[extropy-chat] Passion: If Mel Gibson was really a Christian

[Daniel Matthews]

On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 12:28 pm, extropy-chat-request at lists.extropy.org wrote:
> Message: 4
> Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 10:33:45 -0800 (PST)
> From: Mike Lorrey <mlorrey at yahoo.com>
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> What makes you think he won't? Do you even know Mel's personal story,
> about why he is as devout as he is and why he made the movie? Turns out
> he was not always so handsome as he allegedly is. It's all plastic
> surgery, as he was once beaten to an inch of death by a gang, had no
> face left, and was nothing but a circus freak. He met a priest, who
> helped him get the best plastic surgeon in Australia to help him for
> free. The movie "The Man Without a Face" is based on his life.

That is not true at all!

He was mauled by a giant wombat that was owned by a bloke who was angry with 
Mel for not sharing a can of beer with him one Saturday, at a barbecue, after 
a football match.