[Apologetics] Whose God May We Mock?

[Art Kelly]

Whose God may we mock?

Posted: May 16, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern

By Patrick J. Buchanan

© 2006 Creators Syndicate Inc. 

If "such lies and errors had been directed at the
Quran or the Holocaust," said Archbishop Angelo Amato,
the Vatican's secretary for the congregation for the
doctrine of the faith, "they would have justly
provoked a world uprising." 

The archbishop was speaking of "The Da Vinci Code,"
the Ron Howard film that debuts at Cannes and opens
worldwide this week, and is expected to gross $500
million by summer's end.

The full article is at
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50221
which states in part:

For what "The Da Vinci Code" says is that Roman
Catholicism is a gigantic fraud, that the church has
for centuries been perpetrating a monstrous hoax,
duping hundreds of millions into believing something
it knows is a bald-faced lie. At the novel's heart
lies the contention that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were
married, that they had a daughter, that the Vatican
has known this and been hiding the descendants of
Jesus, that Opus Dei is a secret order whose agents
will engage in murder to protect the secret...

If "The Da Vinci Code" is based upon facts, no other
conclusion follows than that to be a Catholic is
either to be in on this fraud or to be the dupe of
those perpetuating it. But if it is fiction, why would
Hollywood put out so viciously anti-Catholic a film
that can only have the effect of undermining the faith
of millions of Christians? 

Putting "The Da Vinci Code" on film, with what it
alleges about the Catholic Church, is the moral
equivalent of making a movie based on the "The
Protocols of the Elders of Zion" and implying this is
the truth about the Jewish plot to control the world.
One imagines Ron Howard and Tom Hanks would take a
pass on that script. 

Art

                           
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