Oh, man this is good.
Posted on 02/17/2020 1:50:44 PM PST by robowombat
HBO runs yet another anti-Catholic series, remains silent on Muslims FEB 17, 2020 3:00 PM BY ROBERT SPENCER
HBO executives are doubtless congratulating themselves for their “courage,” but it doesn’t take any courage at all to skewer the Catholic Church today. When will they be courageous enough to take on Islam, which, with the rampant human rights abuses occasioned by Sharia, would be fertile ground for a lurid miniseries like The New Pope? Oh, around never.
“Column: HBO — Vicious to Christians, Silent on Muslims,” by Brent Bozell and Tim Graham, NewsBusters, February 15, 2020:
HBO is currently running a dark little miniseries called The New Pope, which is basically a reboot of 2017’s The Young Pope. Both sprang from the mind of Italian creator Paolo Sorrentino, and both are scabrously anti-Catholic, which never hurts you with the elites in Manhattan and Hollywood.
The Young Pope starred Jude Law as the first American pope, painted as so doctrinaire that he wanted to end the sexual abuse problem by drumming all the homosexuals out of the priesthood. A papal aide protested: “It would be a war that would leave the ground littered with corpses, Holy Father. Do you want to know how many corpses would litter the ground?” The pontiff replied “Two-thirds of the clergy.”
Then each man compared the Church to a Third World dictatorship.
The New Pope stars John Malkovich as an effete English pontiff who threatens to shred the Bible and open the Church to gay marriages. The first show ended with Jude Law’s pope having a cardiac arrest. Now he’s in a coma, after three failed heart transplants. First, the Cardinals elected a Franciscan named Francis II, but he proposed selling off all the church’s wealth, so they had him killed. Then they turned to the Malkovich character, who’s named John Paul III. This is a wicked little joke suggesting John Paul I – who died 38 days after his installation in 1978 – was bumped off…
Speaking of pure mischief, it makes you imagine the possibilities of the Bill Maher Channel going off in a different direction, with a mischievous miniseries called The New Ayatollah. Instead of uncorking wild and crazy conspiracy theories in Vatican City, it could be based in Tehran. Iran’s highest religious authorities can all be shown to be corrupted by power and addicted to sex. Hollywood celebrities could drop by to demand the Koran be upgraded.
Somehow the Christians are always caricatured, and the Muslims are never touched. So how brave are these godless show runners?
Why watch that crap?
I can think of some people here on FR who are tuning in!
ahhh the red-green alliance/ red = leftie, green = muslim. Cannot have Christianity in there speaking the Truth.
When HBO first surfaced they ran first run Hollywood movies before vhs tapes got them, which made HBO and Showtime worth watching. They also had few to no adds.
Today it’s crap. Won’t go near it. I’m not paying extra to be brainwashed or watch the mentally ill perform unnatural sex acts.
The Catholic Church has left itself open to criticism in a few areas, but at least Catholics do not go around beheading people, burning them alive or treat their women like slaves.
I think most of America is well aware of this and sick of the left favoring Islam by hiding the truth.
FUHBO.
The media HATE, DETEST and LOATHE the Catholic morality...
--divorce unlimited,
--marriage X times [Liz Taylor was married 8 times, though she married Burton twice.]
--screen nudity of all but the VERY bare essentials. In Sweden there are NO holds bared. There is a market for filth.
--promiscuity
--foulest language
--homosexuality promoted
--sex orgies
The Catholic Church hasn't changed its morality. So it continues to make enemies in the film and porno industries.
You're not aware of history I see.
Would you be thinking of those Roman Catholics who daily post against their own denomination and pope?
As the little boy in Night of the Hunter says to Preacher: “don’t you ever sleep?” Lol.
My clock shows 7:34 pm est.
Oh go away before someone drops a house on you.
There's a big difference between the Catholic Church and Jorge Bergoglio. One can easily criticize the latter without criticizing the former.
They're one and the same.
Perhaps OMCET has a different hierarcy...oh, wait....only one member.
Oh this has made my night.
I might as well have been outside calling:
Here, boy, here boy.
It was you who first posted to me today. on FR.
Here, Fido. Sit. Good boy.
Hey, do you blame them? Taking on Muslims can be dangerous to your health . . .
Oh, man this is good.
Amen.
Because it’s weirdly fun to watch. I like Law and Malkovitch.
Sometimes satire is tough to watch when it hits close to home.
They are not popes, it’s not the Vatican, and they are actors. My experience with our parish priest is not influenced by a TV show.
Folks have to stop looking to be offended.
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