I am so tired Hollywood and their AntiCatholicism

[auhsoj88]

I am so tired of the Media and Hollywood’s anti-Catholicism. It is impossible to go a full week without hearing a soundbyte here and there on film, news, and television, on the “infamous evil empire”.

I was watching Million Dollar Baby this weekend with a family friend who attends Churches of Christ, and in one of the scenes one character got scoffed with profanity by a Priest. The family friend was repulsed by a cursing Priest. Obviously the friend reacted just the way Hollywood wanted him too!

Several winters ago there was a movie called 40 days and 40 nights. I did not watch the film but the plot was simple. A guy sho supposed to be Catholic stops fornicating for 40 days and forty nights. Not coincidently, Hollywood released this film during Lent season, go Figure!

In 03, a Priest in my local area was charged with raping a 16 year old girl, which later turned out to be a false charge and he was aquitted. At the same time a Pentacostal Minister was charged with molesting two of his own daughters. He was found guilty. However the local newspaper did a good job of covering the front page every other day with only the Priest case while the Pentacostal Minster got no more that 100 words in the back of the paper!

My anger for antiCatholicism has gotten to the point were I am afraid of going to the movies with non-catholic Christians for fear of seeing this garbage! Am I the only one that feels this way!!! How do you guys deal with it. Advice??

God bless

 

[Dasher]

Auhsoj88,

I’m fed up with Hollywood too. It is getting to the point now that I just try to avoid anything that has to do with it. The thing that began really upsetting me was the absolute glorification of sex and violence in movies. The movies with the most violence and sex (oh, and drugs and corruption) do the best. It really makes me question our society. What really makes me mad is that these actors are getting millions of dollars for these movies and are almost deified by the media. They are always ranked as the “50 Most Beautiful People,” the “50 Most Important People”, etc. And why??? Because they kill and have sex on screen. Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie (sp??) are worth about as much to me as spit in the wind.
I’m not certain if Hollywood reflects our culture, or drives it, or both? All I know is that they have literally sold their souls to the Devil. So let them be anti-Catholic. It is all the more reason for me to close the door on the whole industry.

(Can you tell you hit a nerve in me???)

 

[On_my_way]

Last night my family and I went to the Ordination and Installation of Bishop Larry Silva in Hawaii. It was so awesome. It was our first witness to any type of Ordination. It was shown live on a local network in Hawaii and all I could think about was other religions bad mouthing it at home. I know that not all people are like that but I couldn’t get it out of my head. The bad part of it is that I believe some of my own family members did the bad mouthing. I try not to watch the TV altogether. I may read the newspaper (Sports page) but I try not to get caught up with what society feels about the Catholic Church because it will only upset me.

 

[KnightoftheRose]

Of course, it is really Jesus and everything he represents which is under attack, but since attacking him directly would lead to a general outrage, they have to attack his institutions and his followers.

Just one more reason why society would be better off without television.

 

[Mickey]

Look on the bright side. If Hollywood attacks it, then you know it is the Truth. Continue to carry your cross fellow Christians. The Davinci Code movie is coming in spring 2006–prepare for some serious slander! :bigyikes:

 

[milimac]

On my way:

Last night my family and I went to the Ordination and Installation of Bishop Larry Silva in Hawaii. It was so awesome. It was our first witness to any type of Ordination. It was shown live on a local network in Hawaii and all I could think about was other religions bad mouthing it at home. I know that not all people are like that but I couldn’t get it out of my head. The bad part of it is that I believe some of my own family members did the bad mouthing. I try not to watch the TV altogether. I may read the newspaper (Sports page) but I try not to get caught up with what society feels about the Catholic Church because it will only upset me.

Congratulations on your new bishop! I hope with the Holy Spirit he is able to inspire fervent faith in Hawaii. I have been to many beautiful masses in Hawaii, and a couple that almost seemed to intentially break many rules – in Keaukaha (Big Island). I had to check with a priest in Hilo the next week to make sure I had really gone to a Catholic church.

 

[Malachi4U]

auhsoj88:

…My anger for antiCatholicism has gotten to the point were I am afraid of going to the movies with non-catholic Christians for fear of seeing this garbage! Am I the only one that feels this way!!! How do you guys deal with it. Advice??

