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I'm glad they're speaking out. A shame slander/libel laws don't apply to organizations, though I suppose it's best they don't.
Opie has gotten his head full of liberal Hollywierd mush.
"to tell someone not to go see the film is an act of militancy and militancy generates hatred and violence."
Wow, now the Catholic Church cant tell people not to go see a film without generating hatred and violence.? pleaseeeeeeeee
Nice
Opie's the one who is generating hatred and violence.
The entire key to this controversy right there! That is what you are defending, when you defend this trash.
OK - got my flame retardant suit on - here goes.
Do you think those hundreds of thousands of people, in the history of the Church, who did dare to voice their opinions and became victims - dead - who had their "last right taken away," for their "offense" are looking down and saying: "hmmm - good thing marshmallowing people at the stake isn't allowed now."
I would like to have seen this level of condemnation over their pedophile priests - whom they have known about and protected for generations and only took some action after being forced too. (There were many "victims of an offense" - little victims - for decades and decades...and they were not protected. Only the perpetrators and the Church were protected, with the perps simply shifted to other, unsuspecting parishes.)
Two things: "People who live in glass houses..." and
"As ye have done until the least of these, my children...
Hollywood hates Christians, ESPECIALLY Catholics.
And Ron Howard is one amazingly arrogant little hypocrite is he not?
IMHO Opus Dei is right on, except they should include all Christians. All Christians are offended and insulted by blasphemy, slander, and greed. I am disgusted with Sony and the debased hollywood crowd.
'to deny the right to see the film is a fascist act," and also "to tell someone not to go see the film is an act of militancy and militancy generates hatred and violence."
Did anyone in Hollywood have the courage to say that about the right to see the Mohammed cartoons? No??
Any of the networks show the cartoons in defiance of a fascist attitude? No??
Anyone in Hollywood say that about Mel Gibson's film??
No??
Anybody in Hollywood care about free speech if there isn't money involved? No??
Sheesh.
FMCDH(BITS)
I guess Ron would have a problem with parents telling their children what they can't do. He also may have a serious problem with authority in general. Sure sounds like it.
Cool!
It is Opie vs Opus Dei.
Opus Day will long outlive Opie.
My wife brings me the latest action/adventure/slasher books from the library when they first come out. I read DaVinci Code the day it came out. I thought it was a ho-hum book with a religious chip on the shoulder. I saw the ending coming.
Then a few months later, I see this thing has shot to the top of the lists. I was amazed. I have read many books better than it. The only thing that keeps it going is the Magdalene angle. And that is nothing new, either.
My guess is that it has been pushed pretty hard to get where it is. It will be interesting to see how the movie plays out.
The film sounds like an offense to anyone who values the Bible as spiritual truth, no matter what they call themselves.