The Church must be VERY insecure to feel threatened by a work of fiction... but then again, the whole Catholic Church was built on a work of fiction.
Posted on 05/07/2006 8:05:47 AM PDT by dhuffman@awod.com
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - In the latest Vatican broadside against "The Da Vinci Code", a leading cardinal says Christians should respond to the book and film with legal action because both offend Christ and the Church he founded.
Cardinal Francis Arinze, a Nigerian who was considered a candidate for pope last year, made his strong comments in a documentary called "The Da Vinci Code-A Masterful Deception."
Arinze's appeal came some 10 days after another Vatican cardinal called for a boycott of the film. Both cardinals asserted that other religions would never stand for offences against their beliefs and that Christians should get tough.
"Christians must not just sit back and say it is enough for us to forgive and to forget," Arinze said in the documentary made by Rome film maker Mario Biasetti for Rome Reports, a Catholic film agency specializing in religious affairs.
"Sometimes it is our duty to do something practical. So it is not I who will tell all Christians what to do but some know legal means which can be taken in order to get the other person to respect the rights of others," Arinze said.
"This is one of the fundamental human rights: that we should be respected, our religious beliefs respected, and our founder Jesus Christ respected," he said, without elaborating on what legal means he had in mind.
A transcript of the documentary, due to be screened in Rome later this month just before the release of the film version of the best-selling book at the Cannes Film Festival, was made available to Reuters.
The book, written by Dan Brown, has sold more than 40 million copies.
The only thing he states in his introduction as fact is that the Priory of Scion, Opus Dei, and the artwork in the novel all exist. And they do.
No, that would the people who lived after Christ died liars.
>>Read this and the blasphemous novel that presents itself as truth will be debunked...conspiracy by conspiracy. <<
While that is an interesting web page I don't feel a need to have a work of fiction debunked. I've read it recently - its quite well written - I would even says its Harry Potter quality. And I certainly came away with a more negative impression of Opus Dei.
But there was nothing in there to challenge or cause doubt in my faith.
The Church must be VERY insecure to feel threatened by a work of fiction... but then again, the whole Catholic Church was built on a work of fiction.
And I certainly came away with a more negative impression of Opus Dei.
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It apparently affected your understanding of Opus Dei...the stuff Brown writes is false...and blasphemous to Christians.
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It apparently affected your understanding of Opus Dei...the stuff Brown writes is false...and blasphemous to Christians.<<
It did but not because of the plot but what they told about the rules and rituals of Opus Dei. That didn't make it blasphemous.
*rolls eyes*
Where exactly are you wanting this conversation to go?
Are you just ina trollish mood today? :P
Do you have a point, other than that you don't like the Church?
the whole Catholic Church was built on a work of fiction.
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How are things in Pakistan Osama?
It did but not because of the plot but what they told about the rules and rituals of Opus Dei.
BLASPHEMY! BLASPHEMY!
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Those are the lies.<<
Lying about opus Dei is not blasphemy.
The Church is defending itself from lies Osama.
I agree...they are lies. The rest of Brown's garbage is blasphemy.
Well, cute.. how typical of a Christian. Someone disagrees with you and you call them "Osama"?
How who will defend the world against the lies promoted by the Church for 2000 years?
You said exactly what I am thinking, so I just posted your words, again.
"Even if I knew who they were what could I do?"
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no one can defeat the Illuminati.
(actually, the illuminati are one of the greatest of the paranoid fantasies on the internet. they were probably behind the jfk assassination as well as the sinking of the titanic. all other conspiratorial groups are secretly being manipulated by them.)
Who controls the British crown? Who keeps the metric system down? We do! We do! Who leaves Atlantis off the maps? Who keeps the Martians under wraps? We do! We do! Who holds back the electric car? Who makes Steve Gutenberg a star? We do! We do! Who robs cave fish of their sight? Who rigs every Oscar night? We do! We do!
"Similarly, I doubt many churchgoers would watch portography. :)
Boy, I wouldn't want to be caught watching that! ;o)"
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it will make you go BLIND and rot in HELL!
(or maybe it makes you go blonde--sumfin like that, anyway.)
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