<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Dianne,<br><br>Thanks for letting us know about this book.<br><br>From the description, it sounds like a novel, rather than an attempted apologetics work. <br><br>(By contrast, there are books and CDs which seriously attempt to prove that Jesus never existed. While that premise is absurd, I think they've sold a fair number of books and CDs to anti-Christians. Apparantly, this book on Mary speculates on the Blessed Virgin with only the author's imagination as the source.)<br><br>We should find out something about the author. <br><br>The message mentions the publisher but, strangely, not the author. What is the background of the person who wrote it? What religious beliefs, if any, does he or she hold? What motivated him or her to write this book? What other books (or articles) has this person written?<br><br>How well or poorly is the book written? If the
book makes any factual mistakes of history, those should be pointed out. <br><br>Just from reading what you sent me, there doesn't appear to be anything in Scripture that would in any way support the premises of the book. What could have caused the author to want to write something with nothing to support it?<br><br>How big of a splash do you suppose this book will make? Could attacking it give it extra publicity? Should we just ignore it?<br><font color="#007f40" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="4"><strong><em><br>Art</em></strong></font><div><strong><font color="#0000ff" size="3"><div><span style="FONT-FAMILY:Arial;COLOR:#006600;FONT-SIZE:12pt;"><font size="2"><strong>Turris Fortis Mihi Deus</strong></font></span></div></font></strong></div><br>--- On <b>Mon, 1/28/13, DianneD <i><rcdianne@yahoo.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From:
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Dear Friend,<br><br>This new book is very disturbing.<br><br>If you prefer, you can send your protest message to Simon & Schuster and not read below about its contents.<br><br>Tell Simon & Schuster to stop distributing this anti-Mary book!<br><br>We must react and reject blasphemy. To do nothing is to acquiesce to the offense.<br><br>In the Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Holy Mother Church invokes her as “Virgin most faithful” -- most faithful to her Son and His mission of Redemption.<br><br>According to Media Research Center’s press report, in the book “The Testament of Mary”…
<br> • an alienated Mary that fled the scene of her Son’s death in fear for her own life<br> • Mary is filled with bitterness and rage<br> • Mary describes herself as “unhinged” and bubbling with contempt for her Son’s demented followers, to the extreme that she threatens the Gospel writers
with a knife<br> • Mary lives as a bandit, stealing to survive<br><br><div style="text-align:center;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold;"><a rel="nofollow" title="" target="_blank" href="http://sm.tfp.org/track?type=click&enid=bWFpbGluZ2lkPTIyNDc3Jm1lc3NhZ2VpZD0xOTQyMCZkYXRhYmFzZWlkPTUyMDImc2VyaWFsPTEyNzUzMDMwOTcmZW1haWxpZD1yY2RpYW5uZUB5YWhvby5jb20mdXNlcmlkPXJjZGlhbm5lQHlhaG9vLmNvbSZmbD0mZXh0cmE9TXVsdGl2YXJpYXRlSWQ9JiYm&&&2002&&&http://campaigns.tfp.org/T100210/t130128thetestamentofmaryprotest.html">e-protest NOW</a></div><br>Mary’s point of view is that her Son’s followers must be stopped from making Jesus a god, “or else everything that happened will become a sweet story that will grow poisonous as bright berries that hang low on trees.”<br><br>Mary thinks Christ’s disciples are “fools, twitchers, malcontents, stammerers”<br><br>Mary Mary’s Son’s preaching sounded to her “false, and his
tone all stilted, and I could not bear to hear him, it was like something grinding and it set my teeth on edge.”<br><br>Mary proclaims of the death of Jesus only that “when you say that he redeemed the world, I will say that it was not worth it. It was not worth it.”<br><br><div style="text-align:center;"><a rel="nofollow" title="" target="_blank" href="http://sm.tfp.org/track?type=click&enid=bWFpbGluZ2lkPTIyNDc3Jm1lc3NhZ2VpZD0xOTQyMCZkYXRhYmFzZWlkPTUyMDImc2VyaWFsPTEyNzUzMDMwOTcmZW1haWxpZD1yY2RpYW5uZUB5YWhvby5jb20mdXNlcmlkPXJjZGlhbm5lQHlhaG9vLmNvbSZmbD0mZXh0cmE9TXVsdGl2YXJpYXRlSWQ9JiYm&&&2003&&&http://campaigns.tfp.org/T100210/t130128thetestamentofmaryprotest.html"><span style="font-style:italic;font-weight:bold;">e-protest NOW</span></a></div><br>“The making of the Gospels is portrayed not as an act of sacred remembrance but as an invasion and a theft. The Evangelists are portrayed as menacing intruders on
Mary’s privacy after Our Lord’s death.<br><br>In light of all that and seemingly happy with it, the New York Times reviewer Mary Gordon, in evident praise of the idea that Our Lady is finally portrayed accurately, proclaims, in reference to the book, that…<br><br>“Mary, the mother of Jesus, has given Christianity a good name. None of the negatives that have made Christianity a byword for tyranny, cruelty and licensed hatred have attached to her,” Gordon began. “The problem with all this is that it has led to centuries of sentimentality — blue and white Madonnas with folded hands and upturned eyes, a stick with which to beat independent women.”<br><br>Tell Simon & Schuster to stop distributing this anti-Mary book. Truly, this book is blasphemy!<br><br>It shows that Catholics cannot become complacent when the Faith of the very Mother of God is attacked.<br><br>Otherwise, the promoters of blasphemy keep on pushing the envelope with new
and more outrageous insults to the Catholic Church.<br><br>Yet they don’t attack Muhammad’s mother in this same way, do they?<br><br>It’s good that we recognize their strategy: unceasing repetition of blasphemy of every kind to demoralize Catholics and people of good will.<br><br>Let us peacefully and prayerfully protest and speak out against these assaults on the faith of our “Virgin most faithful”.<br><br><div style="text-align:center;"><a rel="nofollow" title="" target="_blank" href="http://sm.tfp.org/track?type=click&enid=bWFpbGluZ2lkPTIyNDc3Jm1lc3NhZ2VpZD0xOTQyMCZkYXRhYmFzZWlkPTUyMDImc2VyaWFsPTEyNzUzMDMwOTcmZW1haWxpZD1yY2RpYW5uZUB5YWhvby5jb20mdXNlcmlkPXJjZGlhbm5lQHlhaG9vLmNvbSZmbD0mZXh0cmE9TXVsdGl2YXJpYXRlSWQ9JiYm&&&2006&&&http://campaigns.tfp.org/T100210/t130128thetestamentofmaryprotest.html"><span style="font-style:italic;font-weight:bold;">Tell Simon & Schuster to stop distributing this anti-Mary
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