Anti-catholic? (NO TROLLS PLEASE!)

In response to skippypom12's post --

DUH. Of course they wouldn't 'promote' the movie as being anti-Catholic. I can see it now -- bi-lined as 'The Number One Anti-Catholic' movie of 2011'.

The poster asked if this movie was anti-Catholic and, even though I am not Catholic, I think this is a legitimate question.

I certainly wouldn't want to spend 8-9 dollars on "entertainment" only to have something I am or believe in insulted and ridiculed and demonized or perverted.

It's not about "feeling good" in a movie. Since this is non-thinking material it's not about feeling comfortable. It's about paying undeserved money for entertainment only to sit through 90-100 minutes of misrepresentation, perversion, and insults.

Lets leave the demonizing to the demons/vampires and represent the church as it really is -- an institution which seeks to carry out God's will in a fallen world -- but very human and imperfect, sometimes corrupt, but not the whole system or its mission.

No, only one character was seen as the villain. The other monsignor was trying to argue for him and the attempt at arrest was just him doing his duty to the senior.

I wouldn't say it is for or against any type of Christianity. If you believe that the Gospel of Thomas is authentic, and honestly if you believe that the Bible is authentic how can you completely discount it, then it is promoting the religion itself against any denominations much like it.

FYI I'm agnostic (not atheist) myself.

Ask Father Pat Buckley, Independent Catholic priest. from Larne Northern Ireland who absolutely is an egample of a man stripped of his cloth for going against the church and therefore against God as per the oath repeated by Plummer's character.
Abusive and molesting priests were not stripped. Better they make a movie showing how this good faith grew. Committing every sin known to man and behaving as bad as the Sopranos. It seems many still are. Just cant help themselves

I enjoyed the ride in the tale but considering the word of God will only be preached on Earth according to some of the interpretations of the grand fairy tale these words cannot be from our earthly bible. The movie is probably being viewed mostly by Judeo Christian type audiences anyway so giving them something familiar is correct. It was not against catholicism any more so than all the evil possessed bodies in movies just happen to be Catholics. They get CURED by the Catholic priests every time don't they. Cos the devil only INFECTS catholics should be a worry. Not that this was a snide at that church. Protestant [ and I don't mean American evangelism in its many money grabbing variations] churches are not good subject matter for cinema. No Idols NO crucifixes No obvious Dog Collars, no self crossing and no rosary beads. Nah for exciting movies it has to be the catholic mumbo jumbo.

Also to those who say that a movie is a rerun of something else then lets just go with the fact that there are only they say seven stories. Or Shakespeare has cornered the market and everything is just a variation of his work. I could have used any name of story telling prior to the finding of that big long continent over the pond.

Why not?

Burn the heretic
Kill the mutant
Purge the unclean

Look at it this way: if it portrays the post-apocaplypse Catholic Church as a totalitarian organisation (I don't know if it does, but for the sake orf argument), then that's just their fictional premise. If that offends people, that probably says more about them (or about the church) than it does about the movie.

If the movie suggested that after World War Three the world was brutally suppressed by a fascistic New World Order ulimately derived from the modern-day Girl Scouts, would that be offensive to Girl Scouts?

Possible spoilers?




Similar to what an earlier posting inferred, Asian culture has turned the idea of Christian Holy Men as anti-vampire/ demon crusading warriors into a genre, and a damn entertaining genre (Trinity Blood, Hellsing, Chrono Crusade for example). And why shouldn't they? We trivialize Buddhism in our kung-fu films and see nothing wrong with it. I, frankly, find movies that make me think more entertaining than movies that make my brain start leaking out of my ear by virtue of being totally mindless. It IS possible to think and be entertained at the same time- I never understood the type of moron who thinks otherwise. Anyway- this film in no way insults Catholicism, however, if you are easily offended, you may not want to pay the money to go see this because crosses and other religious symbols are used as weapons. The hero is more like a soldier cast aside and demonized after the state no longer needs him (or his brethren), and the state, in this film, just so happens to be the church. The hero's faith in God and the power of God, however, is never shaken, and he stays true to his vows to God, but he defies the state (aka church), and he is right to do so. The way I see it, if your faith is strong, nothing should be able to shake it, and so there is no harm in exposing yourself to this movie, which is pure fun and entertainment. I enjoyed it very much, and there is no reason a Christian should not be able to enjoy it as well.

I wouldn't give a s***. I am half white, half asian, and I love watching movies that make fun of either or both. I am straight and have watched some movies that are gay-oriented. I love animals and find humor in it when a movie is funny even if it involves abusing animals in some way.

The point is: is it entertaining? If yes (which I think this film was), then I will watch it and probably enjoy it.

The OP is definitely justified if he wants an opinion and feels he would be offended though. Personally, I think people should have thicker skin but some don't and that is fine.