Devil Is in Fictitious Details in Howard's 'Demons'

Newsmax ^ | 4-27-09 | James Hirsen

[holy joe]

Ron Howard has been doing his best Opie impression while running around claiming that his upcoming movie, “Angels & Demons,” is not anti-Christian or anti-Catholic.

Howard is in denial and perhaps a bit distracted by the box-office.

In the film, the Catholic Church and the Vatican are depicted as secretive, conspiratorial, ignorant, and violent.

[razorback-bert]

He (Brown) also claims some “facts” in “Angels and Demons.” For example: “Christians got Holy Communion from the Aztecs” and “got the name for ‘Satan’ from the Islamic language, [sic] which they considered dirty.”

[massgopguy]

I heard him on with Bob Costas. He’s a stammering idiot. Um’s Uh’s and Ya’ Knows.

[massgopguy]

I heard him on with Bob Costas. He’s a stammering idiot. Um’s Uh’s and Ya’ Knows.

[freekitty]

Ron Howard is very disappointing. He has chosen to put himself above man.

[Hacklehead]

Andy Taylor would be ashamed of Opie, and Aunt Bee would tan his hide and send him to ben without supper.

[pabianice]

In the film, the Catholic Church and the Vatican are depicted as secretive, conspiratorial, ignorant, and violent.

Sounds like psychological projection to me.

[JaguarXKE]

I have it on good authority that there are returning Vets who belong to this “church.” {/sarc}

[ClearCase_guy]

send him to ben without supper.

Ben? Ben Dover? No! Not that!

[Leg Olam]

I think they might have ment ‘Bass’ as in Ernest T.

[LeonardFMason]

RON HOWARD has officially JUMPED THE SHARK!!!!!!

[stuartcr]

...and he repeats himself too.

[Hacklehead]

“I think they might have ment ‘Bass’ as in Ernest T.”

Ernest T was a great character.

[MeanWestTexan]

Of course you know this, but for quick rebuttal:

Christians got Holy Communion from the Aztecs”

Good trick, in that communion existed long before 1492, when Columbus sailed the ocean blue (and Europeans stumbled onto the heart-carving Aztecs).

In reality, of course, Communion stems from the Last Supper, and, before that, the Passover Seder meal itself.

. . “got the name for ‘Satan’ from the Islamic language, [sic] which they considered dirty.”

Not sure what "Islamic language" is, but Islam, again was created some 600 years after Christianity and its writings, making this impossible. (There is a "Shaitan" in Islamic writings (who is pretty much the same temptor), but mohammed clearly was borrowing from earlier Jewish and Christian writers, not the other way around.)

In reality, the name "Satan" is from the Hebrew "Satan'el" or "Ha-Satan" which was an angel whose job it was to tempt man -- then turn around and accuse the sinner on high. (A slight distinction from the Christian concept, in that devil is not "in rebellion," but rather doing his rather nasty job -- albeit a job in which he excels and enjoys a bit too much.)

[IronJack]

Oh gee! A Hollywood Catholic-bashing movie! Now THERE’S something you don’t see every day.

Oh, wait. Yes you do.

[TNCMAXQ]

I love the ‘Apollo 13’ movie but I have to look beyond the long list of factual and technical errors in it.

[RobinOfKingston]

In the film, the Catholic Church and the Vatican are depicted as secretive, conspiratorial, ignorant, and violent.

From the online Websters: projection

6 ... b: the attribution of one's own ideas, feelings, or attitudes to other people or to objects ; especially : the externalization of blame, guilt, or responsibility as a defense against anxiety

[GOPJ]

Hollywood worships evil... How do we know? We see their films.

[The Great RJ]

Gee I wonder if Opie would make a movie depicting Islam as secretive, conspiratorial, ignorant, and violent or smuggle cameras into Mecca to make parts of the film?

[holy joe]

He’d lose his head.