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Devil Is in Fictitious Details in Howard's 'Demons'
Newsmax ^
| 4-27-09
| James Hirsen
Posted on 04/27/2009 11:35:50 AM PDT by 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.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: angelsanddemons; antichristian; danbrown; ronhoward
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posted on
04/27/2009 11:35:50 AM PDT
by
holy joe
To: holy joe
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.
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posted on
04/27/2009 11:42:50 AM PDT
by
razorback-bert
(We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.)
To: holy joe
I heard him on with Bob Costas. He’s a stammering idiot. Um’s Uh’s and Ya’ Knows.
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posted on
04/27/2009 11:43:07 AM PDT
by
massgopguy
(I owe everything to George Bailey)
To: holy joe
I heard him on with Bob Costas. He’s a stammering idiot. Um’s Uh’s and Ya’ Knows.
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posted on
04/27/2009 11:43:16 AM PDT
by
massgopguy
(I owe everything to George Bailey)
To: holy joe
Ron Howard is very disappointing. He has chosen to put himself above man.
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posted on
04/27/2009 11:43:57 AM PDT
by
freekitty
(Give me back my conservative vote.)
To: holy joe
Andy Taylor would be ashamed of Opie, and Aunt Bee would tan his hide and send him to ben without supper.
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posted on
04/27/2009 11:44:16 AM PDT
by
Hacklehead
(Liberalism is the art of taking what works, breaking it, and then blaming conservatives.)
To: holy joe
In the film, the Catholic Church and the Vatican are depicted as secretive, conspiratorial, ignorant, and violent. Sounds like psychological projection to me.
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posted on
04/27/2009 11:46:37 AM PDT
by
pabianice
To: holy joe
I have it on good authority that there are returning Vets who belong to this “church.” {/sarc}
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posted on
04/27/2009 11:47:46 AM PDT
by
JaguarXKE
To: Hacklehead
send him to ben without supper. Ben? Ben Dover? No! Not that!
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posted on
04/27/2009 11:47:59 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(American Revolution II -- overdue)
To: ClearCase_guy
I think they might have ment ‘Bass’ as in Ernest T.
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posted on
04/27/2009 11:53:46 AM PDT
by
Leg Olam
(TOP SECRET! Os plan, 1 invade Poland 2 annex Sudetenland...)
To: holy joe
RON HOWARD has officially JUMPED THE SHARK!!!!!!
To: massgopguy
...and he repeats himself too.
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posted on
04/27/2009 11:59:12 AM PDT
by
stuartcr
(If the end doesn't justify the means...why have different means?)
To: Lee Heggy123
“I think they might have ment Bass as in Ernest T.”
Ernest T was a great character.
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posted on
04/27/2009 12:00:25 PM PDT
by
Hacklehead
(Liberalism is the art of taking what works, breaking it, and then blaming conservatives.)
To: razorback-bert
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.)
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posted on
04/27/2009 12:04:53 PM PDT
by
MeanWestTexan
(Beware Obama's Reichstag Fire.)
To: holy joe
Oh gee! A Hollywood Catholic-bashing movie! Now THERE’S something you don’t see every day.
Oh, wait. Yes you do.
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posted on
04/27/2009 12:28:36 PM PDT
by
IronJack
(=)
To: LeonardFMason
I love the ‘Apollo 13’ movie but I have to look beyond the long list of factual and technical errors in it.
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posted on
04/27/2009 12:30:27 PM PDT
by
TNCMAXQ
To: holy joe
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
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posted on
04/27/2009 12:45:22 PM PDT
by
RobinOfKingston
(Democrats, the party of evil. Republicans, the party of stupid.)
To: holy joe
Hollywood worships evil... How do we know? We see their films.
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posted on
04/27/2009 12:47:36 PM PDT
by
GOPJ
(We sleep safe..because rough men stand ready..to visit violence on those who would do us harm-Orwell)
To: holy joe
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?
To: The Great RJ
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posted on
04/27/2009 2:07:17 PM PDT
by
holy joe
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