Posted on 05/10/2006 5:14:30 AM PDT by jome
09 May 2006 04:38
A Catholic group on Tuesday called on Christians to starve themselves to death in protest at the release of The Da Vinci Code at cinemas in India, as others burned copies of the novel.
The Catholic Secular Forum said it hoped thousand of people would attend a protest on Wednesday in Mumbai to burn effigies of Dan Brown, the author of the best-selling novel.
"It's to show the extent that our feelings have been hurt," said the group's general secretary, Joseph Dias, speaking of the "fast-unto-death" call if the government fails to take action.
He denied the hunger strike was irresponsible. "It's a more Christian way of doing things, rather than pulling down things and tearing them up," he said.
The film, scheduled for global release on May 19, will be dubbed into four languages and will be distributed across India, a spokesperson for Sony Pictures said.
1000 of people gathered for a protest on Tuesday in Mumbai and burnt pages of the book, but were prevented by police from burning an effigy of Brown, an Agence France-Presse photographer said.
The controversial film stars Tom Hanks and is based on Brown's best-selling novel. It explores the idea that Jesus Christ married Mary Magdalene and had children whose descendants are alive today.
Christian churches have condemned The Da Vinci Code as an attack on their faith and an aide of Pope Benedict XVI has called it a "perversely anti-Christian novel".
About 2% of India's 1,1-billion people are Christians.
The Catholic group also called for a second film, Tickle My Funny Bone, to be banned saying it told the story of a "sexy nun," according to reports. -- AFP
(Hint: Starving yourself to death is considered a no-no by the Catholic Church.)
Well....he was wrong. See that behind you? It's the line and you're waaaaayyyyyy past it.
Are Mr Dias and all the others who have called for this suicidal action going to participate?
The history of the Catholic Church is littered with heresies, and this is not even a new one, it's just a rehash of Gnosticism.
In the long run this will probably pique the interest of a lot of materialistic pagans in the truth about Christianity and Catholicism who never would have cared otherwise.
But I understand what you are getting at.
So they're going to burn books and starve themselves to death over a novel based on a French forgery. I suppose 1500 years after the Church burned Cathars and Gnostics alive for similar heresies this can be counted as progress.
It's just a novel, and now a movie. What is wrong with these people?
Ping-a-roo!
"So the Cathari come out to protest Dan Brown? A group of heretics sets themselves against an apostate? Fascinating!
(Hint: Starving yourself to death is considered a no-no by the Catholic Church.)"
On the good side, they aren't lopping off heads, burning buildings or killing people.
That's encouraging. I thought it was 1%.
And silence didn't deliver the Church from them.
Brown is promoting heretical and blasphemous beliefs which must be refuted and repudiated.
Indisputably a good thing.
I'm trying not to giggle here. The Islamofascists react to cartoons by threatening slaughter. These guys react to Brown's BS by threatening slow suicide. That IS a different ethos, isn't it?
Brown's blasphemous evil should not be repaid with the evil of suicide. Two wrongs don't make a right.
See my message #2. I agree. We should stick around and show what nonsense it is. THEN we can giggle.
You're giving his book far more power than it deserves. Nothing in it is new, those stories have been around for centuries and survived attempts by the early church to wipe them out. They'll be around for another 2 thousand years and I doubt they'll suddenly gain new power just becasue of a novel.
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