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Posted on 02/06/2009 9:42:41 AM PST by NYer
Newswire/ -- On February 3, Link TV featured a three and a half minute video that mocks Catholicism. The media outlet is available as a basic service in more than 31 million homes that receive direct broadcast satellite TV.
The video, "Divine Food," opens with a priest waking up to a rumbling noise that shakes the religious symbols and statues in his room. He proceeds to a Catholic church where he discovers several wafers near a cup (the implication is that they are consecrated Hosts). In a disrespectful manner, he chews them vigorously and then admonishes the statues that are "looking at him." He falls asleep in the church and when awakened he is asked to say Mass, which he refuses to do. The priest then makes large wafers out of dough and gives the pancake-like substance (which he calls the "Body of Christ") to confused parishioners at Communion. The video ends when he drops the remaining "Hosts" into a dirty aquarium.
Here is what Catholic League president Bill Donohue said about it:
"This video first aired last summer, right after a professor from the University of Minnesota intentionally desecrated the Eucharist. Now it's being shown again. At first we thought this was just another loony attack, but then we found out that Link TV is funded by foundations that support anti-Catholicism. To wit: the Ford Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Wallace Global Fund and George Soros' Open Society Institute all fund Link TV, and all are generous contributors to Catholics for Choice, a notoriously anti-Catholic front group. Worse, of the three co-producers of the video, one of them--ITVS--is funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a public entity.
"So here we have the urbane bigots in the foundation world, and a taxpayer-funded organization, underwriting anti-Catholicism. We will ask Link TV to pull the video. We hope we don't have to do more."
Contact Link TV media head, Julia Pacetti: jpacetti@linktv.org. We'll contact the others involved. To see the video, click here.
It’s certainly vulgar, but isn’t it so far over the top that it defeats its own purpose? Who would believe such tripe?
The people who produced this abomination will find that potential legal problems were the least of their troubles when they assume room temperatures
Who would believe such tripe?
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Mindless Americans that voted for The One.
Thats room temperature, not room temperatures. Ha
As usual, I’m waiting for these intrepid “artists” to mock Islam with the same energy they mock Christianity.
From the comments at the link:
I sent a link to this video to my congressman and two senators along with the comment that I found this video to be "offensive and a flagrant example of hate, ignorance and bigotry. I also pointed out that a co-producer of this video is a firm funded by PBS and asked "Is there something you or Congress can do about the use of taxpayer money to fund religious bigotry? Like everyone else, the 60 million Catholics in this country are going to have their hands full paying for TARP and whatever it takes to get our economy fixed. In the meantime, it's discouraging to see some of our own tax money spent on ridiculing our religious beliefs."...
Try dropping a Koran in an aquarium and see how far you get. This is clearly the work of childish weaklings afraid of going after and offending the really big fish. Hiding behing the comforting belief that Catholics will once again turn the other cheek. Well, I for one, have run out of cheeks. I have just called and cancelled my subscription to WTTW after 12 years of loyal pledge nights.
To read the responses is actually quite encouraging.
>>It’s certainly vulgar, but isn’t it so far over the top that it defeats its own purpose? Who would believe such tripe?<<
My husband, a former Presbyterian says, non-Catholics.
To a Catholic, it is tripe.
To a non-Catholic, it is how Catholics are. Period.
Link runs pro-muslim shows all the time.
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