{"id":941,"date":"2005-03-16T19:15:24","date_gmt":"2005-03-17T00:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ericbrooks.com\/whuzzup\/?p=941"},"modified":"2011-06-05T17:16:50","modified_gmt":"2011-06-05T22:16:50","slug":"vatican-assault-on-davinci-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericbrooks.com\/whuzzup\/vatican-assault-on-davinci-code\/","title":{"rendered":"Vatican assault on DaVinci Code"},"content":{"rendered":"

Theologian calls novel insulting ‘sack full of lies’<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nothing spells “desperation and distraction” more than a Vatican assault on a book that’s already been out for two years.<\/p>\n

‘This book is a sack full of lies against the Church, against the real history of Christianity and against Christ himself,’ said Bertone, archbishop of northern Genoa.<\/div>\n

“REAL history??!!??!?” Does he really wanna go there? The Cathars also believed that Jesus and Mary Magdelene had a thing going on and they were exterminated by the Catholic Church for it in the Middle Ages.<\/p>\n

Current history (or should I say scandals) don’t make them look too good either, when you think about it.
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I, for one, have always thought religion *SHOULD* be discussed in school. When I was a kid, and we learned about the civil rights movement, we were sick with guilt over how we (as a society) treated people…. imagine if we covered the church’s bloody history and control? That would do far more damage than not talking about it.<\/p>\n

The soon-to-be-pope doesn’t cover all the “lies” that were in the book. I largely suspect Cardinal Bertone has never even read it.<\/p>\n

I thought the book kicked ass. It shined paganism in a new light, cleared up many misconceptions (like the pentacle\/pentagram, sexual hangups instilled by religion), and if you ask me… that’s the part that threatens them the most.<\/p>\n

Earlier Wednesday, when asked on Vatican Radio about commentary that the book’s success is ‘only further proof of the fact that anti-Catholicism is the last acceptable prejudice,’ the cardinal exclaimed. ‘It’s the truth.’<\/div>\n

Oh, the manufactured outrage! This is the fifth “last acceptable prejudice” I’ve heard this week.<\/p>\n

Not like Satanists, Wiccans, Jews, Gays, Muslims and Chicago Cubs fans have to walk through an apache line of misconceptions and prejudices every day of their life, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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