Vatican bans Dan Brown film Angels & Demons from Rome churches

[edwest2]

Why worry about it, Its all entertainment after all…
You cannot believe everything a book or movie shows, It is ment to open your eyes and make you think What if!!
My brother inlaw once stated about a movie many yrs ago that the movie was **** because its impossible for a man to jump out of a boeing plane at 30,000 ft without being killed.
My reply was to this man who watches starwars/startreck etc…
Your not ment to believe just watch and be entertained…

:knight1:

All entertainment carries a message. All entertainment is designed for a target audience. The intent of a movie is carefully, very carefully, planned before millions of dollars are spent making it.

If you mean jumping out of a plane at 30,000 ft without a parachute, that’s one thing, but if you mean with a parachute, fighter pilots do it all the time.

God bless,
Ed

 

[manualman]

I don’t understand the controversy.

Dan Brown writes a defamatory book about Catholicism in general and Opus Dei in particular. The catholic church decides perhaps the blood, sweat and tears of thousands that went into building those magnificent churches of Europe would be rather dishonored by the churches being used to effectively subsidize an agenda opposed to catholicism.

The nerve of those Vatican guys.

 

[lucybeebee]

One word…“fiction”…if every work of fiction had to conform to other peoples religious beliefs and rigid doctrinal cenosorship, there wouldn’t be a lot of “religious fiction” on the market.

FICTION

A well-told fictional take can be more powerful than non-fiction in influencing people’s beliefs. For example, the film Birth of a Nation was was of the key events responsible for reviving the Ku Klux Klan. The imagery was so powerful that race riots regularly occurred after viewings and it had to be banned in some areas (including Macon, GA) as a result. This film was totally fictional, but many people believed it to be true and the director D.W. Griffin just thought that he was “telling it like it is,” much like Dan Brown. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is also fictional, but it’s taken as a true document for many people who are into anti-semitism. The Turner Diaries are also fiction, but people on the racist fringe think that it’s a blueprint for how to create a new society. People are influenced by the media they consume, whether fiction or non–fiction. A book like Angels and Demons reinforces the kind of latent anti-Catholic feeling that already exists in American society by outright lies. If Dan Brown has a problem with Catholicism, he needs to at least get his facts right.