God bless

Welcome to the reformation in Protestant America!

 

[adventistnomore]

As Phillip Jekins says…

Anti-Catholicism: the last accepted prejudice.

Saddest thing of all…

It’s the secular crowd AND nominal Catholics doing it. Many feel Catholicism is public domain and open for ridicule/condemnation.

 

[Liberian]

auhsoj88:

My anger for antiCatholicism has gotten to the point were I am afraid of going to the movies with non-catholic Christians for fear of seeing this garbage! Am I the only one that feels this way!!! How do you guys deal with it. Advice??

auhsoj88,

Step one would be to throw away the television set. Actually, that was probably the smartest decision my wife and I made when we were first married, not to have one.

If you need (or really want) to watch movies, I would recommend some on-line movie house which has an excellent selection of old movies. (I would name names, but I don’t want to be accused of giving free advertising.) Hollywood was not always anti-Catholic.

• Liberian

 

[catsrus]

I was prepared to enjoy the TV series “Into The West” until a poster here let us know that the very first episode put a very bad slant on The Church. That did it. I never watched.
I too get disgusted with all the anti-Catholic movies and TV shows. I love the Law & Order shows but watching an episode of SVU one evening, one Catholic charachter was commiserating with his non Catholic boss about the sex scandle and how it’s shaken his faith. (some faith!) I turned it off in disgust and that was the end of that.

 

[jennypekny]

Liberian:

Step one would be to throw away the television set. Actually, that was probably the smartest decision my wife and I made when we were first married, not to have one.

I totally agree, we very rarely have ours on. It’s in the basement and with little ones running around we have more fun playing that staring at the tube. :yawn:

Maybe someone should start a petition to Mel Gibson or the director of the Terese movie, (forgive me I cannot remember his name now), and have them make some more movies like the Passion or Terese. I think those were probably the last two movies we saw that we actually didn’t have any issues with.:yup:

 

[iserve]

Just last night my daughter had rented a movie with Tommy Lee Jones, whom I normally like, but this “teen pic” was full of sexual innuendo, and disgraceful attire and behavior on the part of the “cheerleaders” in the movie. I was appalled when one of the young ladies (and I use that term loosely) proclaimed that she hadn’t had “phone sex” with her boyfriend in over a week, and then she bends down and what is she wearing??? a ROSARY around her neck! I would like to have gotten up and slapped her if I could. The idea that this movie is intended for teens makes it all the more disgusting. Next year, for my Confimation class, I am going to make a DVD of a whole series of movie clips like this and have a “wake up call” night for my class. It’s time they saw what they are buying into: pornography, violence and the complete disrespect and degradation of all things Godly.

 

[Lazerlike42]

It can be bad, and you should try to work against it, but at the same time don’t shun everything in the world just to avoid it.

1Co 5:9 I wrote to you in a letter not to associate with sexually immoral people–
1Co 5:10 by no means referring to this world’s immoral people, or to the greedy and swindlers, or to idolaters; otherwise you would have to leave the world.
1Co 5:11 But now I am writing you not to associate with anyone who bears the name of brother who is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a reviler, a drunkard or a swindler. Do not even eat with such a person.

 

[Atreyu]

There are some other good Catholic movies out there. I find it really interesting that all Christian oriented movies all seem to be Catholic. The ones that I’ve seen, anyway. I thought Constantine was very good, and a few years ago, End of Days. They were not without their faults, but I still enjoyed watching them.

Also realise that it isn’t just Catholicism that is treated badly in the media. The other day I was watching The OC (we’re a bit behind, if you watch it in the US), and there was a group of Christian students who wanted to beat up Seth (one of the main characters if you don’t watch it), because he was doing scandalous things with one of the Christian’s girlfriends. It was very cringeworthy. So basically, the prejudice is often anti-Christian rather than specifically anti-Catholic. Although I do think sometimes it is pretty specifically anti-Catholic…

 

[Kay_Cee]

In contrast, I was watching an episode of Mission Impossible (from the early 70’s) that my husband had taped yesterday. In it, a Catholic priest helps the IMF team get a certain list out of a fictional Communist country, even though the priest has had a stroke and is so paralyzed he can only communicate by moving his eyes. The man is portrayed as a true hero.

