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How is Opus Dei whining about the Da Vinci Code any different from liberals whining about the Passion of the Christ? IMO, both groups look pretty silly...

Let's just postulate that I'm planning on making a movie about you - in it you will be portrayed as a self destructive lesbian, and your mother will be shown as a crack whore. I will introduce the film my stating that everything that is about to be shown is true...

...but claim it's just fiction when challenged.

Based on your above comment I have no doubt that you would protest not at all - it would just look silly...

By the way, I would do no such thing, of course; you are probably a fine upstanding person (the fact that you are at FreeRepublic indicates above average intelligence) and it would be wrong to slander someone for money.

As long as you are asking for differences, those that protested the Passion stated that the film was a slander against Jews (it wasn't) and that it would lead to pograms (it didn't) and that the film indicated the need for Christians to rewrite the New Testaments and abandon their false anti-semetic faith (it isn't and we didn't).

Critics of the Code note that the film is a slander against the Catholic Church in particular and Christianity in general - which it is - that is based on a combination of old Gnostic B.S., new feminist B.S. and as many hoary old anti Catholic myths that can be packed into a book/film at one time without making it look like Jack Chick was the head writer (true), and that argues that Christians abandon their false anti-feminist faith (it isn't and we won't)

I think that sums up both differences and similarities in the criticism

"look pretty silly..."

It's not funny when someone is beaten and/or murdered because of such influence. Recall that the cartoons that upset so many Muslims did in fact influence violence in Nigeria against Christians who had nothing to do with the cartoons printed by non-Christians in Europe.

"Satan" means "accuser". Whether it's a thoroughly conceived lie or a slip of gossip, it produces ill.

When you become a victim of gossip you won't have the same opinion about lies. Being the victim of constant accusations (that aren't true) results in a wildly chaotic environment.

This is an example of how people violently react to lies and gossip in another African country.

Sierra Leone

Why is this little girl the victim of violence? Because someone got angry over a diabolically inspired lie. Maybe in this particular case it was over a girl's best friend (diamonds), but the lies of what defines happiness don't really matter to the little girl, or us, or Happiness.

Why hands and feet? Because we become the Hands and Feet of Jesus Christ to do The Father's Divine Will.

Promoting such "fiction" as this present Dan Brown work as entertainment in our part of the world will have tremendously disastrous real world consequences elsewhere.

People walk pass burnt dead bodies on the ground in a street in Onitsha, Nigeria, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2006. Gangs of rioters armed with machetes and shotguns poured through the streets of the mainly Christian southern city of Onitsha on Wednesday as the death toll from days of Christian-Muslim violence across Nigeria rose to at least 76. (Photo: AP / George Osodi)

The lies are "silly", but it's not really funny. I wish people would change their opinion on what they consider entertainment because this is murder. All participating and/or defending such work are playing a diabolic roll. Victims of the ensuing violence...and yes, there WILL BE VIOLENCE because of this movie...should considering wrongful death law suits against this satanic "entertainment" industry. We now have plenty of evidence of what lies bring to the world. Denying complicity and lack of apology for reconciliation most likely denies personal Salvation. Sony has a lot of money to lose and there ought to be plenty of lawyers representing the victims' survivors if even if just one innocent person is murdered over this publicized and popularized heresy.

The mastermind of murder carries the heavier burden of guilt for causing others to sin.

John 9: 11
Mark 9: 42
Revelations 18: 21-24

IMO, both groups look pretty silly...

Unfortunately those of us in the Catholic religion have been doormats for so long, I find it refreshing that some are willing to fight for what they believe in. To say that the Church has been living a lie for 2000 years is a bit over the top. (According to Dan Browne's book. ) It wouldn't be so bad if the masses did research and understood positions. Unfortunately we know that's not the case. How else do you explain Algore actually even competing in the 2000 election, or John Kerry for that matter. ; )

I would rather have people stand up for something, rather than be apathetic.

I appreciate your candor though.

God Bless!

How is Opus Dei whining about the Da Vinci Code any different from liberals whining about the Passion of the Christ? IMO, both groups look pretty silly...

The Passion of the Christ was faithful to Scripture, the Da Vinci Code isn't but is trying to pass as real:

People who ask this question usually have not read the page of The Da Vinci Code titled Fact, where the author, Dan Brown, asserts that «all descriptions of [..]documents, and secret rituals in this novel are accurate» and are based specifically on the fact that «in 1975 Paris’ Bibliothèque Nationale discovered parchments, known as Les Dossiers Secrets» which reveal the story of the Priory of Sion.
There is no doubt that both Les Dossiers secrets and the parchments are false documents, compiled in the year 1967, and all the people involved in the falsification have admitted it, even after a few years had passed. Gérard de Sède, who published them for the first time in his book L’Or de Rennes, in a book published twenty years later defined them as «apocryphal», inspired by a «market sensationalism»

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How is Opus Dei whining about the Da Vinci Code any different from liberals whining about the Passion of the Christ? IMO, both groups look pretty silly...

Uhhhh, let's see. Opus Dei is protesting a vicious and direct attack on them and the Catholic Church based on bigotry and lies. The Passion of the Christ attacked no one (ok, if you're a Roman or a first century member of the Sanhedrin, you can be offended) but portrayed a Truth embraced by billions around the world.

And you can't tell the difference?