Sad thing is, it ‘works’

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/5290910/Angels-and-Demons-Vatican-breaks-silence-to-review-film.html

Are you serious? Did you forget that during the last election, where one candidate had to deflect questions about whether or not he was a (cue the scary music) muslim? Or the bizarre outcry when that muslim congressman got swarn in on the Koran?

Or ask yourself this, in a presidential race between an open atheist/agnostic vs. a practicing Catholic, who would you bet on to win?

As for the movie, it’s a movie, a fiction, a fantasy. Seems even the vatican had no issues with it.

Look for the letters OMG – that means “oh my god”, promoted to denigrate christian and jewish sacred words. It has become common place, and the majority of this generation is probably clueless as to why it is important for the liberal entertainment media to get them to say this.

Look for the promotion of deviant sexuality, and sex outside of marriage. And recreational drugs. The whole rotting philosophy of “if it feels good, do it – touch it, experience it, drink it, inject it.”

Admit it, doesn’t your “fallen away catholic” self find the whole proscription of swearing and overindulging and sex outside of procreation a little rigid? Isn’t the thought of people who might rigidly adhere to these things, a little scary?

So, people understand the whole concept of “EXCERCISING” to develop their muscles, their bodies, for health and long life, as well as attractiveness and alertness.

So why does the general population, after gorging themselves on the US MASS MEDIA, so little understand how to develop moral and spiritual muscle? Or even, why is simple EVEREATING epidemic in the US?

Why is FINANCIAL DISCIPLINE so lacking? Why do we need the government to bail us out of our addiction to high-interest (28 to 30%) credit cards?

You picked one flagrant example of denigrating the CHURCH, and watch the nitwits crawl out of the woodwork to spit on you, not with the force of argument, nor intellectual viewpoints. Rather, they will insult your person, and where necessary say things that are not true or poorly researched.

You get to play “Conservative For A Day”. This is what we conservatives experience when we question why it is necessary to denigrate our country to our enemies. Why it is necessary to hear members of Congress and Senate tell the world that the US approves of our soldiers RAPING AND MURDERING WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN THE DARK OF NIGHT.

You get nervous about those RIGID CHRISTIANS and JEWS and MUSLIMS (what Christiane Amanpour makes fun of, as GOD’s WARRIORS). Don’t many of us feel a need to reject ALL “strong believers”? Wouldn’t we be more comfortable positing a “reasonableness” that has no use for “absolute right and wrong”?

Often, your arguments against US MILITARY, using much the same reasoning as the commenters who will spit on your post above, cause our enemies to use your words, to promote those same feelings AGAINST THE US Military in the field.

Um, perhaps because this is a work of fiction? Did you harbor the same feelings about _Raiders of the Lost Ark_, or to give an example that also claimed a serious research provenance, _Chariots of the Gods_?

I fondly remember a history professor from my university days who was aghast at the inaccuracies of _I, Claudius_, but it certainly didn’t lead him to flights of fancy regarding the state of society’s underpinnings.

I mean, really.

Here is what Pat Buchanan said about “The Da Vinci Code” when it came out which equally applies to its sequal:

If you would know who wields cultural power, ask yourself: Whom is it impermissible to offend? Thus the hoopla attending the release of “The Da Vinci Code,” based on the Dan Brown novel that has sold 7 million copies in the United States, tells us something about whose God it is permissible to mock and whose faith one is allowed to assault.

For what “The Da Vinci Code” says is that Roman Catholicism is a gigantic fraud, that the church has for centuries been perpetrating a monstrous hoax, duping hundreds of millions into believing something it knows is a bald-faced lie. At the novel’s heart lies the contention that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were married, that they had a daughter, that the Vatican has known this and been hiding the descendants of Jesus, that Opus Dei is a secret order whose agents will engage in murder to protect the secret.

Leonardo da Vinci’s painting “The Last Supper” is said to hold the secret, as Jesus is portrayed touching the hand of the youngest apostle, John, who holds the place of honor at his side – and who is, on close inspection, Mary Magdalene.

In Catholic teaching and tradition, the Holy Grail is the chalice that contained the blood of Jesus. In the book, the Holy Grail is Mary Magdalene, carrying the flesh and blood of Jesus in her womb.

If “The Da Vinci Code” is based upon facts, no other conclusion follows than that to be a Catholic is either to be in on this fraud or to be the dupe of those perpetuating it. But if it is fiction, why would Hollywood put out so viciously anti-Catholic a film that can only have the effect of undermining the faith of millions of Christians?

Putting “The Da Vinci Code” on film, with what it alleges about the Catholic Church, is the moral equivalent of making a movie based on the “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” and implying this is the truth about the Jewish plot to control the world. One imagines Ron Howard and Tom Hanks would take a pass on that script.

Like the “Hitler’s Pope” smear of Pius XII, a man who did more than any other to save the Jews in World War II, “The Da Vinci Code” is a Big Lie that, though readily refuted by the facts, will be believed.

But that it will be a box-office smash, that it is the subject of lavish praise in the press, that it is the best-selling novel of the 21st century, tells us we live not just in a post-Christian era, but in an anti-Catholic culture not worth defending or saving, for it is truly satanic.

Source: http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50221