"60,057 Catholics Reject Da Vinci Code"

[Bluebear]

NOT 61,293. NOT 59,754. 60,057. Please get it correct.
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Contact: John Horvat, The American TFP, 717-225-7147 ext. 227, [e-mail]

HANOVER, Penn., March 30 /Christian Wire Service/ -- The American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property TFP and its America Needs Fatima campaign have collected 60,057 signatures against the upcoming The Da Vinci Code movie. The organization is confident it will gather at least 100,000 protest letters and e-mails before May 19, when the blasphemous film is scheduled to hit theaters across the country.

"As faithful sons and daughters of the Church, it’s our duty to defend the honor of Our Lord whenever He is blasphemed," said America Needs Fatima director Robert Ritchie. "And since The Da Vinci Code is a public blasphemy, our reparation and protest should be public."

The TFP’s web site (www.tfp.org) invites readers to sign an online protest petition addressed to Columbia Pictures, producers of The Da Vinci Code movie.

"When the Romans fed innocent Christians to the lions and watched them get torn to shreds, they claimed it was entertainment. Today, persecution against the Faith continues in the form of blasphemy," Ritchie remarked. "The Da Vinci Code attacks the Divinity of Christ, the Gospel, the Papacy and the holy mysteries of the Faith – and yet it too is being called entertainment."

http://www.earnedmedia.org/tfp0330.htm

[Dogmudgeon]

Persecution?

It's a movie, fer Christ's sake!

--p!

[Dogmudgeon]

1. Persecution?

It's a movie, fer Christ's sake!

--p!

[catnhatnh]

26. Yep-it IS persecution....

and as a Catholic I REFUSE to pay that much for popcorn....

[maveric]

2. ITS FICTION!!! Dan Brown even says so!

You find it in the FICTION SECTION!
:grr: These people have to get a fucking life!

[Roland99]

38. How else can they claim persecution & seek to challenge their faith

and feel "success" at having done so?

[Hissyspit]

3. Whatever. Blasphemy - a concept designed to

squelch all non-orthodox dissent and control human behavior and thought.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

4. One man's entertainment is

another's blasphemy, I guess.

[Supply Side Jesus]

5. I believe the same number rejected DOGMA....

That was a terrifying movie with the rubber suited poop monster and all.

How do they expect to be taken seriously with comparisons of Vinci Code to feeding christains to lions?

[MadMaddie]

6. It's amazing to me that they are so up in arms about

The Divinci Code...I am reading the book now....and I am surprised to say that it is plausible....power, church and money....put those in the same pot and anything is possible....

[notadmblnd]

21. That's probably it... Dan Brown hit too close to home

nt

[Deep13]

7. If it was wrong, one would be enough.

Aaaargh! Alternate versions of our mythology! Don't believe that fiction, believe our fiction!

[sharp_stick]

8. I'm sure that will piss of the producers

Yet more people to go and see the film. I went to see Last Temptation of Christ for the simple reason that church groups protested it. I was young, had no real interest in the story but man it was fun to piss of the church groups. I also went to a Marilyn Manson concert for pretty much the same reason

[CottonBear]

9. It's just a freaking movie based on a work of fiction, people.

Geez. As the Republicans like to say: Get over it. Don't go see it. I didn't see that Mel Gibson movie so you can simply not go to see this one. :grr:

[Gabi Hayes]

13. a movie based on a work of fiction based on a book of mythology

find it in the library under the 500s

[Gabi Hayes]

10. 3,645,723,626 earthlings reject Bible

a billion more: "not so sure"

[Katherine Brengle]

34. best. response. ever.

:hi:

[sinkingfeeling]

11. Can't wait til the movie gets out! If seeing a movie is an act of

persecution, count me in!

[cynatnite]

18. I got a free movie pass I'm saving it for

Will do my part to persecute :evilgrin:

[northofdenali]

12. Which only leaves 99,000,039,943 who didn't.

Idiots.

[Coexist]

14. 17,000,000 people who purchased copies disagree

Including this former-Catholic.

[cynatnite]

15. Blasphemy equals feeding christians to the lions???

Geez, when will they quit the 'I'm being persecuted' bullshit? Seems like most of these christian types are in a perpetual state of victimhood.

[demigoddess]

16. you notice they don't complain about murder, rape, and theft being

portrayed in the movies all the time. And those are mortal sins, aren't they?

[gademocrat7]

17. As a Catholic, I feel these people are misguided.

The Da Vinci Code was a great read and I can't wait to see the movie.Perhaps if this group could go volunteer for Catholic Relief Services, their time would be more productive. Real life crisis supersedes fiction.

