"1,000 Prayer Vigils Against The Da Vinci Code!"

[Bluebear]

Contact: John Horvat, The American TFP, 717-225-7147 ext. 227, [e-mail]

HANOVER, Penn., April 28 /Christian Wire Service/ -- As the controversy around the upcoming Da Vinci Code movie grows, :wtf: the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP) and its America Needs Fatima campaign announced plans to hold 1,000 peaceful prayer vigils outside theaters nationwide beginning May 19.

"These public acts of reparation will literally blanket the country. From Alaska to Alabama, from California to Connecticut, dedicated volunteers are banding together for protest prayer vigils in front of movie theaters showing the blasphemous Da Vinci Code movie," said America Needs Fatima director Robert Ritchie.

"Wrapped in Gnostic heresy, The Da Vinci Code is a broadside attack against the Divinity of Christ, the Papacy, and the hierarchical structure of the Catholic Church," continued Ritchie. "Together with the so-called gospel of Judas, The Da Vinci Code is outright blasphemy. Our Lord Jesus Christ is the highest ideal of moral perfection; any detraction from this moral perfection takes on a defamatory character, since it lowers and denies His unique and most excellent position as God-man."

According to the TFP web site (www.tfp.org), protests are already scheduled in most major cities in the country. The group is also sending a protest instruction booklet to interested parties, which shows how to organize a protest.

Several Catholic bishops and priests have applauded a book published by the TFP, Rejecting The Da Vinci Code, including Archbishop Raymond L. Burke of St. Louis.

"Interest is overwhelming. The phones haven’t stopped ringing. Catholics are joining in droves. We have protest leaders of all ages who are very devoted people: priests, college students, parents, and grandparents," Ritchie explained. "They’re motivated because they realize that if our culture doesn’t respect the rights of God, it won’t respect its own leaders and fellow citizens."

Referring to the woman who according to tradition wiped Jesus’ face on the way to Calvary, the TFP spokesman said: "Veronica is a good example for us to follow. She saw Our Lord wounded and bleeding, carrying the Cross. Her love for Jesus moved her to take her veil and wipe His face. God inspired her. What she did was heroic. Alone, she faced the guards to console Jesus. Today we have the chance to console Our Lord at hundreds of movie theaters, where He will be mocked again by blasphemy."



http://www.earnedmedia.org/tfp0428.htm

[hwmnbn]

1. I wasn't planning on seeing this movie .......

But if the fundies say don't see it, I'll be the first in line.

[CTyankee]

2. "Hierarchical attack?" Bring it on!! n/t

[Clarkie1]

3. If their God is so great, how can he be threatened by a Hollywood film? nt

[Cha]

23. Because, imo, their

God is Fear Based. :scared: :scared: Da Vince Code :scared:

[More Than A Feeling]

4. "the rights of God?"

[Bluebear]

7. 'we have the chance to console Our Lord'

Mamma mia.

[Radio_Lady]

5. Think I'll miss this one and let hubby go (he read the book)...

[burythehatchet]

6. Reminds me of my vigil

against Lethal Weapon 3. I thought the story line was getting old.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

8. So what's the Vatican so worried about?

If it's simply a work of fiction?

[Beelzebud]

9. Why don't they use all that energy working a soup kitchen?

Oh yeah I forgot, because these people are just freaks.

[katty]

15. yeah, why give Da Vinci Code free PR? idiots

[maveric]

10. ITS FICTION!

You'll find it in the FICTION section!
Geez!

[greendog]

22. Next time you go to the bookstore...

...move a few copies of the Davinci Code from the fiction section to the bible section.

Their. Heads. Will. Explode. :rofl:

[maveric]

25. Dont give me any ideas!!! LOL!

You know, I may just do that!
I WILL do that!

[demigoddess]

11. they just do not like the truth getting out

even if it is fiction.
:silly: :wtf: :cry: :cry: :cry:

[shain from kane]

12. I don't remember any similar protests against "Alien Resurrection". n/t

[katty]

13. Gnosis - still upsetting the Church

excerpt/more: http://www.metahistory.org/ApproachingGnosticism.php

“The ancients possessed techniques (sacraments and rituals) used largely in the Greco-Roman mystery religions to induce firing and retrieval” of the memory circuits. He notes that these techniques had a restorative value for the individual, but Gnostics also “correctly saw the ontological value to what they called the Godhead itself, the total entity.” That is, Gnostics recognized that these practices were not for self-glorification but to contribute to the healing of God, or Goddess. ("The Exegesis," quoted in Valis, p. 108ff) This is consistent with the Gnostic assertion that we, the human species, are intimately involved with the "correction" of the Goddess Sophia.

The inspirational definition is:

Gnosis is the deep ecology of the human spirit.

In other words, Gnosis is to the religious experience of humanity what deep ecology is to our rapport with nature.


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Mandatory celibacy is imposed upon the Roman Church.
Europe is evolving into feudal enclaves.


1100

Theoderic (1100-1102) is elected pope by the Pope Clement supporters. Pope Paschall II captured and imprisoned him after only 105-day reign. The Pope Clement party immediately elected Pope Albert or Adalbert (1101-1101). Some of his followers succumbed to bribery and turned him over to Pope Paschal II for imprisonment. About this time the cardinal priests and cardinal bishops are becoming the College of Cardinals or the corporate political body of the Roman church.

[PassingFair]

14. Are you quoting PKD?

("The Exegesis," quoted in Valis, p. 108ff)

Or is this something else?

[katty]

16. yes, indeed

[Raksha]

19. Thanks for the link to the Metahistory site, katty.

I am impressed! That's the BEST discussion of the origin and meaning of Gnosticism I've ever read--and it's not the first one by any means. I'm only halfway through it, but I had to stop and thank you before I went any further with it.

Edited to correct typo.

[titoresque]

17. I can't wait to see the movie!

I really have been looking forward to this one. I read half way through the book then got busy and went on with other books. From what I read though, it was really good! The previews I've seen show exactly what I had pictured in my mind while reading the book.

Anyhow, I hope......oh god I hope there will be a prayer vigil when I go see the movie MUUUUUHAHAHA!!!!!!
Perhaps I will bring with me a large sign with graphic pics of nuclear atrocity and the classic..."what would Jesus do?!"
Maybe I will suggest to them that they save their prayers for the hundreds of children who have been molested by Catholic priests?
Maybe I will suggest that they pray that I get my popcorn hot and crisp and layered with butter...the way I like it, afterall the real criminals are the ones pricing stuff in the snack bar!!!!!!
Pray for me Christians please pray that I won't have to sit next to any of you nutjobs who want to whine through the entire movie!

:banghead:

[nashville_brook]

18. "Wrapped in Gnostic heresy" -- that's rich

inside joke for Comparative Religions majors.

[Obamarama]

20. Oh good GOD...can't these lunatics be raptured EARLY?

Take em' God..they're all YOURS.

[WindRavenX]

21. jesus christ: it's FICTION

fucking FICTION

goddammit people are fucking STUPID :banghead:

[karlrschneider]

24. I am beginning to appreciate the fact that I'm getting old. Rapidly.

:eyes: