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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hi</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>What catches my attention is the small stuff.
The goofs. If they did their homework, they could get it right. If
they are wrong on minor issues, it makes all the rest quite unbelievable.
A priest saying Mass with words the script writers made up, even if the entire
film contains that as the only religion-related scene, misrepresents the Church
to those who don't know it. "I am the mantlepiece, the truth, and the life
..." (or whatever that mantlepiece word really was) could easily get
non-Catholics who know that verse to wonder what these Catholics have done to
the Bible.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Of the movies Art mentioned, I saw Shoes of the
Fisherman when I was about 12 ... so I can't comment on it much, but I remember
it was good.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thinking a bit harder ... The Mission may have been
without theological problems. They did have at least one Jesuit on their
consulting panel.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Left Behind, while not a movie that most Catholics
would consider theologically correct on several issues, didn't misrepresent
Catholicism by having a priest talking nonsense behind the altar. The only
Catholic reference I noted was a scene in an aeroplane with a nun ... later,
after the rapture, you see her dress lying empty in her seat, with her rosary on
it, which she had been praying. Obviously the intent was to show a
Catholic rosary-praying nun as a true Christian being included in the rapture,
which is not at all a misreprentation of Catholicism.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>As for The Omen ... Milingo would have done a
better job.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If I see a movie with things that misrepresent
Catholicism - goofs or major themes - I'll mention them here.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>God bless,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Stephen</FONT></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=rcdianne@yahoo.com href="mailto:rcdianne@yahoo.com">Dianne Dawson</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=skorsman@theotokos.co.za
href="mailto:skorsman@theotokos.co.za">Stephen Korsman</A> ; <A
title=apologetics@gathman.org
href="mailto:apologetics@gathman.org">Apologetics Group</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, October 08, 2006 3:56
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Apologetics] Movie
Recommendations</DIV>
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<DIV>When I mentioned then theology being right I didn't mean the small
stuff. As you and Art said, no movie gets it completely right.
While I know it's not theology, per se, one example is Mary of Nazareth
where Mary was portrayed as a nagging rebel and part of a gang along with
Joseph.</DIV>
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<DIV>Dianne<BR><BR><B><I>Stephen Korsman <<A
href="mailto:skorsman@theotokos.co.za">skorsman@theotokos.co.za</A>></I></B>
wrote: </DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I don't remember a single movie that gets all
the theology right. They can't even manage to quote the Bible
properly. I just watched House of 9 ... the priest uses the Gospel of
Thomas in his blessing of the dead ("he who is near me is near to the fire,
and whoever is far from me is far from the kingdom"), and says something
about "I am the mantlepiece, the truth, and the life ...." It wasn't
mantlepiece, and I don't remember the word, but it made about as much sense
in the context he used it. He could have been a priest from the Order
of Da Vinci, for all he managed to get right.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>God bless,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Stephen</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>--<BR>Stephen Korsman<BR><A
href="mailto:skorsman@theotokos.co.za">skorsman@theotokos.co.za</A><BR><A
href="http://www.theotokos.co.za/">www.theotokos.co.za</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>IC | XC<BR>---------<BR>NI |
KA<BR></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=rcdianne@yahoo.com href="mailto:rcdianne@yahoo.com">Dianne
Dawson</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=apologetics@gathman.org
href="mailto:apologetics@gathman.org">Apologetics Group</A> ; <A
title=MayDay1@aol.com href="mailto:MayDay1@aol.com">David Mullaney</A> ;
<A title=mmichaelis@amfirst.com href="mailto:mmichaelis@amfirst.com">Mitch
Michaelis</A> ; <A title=sjshea@verizon.net
href="mailto:sjshea@verizon.net">Susan Shea</A> ; <A
title=magcombs@yahoo.com href="mailto:magcombs@yahoo.com">Margaret
Combs</A> ; <A title=sccl@sclife.org href="mailto:sccl@sclife.org">Holly
Gatling</A> ; <A title=jimmie@usit.net
href="mailto:jimmie@usit.net">Nettie Taylor</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, October 07, 2006 9:09
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Apologetics] Movie
Recommendations</DIV>
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<DIV>Last night a friend and I went to see The Guardian with Kevin Costner
and Ashton Kutcher. I highly recommend this movie, It is a
wonderful story of self-sacrifice. The story line revolves around US
Coast Guard rescue swimmers. It has no explicit sex scenes (at least
I didn't think so). There is a sub-plot where one guy has an affair
with someone he meets. The most graphic scene has her sitting on the
side of the bed, with a robe on, and he is under a quilt. The
photography is great.</DIV>
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<DIV>One of the preview trailers was about a movie due to come out later
this year called The Nativity Story (<A
href="http://www.thenativitystory.com/">www.thenativitystory.com</A>).
If the trailer can be trusted it looks like a really good movie and pretty
solid in theology. The problem is I've learned that you certainly
can't necessarily trust trailers.</DIV>
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<DIV>Dianne</DIV><BR><BR>
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