Anti-catholic? (NO TROLLS PLEASE!)

I'd put it this way, the movie ain't no "Bells of Saint Mary" ...

Many American Catholics are certainly _not_ going to like this movie because it portrays a Catholic-like hierarchy as complacent, out-of-touch and arrogant. Further it portrays a woman priest as being odd or different in any serious way from her male counterparts. ("Here's to you Holy Office/Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith ...")

On the other hand, I do believe that movie's central point (and I do believe that the movie _has_ a central point) that if the Church becomes complacent and ceases to take its role of combating Evil in this world seriously then it is good for nothing is compelling and I do find that the story for the movie comes originally out of South Korea _fascinating_.

South Korea has a _young_ Catholic Church both in its formal presence on the peninsula (though it has its own formally recognized Catholic martyr saints from already centuries past) and in terms of the age of its lay membership.

Somewhere around 1/3 of the population is Christian and some 1/3 of that is Catholic. That the Catholic Church would have entered _so deeply_ into the pop-cultural consciousness of South Korea's youth that a story like the one for this movie could have been concocted, I find remarkable.

And we could only hope in the U.S.A. that Catholic priests would _ever again_ come to thought of as being _so cool_ as presented in this film ;-)

So "Bells of Saint Mary" or "Going My Way" it certainly _isn't_ but I did find it very interesting!

Fr. Dennis Kriz, OSM
http://frdennismoviereviews.blogspot.com/2011/05/priest.html

I just saw the movie yesterday and i didn't find it anti-catholic or religion but more of a reflection of something we've seen in history. Where a big powerful nation or leader gets complacent while a real threat looms. More of a blind ignorance. At least thats what i got out of it.

What? There's nothing of the concept. I'm catholic & watched it and it was a little bit lame IMO. But if anything, maybe some think that probably it's because priests shouldn't do such things done in the movie.




A ship sank at the end of the movie Titanic!

It's set in a different universe than this one, so, in a sense anything it shows you cannot be anti-catholic as it's NOT this world as we know it.

Other than that, who really cares if it's anti-anything as it's a film and we choose to believe or take from it whatever we want

Here ya go....

http://www.zalaa.com/7qg434us08fy/Priest_2011_REPACK_R5_CAM_AUDiO_XviD-BiDA.avi.htm

I most certainly do not have an ax to grind as you call it with Christianity, but obviously as a Christian I have an ax to grid with the papacy and Catholicism. As I therefor obviously hate the antichrist (the papacy) and the whore of Babylon the RCC.

That said there ate true Christians in the antichrist church, people who have been mislead and who need to hear the truth about the antichrist. God says about those of you: Come out of her my people!

The false Church, the whore of Babylon is described as follows in scripture: Revelation 17: 3So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.

4And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:

5And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

6And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
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Does this ring a bell, have a look how the papacy is dressed, how they flogged and skinned and burned those who dared read the Bible how she (the roman church) blasphemes claiming she can forgive sins and that the Pope is god on earth.

Is the film Anti-Catholic? No, but if it was why is it a problem? In light of your childish demands that no-one question religion I've gotta ask Zackery, do you have a problem with people just questioning catholicism or questioning religion in general? Do you read the Bible for yourself with the illumination of the Holy Spirit or do you let your priests & pope tell you what to believe? The Bible clearly names Christ as the only Saviour of man & the only intercessor between man & God yet your church tells you (directly contradicting scripture) to obey a man above scripture from God Himself, to pray to the dead (which for some reason you call saints, forgetting that the power of the Holy Spirit is what heals, not prayers to the dead & long decayed), angels & even the mother of Jesus which is the most unbelievable heresy of all considering that Jesus is the only sinless saviour of mankind meaning Mary had to believe & be saved just like every other human born into sin (yes she was born into sin, yes she had to believe, repent & be saved & no she did not ascend into heaven before death, show me the scripture that states she did). And lets not forget catholic churches filled with crucifixes & statues of the dead (or idols in other words, directly contradicting the command not to make any graven image & put them in your place of worship), priests telling people to perform penance as if the forgiveness of God is not enough when it is asked for or the demand placed upon your priests that they remain celibate even though Paul himself says that such a demand is wickedness & a sign of the evil of the end times (1 Timothy 4:1-3 which also contains an interesting little warning about the catholic church demanding its followers abstain from certain foods). If you're so confident in your faith (which I seriously doubt considering your demand no-one that question it & your accusation that anyone who does is a troll) then you should have no problems defending it with scripture alone.

catholicism is the most powerful organization in the world, yet constantly
proclaiming, and viewing themselves as underdogs, as being attacked. delirium.

I am surely atheist, and have to say first, this move is not anti-catholic.

and second, it's a movie about vampires. this is fantasy. but i can see
how easy it must be to get your reality and fantasy mixed up. i mean, read
the book.