[Neil Lisst]

19. Are those the assholes who bugged me when I saw Temptation of Christ?

The Da Vinci Code makes more sense than most Catholic doctrine.

[Devlzown]

20. You'd think they would realize by now

that they're just generating free publicity for the film.

[0007]

27. Absolutely!!

An imaginative creation that does not represent actuality but has been invented. And the nut cases go batty....

[MADem]

39. You have to wonder, cynically, if there isn't a back end deal already

made between the church and the owners of the film rights!!!

You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours! Display enough faux outrage, and up the attendance figures!

Back in the day, the way you knew which movies were the good ones was when the priest told ya NOT to go see it!!

[Ian David]

22. Maybe the people who organized the riots for the Mohamed cartoon will help

[MadHound]

23. Geez, give me a break!

It isn't persecution, it's a book, got that? How can a book persecute you? Is it jumping up and smacking you upside the head? Is it repressing your expression of your religion? Is it preventing you from going to Mass?

No, it is a book, OK.

I'm sick and tired of these people playing the persecution card whenever the least little thing upsets them. This cult of victimhood is sick and twisted, and in the long run unhealthy for those who participate in it. If your religion is as strong as you claim, then it certainly doesn't need to be protected from a book, or a movie, that bases it's premise on some something that calls your religion into question. Is your faith that weak? Is your belief that fragile? Is your faith so small that it is threatened by a book or a movie?

If so, then I pity you. If not, good for you. In either case, there is no need to play the persecution card. Call me when you are being fed to the lions again. Then and only then will I believe that you are being persecuted. Until then, all you are doing is annoying people, and pumping up the bottom line of this movie.

[trotsky]

24. Blasphemy: a victimless crime.

This is fantastic, and I'm sure everyone associated with the movie LOVES it, because controversy sells. Just like The Last Temptation, people who might not have gone to the movie in the first place will do so to see what all the fuss is about.

:rofl:

[Ian David]

28. Your Jesus is so fat... that when he sits around the church...

he really sits around the church!

They should just fucking grow-up.

What kind of pathetic gawd needs those weasels to fight his or her or its battles for them?

Hey, Catholics! Your Jesus rides bicycles without seats!

There, I said it.

What you gonna do about it?

Playground antics on a global scale become wars of genocide.

Killing someone over religion is as stupid as starting a brawl at a sci-fi convention of Kirk vs Piccard.

[Ian David]

25. Hey, I sent a protest letter!

First Name: Jesus
Last Name: Christ
Email: [e-mail]

What a fucking waste of time. Shouldn't they be feeding the hungry or clothing the naked instead of wasting their time on this? Maybe they should tend to the plank in their own eyes.

[TlalocW]

29. I agree!

Now let's get on to making a documentary about pedophile priests and the Catholic church's constant shuffling them around to different parishes, hiding their assets when sued, etc.

TlalocW

[adriennui]

30. it's a movie. nothing more....nothing less.

their faith must be kinda shaky if they're so nervous about a fictional work.

[MadMaddie]

32. You are exactly right....and perhaps just perhaps it hit's close

the the truth in some ways...

[Ian David]

33. I don't blame them. I felt the same way about Star Wars Episode 3

Damn that Jar-Jar Binks!

BLASPHEMY!

[Ian David]

31. Spending the $7 to see this that I saved not seeing Passion of the Christ

[Cleita]

35. No surprise. It destroys the dogma that is the foundation of

the Church.

[gatorboy]

36. It only proves that your average right winger Christian cannot read.

This book has been on the best seller list for three years and now they get insulted? Oy!

On a side note, I didn't think the book was very good. The premise had been done before (And better in the Preacher comic book series), plus the set up was just like his first book, "Angels and Demons" As far as thrillers go, it wasn't very thrilling.

[sinkingfeeling]

37. Well, let's see there are 295 milion Americans and 24% are Catholics,

so that's 70.8 million and they got a whole 60,057 to sign the petition. What is that, like .09%?

[GRLMGC]

40. Exactly what I was going to say

They swear that's such a huge number, hahaha

[VelmaD]

41. They really are afraid of women...

even when it's couched as fiction they can't bear the thought that *gasp* Jesus may have actually loved and respected a woman.

[lovuian]

42. Well Millions don't and most of them are catholics...

I'll be seeing it more than one time ...

Blasphemy... where was the outrage when they made Mary Magdelene a prostitute... One of the great disciples of Jesus and they character assaulted and demeaned her...

Evidentally this is a last gasp from the patriarchal church...