I couldn’t help thinking what a contrast it was with the garbage we see on TV today.

 

[Bobby_Jim]

Did you ever notice that in a vampire movie or zombie movie or werewolf movie or whatever, it’s usually a Catholic priest that gets called in as the heavy artillery against the forces of evil? You never see, for example, an Episcopal or Methodist minister performing an exorcism. I think that shows at least a certain regard for Catholicism…

 

[Edwin1961]

Bobby Jim:

Did you ever notice that in a vampire movie or zombie movie or werewolf movie or whatever, it’s usually a Catholic priest that gets called in as the heavy artillery against the forces of evil? You never see, for example, an Episcopal or Methodist minister performing an exorcism. I think that shows at least a certain regard for Catholicism…

But in the movies today, the Priest is seen AS the monster!

Lord have mercy on us all!

 

[catsrus]

Next year, for my Confimation class, I am going to make a DVD of a whole series of movie clips like this and have a “wake up call” night for my class. It’s time they saw what they are buying into: pornography, violence and the complete disrespect and degradation of all things Godly.

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What a GREAT idea!

 

[johnpaullover]

auhsoj88:

I am so tired of the Media and Hollywood’s anti-Catholicism. It is impossible to go a full week without hearing a soundbyte here and there on film, news, and television, on the “infamous evil empire”.

I was watching Million Dollar Baby this weekend with a family friend who attends Churches of Christ, and in one of the scenes one character got scoffed with profanity by a Priest. The family friend was repulsed by a cursing Priest. Obviously the friend reacted just the way Hollywood wanted him too!

Several winters ago there was a movie called 40 days and 40 nights. I did not watch the film but the plot was simple. A guy sho supposed to be Catholic stops fornicating for 40 days and forty nights. Not coincidently, Hollywood released this film during Lent season, go Figure!

In 03, a Priest in my local area was charged with raping a 16 year old girl, which later turned out to be a false charge and he was aquitted. At the same time a Pentacostal Minister was charged with molesting two of his own daughters. He was found guilty. However the local newspaper did a good job of covering the front page every other day with only the Priest case while the Pentacostal Minster got no more that 100 words in the back of the paper!

My anger for antiCatholicism has gotten to the point were I am afraid of going to the movies with non-catholic Christians for fear of seeing this garbage! Am I the only one that feels this way!!! How do you guys deal with it. Advice??

God bless

I know… The same thing happened with “The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.” I didn’t watch it, but i saw the internet trailer and it had a picture of someone, who honestly looked like a cardinal getting DRUNK!!!

Hollywood can be SOOOOO cruel.

In the case of the preist, this is only because the Pentecostals are a much smaller church than the Catholic Church, so naturally, the Church has to make a big deal about it.

 

[Lazerlike42]

johnpaullover:

I know… The same thing happened with “The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.” I didn’t watch it, but i saw the internet trailer and it had a picture of someone, who honestly looked like a cardinal getting DRUNK!!!

Hollywood can be SOOOOO cruel.

In the case of the preist, this is only because the Pentecostals are a much smaller church than the Catholic Church, so naturally, the Church has to make a big deal about it.

I’m not by any means an expery on Douglas Adams, or any of the people who actually made the film for that matter, but I don’t think the fellow in Hitchhiker’s was meant as a shot at Catholics.

I’m not remembering where this is from, but there is a part where they go to an alien church of some sort and they have alien worshippers, The overall scene may be a subtle poke at organized religion in general, but if anything in a lighthearted way. In any case, the fellow wasn’t a Cardinal, just some alien religious leader of some sort. If it was a Cardinal, then the part of the movie it’s from (the beginning) had nothing to do with religion at all and the guy was just an innocent bystander. It was more about EVERYONE getting drunk, and in such a situation in a movie its obviously very common to see a religious figure getting drunk to emphasize that it was EVERYONE (which actually presents the idea that religious leaders DON’T get drunk.)

I may be wrong and I welcome correction if so