Malone calls on fellow bishops to oppose ‘Fifty Shades’ film

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Timothysis said:
I wonder how many here who criticize the book have actually read it?

The last thing we need is for our Church leaders bringing attention to it. Don’t they ever learn? If you leave it alone, it will quickly fade away. Make a stink about it and it will only help sell more tickets.
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I thought it would be an occasion for sin,therefore,I chose not to read it.
 
Whatever happened to the Legion of Decency, which guided us in the movie department?
 
Timothysis said:
I wonder how many here who criticize the book have actually read it?

The last thing we need is for our Church leaders bringing attention to it. Don’t they ever learn? If you leave it alone, it will quickly fade away. Make a stink about it and it will only help sell more tickets.
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I’ve read excerpts online and a few paragraphs from the book (and the writing is horrible) but it was reading the category “Erotica” on the jacket clarified things. I honestly didn’t know what the fuss was about prior to that because I’m used to people distorting and overreacting to things. But I don’t need to torture myself by reading the whole thing.
 
Jeanne_S said:
I thought it would be an occasion for sin,therefore,I chose not to read it.
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To me these types of books are a form if pornography so I choose not to read them. I think they can be addictive like a drug and I don’t do those either.
 
7_Sorrows said:
I am sure there are a lot of witless people who have read the books and more witless people will see the movie and a few witless people will experiment and will be hurt.
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Which is precisely why ‘50 shades’ is evil. Any half-decent book on BDSM starts with a discussion of safety issues.
 
Timothysis said:
I wonder how many here who criticize the book have actually read it?

The last thing we need is for our Church leaders bringing attention to it. Don’t they ever learn? If you leave it alone, it will quickly fade away. Make a stink about it and it will only help sell more tickets.
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Completely agree. A year from now no one will remember this little blip. I don’t hear anyone even talking about it, I don’t think it is as big of a phenomenon as facebook and the internet make it out to be.
 
7_Sorrows said:
All BDSM books seem evil to me.
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I can guarantee that 99% of people could not give you a half-accurate description of BDSM. I’m not saying that everyone should delve into research on it, but I can tell you that it isn’t what you think.
 
…and apparently no one here who criticizes the book has actually read it.
 
Timothysis said:
Have you ever read the Greek myths? Would you say those should be avoided because of an occasion of sin?
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I think the decision is subjective.Maybe there a women who can read pornography and not be bothered by it.I for one am not interested.
 
Timothysis said:
…and apparently no one here who criticizes the book has actually read it.
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Humor writer Dave Barry read it. Then he wrote about it in his book You Can Date Boys When You’re Forty.

It got a whole chapter, scrubbed of the dirty parts.

He didn’t like it.

That is all.

Well, his chapter on the other agony of his year (taking Daughter to a Boy Band concert) was funny too.
 
Jeanne_S said:
I think the decision is subjective.Maybe there a women who can read pornography and not be bothered by it.I for one am not interested.
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Labeling things that you don’t like as “pornography” hardly helps the situation. My mom used to think that a nude statue was “dirty.”
 
The_Old_Maid said:
Humor writer Dave Barry read it. Then he wrote about it in his book You Can Date Boys When You’re Forty.

It got a whole chapter, scrubbed of the dirty parts.

He didn’t like it.

That is all.
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I can’t say that I care much for Dave Barry…
 
Timothysis said:
Labeling things that you don’t like as “pornography” hardly helps the situation. My mom used to think that a nude statue was “dirty.”
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Gee,based on what I have read re comments by women who have read the book as well as a close friend who labeled it as such(I trust her judgement) it sounds pretty trashy and pornographic to me.Is there a particular point you are trying to make in defending this book?
 
MacBP said:
Interestingly enough, it seems like the radical-feminists also detest the book and its upcoming film. I wonder if that’s an area where we could put aside our differences and work together for the common good.

Radical feminists hate the church more than porn.
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Heard the good bishop at a conference a couple of years ago and will be seeing him again at an event next weekend. Good man. 👍
 
Jeanne_S said:
Is there a particular point you are trying to make in defending this book?
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I just have this crazy idea that a person should actually read the book in question before they condemn it. Relying on a news summary or a friends judgement doesn’t substitute for first hand experience.

We went through this here with Bill O’Reily’s book about Jesus. The thread went on for pages and pages with people condemning the book and him without even having read it. Don’t you see a problem with this type of position? If a person doesn’t want to read it, then fine but they are the last person who should have an opinion about it.
 
Timothysis said:
I just have this crazy idea that a person should actually read the book in question before they condemn it. Relying on a news summary or a friends judgement doesn’t substitute for first hand experience.

We went through this here with Bill O’Reily’s book about Jesus. The thread went on for pages and pages with people condemning the book and him without even having read it. Don’t you see a problem with this type of position? If a person doesn’t want to read it, then fine but they are the last person who should have an opinion about it.
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Again,I was told first hand by a close Catholic friend that it was filth.She was given the book to read by another friend,who BTY is a non believer.My friend read into it a ways,realized it wasn’t something she as a Catholic felt comfortable reading.She felt the need to go to Reconciliation and no she doesn’t suffer from scruples.She just has a well formed conscience.I simply chose not to even look at it.Why is that a problem for you?
 
Jeanne_S said:
Again,I was told first hand by a close Catholic friend that it was filth.She was given the book to read by another friend,who BTY is a non believer.My friend read into it a ways,realized it wasn’t something she as a Catholic felt comfortable reading.She felt the need to go to Reconciliation and no she doesn’t suffer from scruples.She just has a well formed conscience.I simply chose not to even look at it.Why is that a problem for you?
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Don’t look at it if you don’t want to! But before you or anyone condemn a book, movie, album or whatever, at least have the intellectual integrity to read, see or hear it before you do!

What do you say to a person who says, “yeah, my friend says that Jesus and God are just made up nonsense, so that’s why I don’t believe?” I’m sure that you will suddenly become concerned with making sure they have the facts before they make such a statement and that they should read firsthand what is taught about God and Jesus. It goes both ways, you know.

BTW, if your friend has such a well formed conscience, she should know that abandoning a book that she finds to be morally upsetting isn’t a cause for reconciliation.
 
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