Here's the remarks:
Mel Gibson wrote: Well you know, the institution, it was instituted by Christ. You know, but that doesn't mean that it can't be flawed. And there's a school of thought that says 'it isn't what it purports to be anymore, it's moved away from what it was intended to be and what it is'. There's a guy called bishop Vigano who says it's a counterfeit parallel church and it's running an entirely different religion.
He's describing the Catholic church originally being established by Christ but through apostasy, the institution just isn't what it claims to be anymore and is teaching an entirely different religion now than it used to (ask yourself how well the modern LDS institution follows the religion taught by the Book of Mormon, or the cosmic, deep religion taught by Joseph Smith). This literally sounds point for point, concept for concept, what a growing amount of BOOK OF MORMON BELIEVERS feel about the LDS institution. Eerie. Were the LDS institution and the Catholic institution both at one point something established by Christ that have since become salt that has lost its savor?
Remarks start at 3:13 in this video
As the video continues he discusses breaking down moments that give evidence of the Catholic church undergoing theological changing and odd leadership moves that signaled apostasy (and he uses that word) in his opinion.
I can't believe this video. I am impressed with Mel's understanding of spiritual truth:
Mel Gibson wrote: And this is in the next film I'm going to do. I'm going to try and tackle this question. That there are big realms. Spiritual realms. There's good. There's evil. And they are slugging it out. For the souls of mankind. And my question is, why are we even important? Little old, flawed humanity. Why are we important in that process? Where the big realms are slugging it out over us? And I think, there's bigger things at play here. And institutions that purport to touch on the divine are necessarily going to be affected by that slug fest that's going on between good and evil.
Joe wrote:And sometimes good gives up ground.
Mel wrote:Yeah, and maybe not on purpose.