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May 14, 2006

Taking a stroll down history lane...

The anti-Da Vinci Code inquisition continues unabated.

SPRING GROVE, Penn., May 13 /Christian Wire Service/ -- The American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP) and its America Needs Fatima campaign are inviting concerned Catholics to join a petition against The Da Vinci Code. So far, the effort has garnered 100,946 signatures and steadily continues to gain steam.

“A growing number of Catholics are expressing their unequivocal rejection and disgust of the blasphemous Da Vinci Code film,” said America Needs Fatima director Robert Ritchie. “The more Hollywood mocks our faith, the more it demonstrates a brazen contempt for God.”

Interesting choice of words - "blasphemous" - considering the Catholic Church's long and sordid history of persecuting any who didn't march lockstep with the Church. That American Evangelicals are marching lockstep with Catholics on this particular Inquisition reveals a certain myopic ignorance of the fact that they are themselves guilty of blasphemy for not being Catholics. Most of them would have been burned at the stake for their "crime" just a few centuries ago.

Interestingly enough, separation of Church and State was a "crime" of heresy according to the historic Catholic Church (Lea, History of Inquisition of Middle Ages vol 2, p. 476).

Why aren't these Catholics out protesting the Constitution which allows the heresy of The Da Vinci Code movie to be shown in theaters against the inherently better (i.e., Divine) judgement of The Church?

Posted by Kevin at May 14, 2006 10:45 AM

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