Catholicism Tarred By Christian Film

[drafdog]

When making films, it is common to use the most high profile church for the depiction of a church scene. For this reason the most frequently shown churches in film and television are Catholic churches. Since the presence of a religious element in the film is most often favorable, the Catholic church gets a great deal of positive publicity from the film and television industries. Why you would get so excited over a single film which shows a couple of less than perfect priests (none of us is perfect anyway) is beyond me. Go to church this Sunday and thank God for all the times the Church has been positively portrayed on the screen.

Matthew

 

[zerocrossing]

Hi, zerocrossing. I didn’t mean to not respond to you, I just didn’t see your post.

OK… Why do you hate the Yankees? (Hey, that was my 1st smiley thingey! I figured out how to get them, I think)

Gotcha, zerocrossing. I rarely follow it anymore, but I had a huge crush on Bucky Dent in the 7th grade…
Back to the thread, it can be scary when you see the amount of anti-Catholicism out there.

Bucky Dent… Yeah that was a great team. You killed us in the Series.

Yeah, the anti-Catholicism is scary. But it’s been around for centuries. Gothic novels were also an anti-Catholic form of entertainment back in the 18th/19th centiries. Mad monks and everything! So it predates cinema. The Church manages though to survive! (Chick tracts are like a post-literate version of Gothic anti-Catholicism).

 

[retrovert]

It’s the same old story. Satan would’nt be interested in attacking the Catholic Church if there wasn’t something good there to attack.

 

[Steeltemplar]

You know, there is always a lot of finger waggling in the direction of Catholics whenever they assert the truth of our faith. Yet at the same time, I don’t see the too many of those same critics going after a movie like this.

Where are all those folks who have time to tell Catholics what is charitable?

Or maybe there is a double standard.

 

[rebusrms]

I for one will be telling anyone I see not to view the movie. Even though my Protestant parents will eat this alive. I’m just glad there are organizations like the Catholic League to fight this nonsense.

PS Oriole fan from the 70’s we have a few things we hate about the Yankees as well.:tiphat:

 

[Digitonomy]

It’s the same old story. Satan would’nt be interested in attacking the Catholic Church if there wasn’t something good there to attack.

I think I’ve heard a Muslim make a similar argument.:ehh:

 

[james_dillaplai]

If you want to see alot of Anti-Catholicism pick up a pace ( Its a fundamentalist workbook for Christian schools)

 

[rwoehmke]

We are the only faith worth attacking.

Could you make compelling and interesting movie attacking say, a Baptist minister? A Presbyterian? I doubt it. They all teach different things, they take no moral or social stands like Catholicism, unlike priests, many of their ministers work a second job, and their “ordination” and theological training is questionable, they have no Magisterium, Pope, or any other heirarchy worth attacking, there denominations have no sense of history dating back to Jesus Christ, and they are for the most part independent of one another. So how would you even attack that?

So the Catholic Church is an easy mark that stands out from all the others. I look at attacks like this as a badge of honor…

Have we forgotten some movies of the past? Elmer Gantry being on example. Seems like Evangelical tent preachers have taken their lumps as well. Today it is evidently our turn.