Dirty Dancing Apologist

I guess Catholicism wasn’t really compatible with the Hollywood lifestyle.

Beware any Hollywood star (or many people in general) who wear their religion on their sleeves…they are usually in for a public fall a few months or years later.

Most of these Hollywood actors and actresses have some real demons haunting their souls…being in the limelight as they are it is hard to stay grounded in the realities of life.

Take Mel Gibson as a recent example. The guy has been haunted for years by alcoholism and a bad temper, and it looks like it has reared its ugly head for Gibson yet again. It doesn’t make him a ‘bad Catholic’ but it does make him human like the rest of us, and it is obvious that he is running from something that haunts his personal life.

The problem is when guys like Gibson hold themselves (as he has in the past) to being on a higher plateau than the rest of us in humanity…the ‘fall from grace’ is that much greater. Gibson spent the better part of a few months (when the Passion came out) vehemently denying his anti-Sematism and alcohol problems…yet the fire water seems to have shown Gibson’s true thoughts.

I pray for these people in Hollywood, the deck is usually stacked against them from the beginning.

Don’t be too hard on Swayze. He’s at least clued-in enough to realize that the sacred should be treated as sacred, which is more than can be said for most of the Hollywood crowd…

At the risk of sounding like a conspiracy theorist, it’s almost as if the entertainment industry is softing up its audience for some hoped-for future condemnation of anything even remotely smacking of religion. It’s the “opiate of the people,” don’t you know. Far from it; it tends to give people a backbone to fight back. Why else would so many dictatorships—most notably, Communist ones—outlaw religion?

At any rate, add my voice to the others who are giving kudos to Swayze. He’s seen the elephant.

..sniff..
Gosh, Chris, that just brought a tear to my eye. How beautiful. (/sarcasm off)