Friday, April 28, 2006

Alone in the Fray?

Are the Catholics the only Christians boycotting the Da Vinci Code? I mean, this seems like it would/should be a much wider church movement, and all I hear about is the Catholic angle....

[Archbishop Angelo Amato], addressing a Catholic conference in Rome, called the book "stridently anti-Christian .. full of calumnies, offences and historical and theological errors regarding Jesus, the Gospels and the Church."

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He said that if "such lies and errors had been directed at the Koran or the Holocaust they would have justly provoked a world uprising."

He added: "Instead, if they are directed against the Church and Christians, they remain unpunished."

Amato suggested that Catholics around the world should launch organized protests against the "The Da Vinci Code" film just as some had done in 1988 to protest against
Martin Scorsese's "The Last Temptation of Christ."


- excerpts taken from "Boycott Da Vinci Code film": top Vatican official by Philip Pullella

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