What is going on here? Why is it every which you go - somebody wants/has to control you??? Now, if you are catholic, I didn't put this here to offend, just for educational purposes and 2-Cents worth of questions.

Cardinal urges legal action against Da Vinci Code
By Philip Pullella
May 7, 2006
Yahoo News

"443 BC - THE OFFICE OF THE CENSOR IS CREATED IN THE ROMAN REPUBLIC. THE DUTY OF THE POSITION WAS TO COLLECT STATISTICS AND PATROL THEIR ACCURACY."

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - In the latest Vatican broadside against "The Da Vinci Code," a leading cardinal says Christians should respond to the book and film with legal action because both offend Christ and the Church he founded. 1554 - The first of a new style of novel, the 'picaresque', is published in Spain by an anonymous author. La Vida de Lazarillo de Tormes y sus Fortunas y Adversidades is placed on Pius IV's list of banned books, for immorality and anti-clerical statements.

CHRIST NEVER FORMED A CHURCH - CHRIST HAD BEEN DEAD SEVERAL HUNDRED YEARS BEFORE THE ROMANS DECIDED TO TAKE CONTROL - THE GREEKS AND ROMANS FORMED THE CHURCH IN CHRIST NAME TO BE ABLE TO CONTROL THE CHRISTIANS AND MANIPULATE THE MASSES (they admit this).

Cardinal Francis Arinze, a Nigerian who was considered a candidate for pope last year, made his strong comments in a documentary called "The Da Vinci Code-A Masterful Deception."

SOUND'S LIKE HE'S JUST PISSED OFF CAUSE HE DIDN'T GET THE JOB OF POPE NOW HE'S TRYING TO MAKE POINTS WITH THE VATICAN.

Arinze's appeal came some 10 days after another Vatican cardinal called for a boycott of the film. Both cardinals asserted that other religions would never stand for offences against their beliefs and that Christians should get tough. "Christians must not just sit back and say it is enough for us to forgive and to forget," Arinze said in the documentary made by Rome film maker Mario Biasetti for Rome Reports, a Catholic film agency specializing in religious affairs.

NOW THEY'RE GOING TO CHANGE THE BIBLE AGAIN TO SUITE THEIR CONTROLLING NEEDS - INSTEAD OF TURNING THE OTHER CHEEK AS THE BIBLE STATES - NOW IT'S - BUST THEIR ASSES FOR FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION.

"Sometimes it is our duty to do something practical. So it is not I who will tell all Christians what to do but use legal means in order to get the other person to respect the rights of others," Arinze said.

BY TRYING TO MANIPULATE OTHERS (non christians) FREE WILL.

"This is one of the fundamental human rights (WHO'S FUNDIMENTAL RIGHT'S?): that we should be respected, our religious beliefs respected, and our founder Jesus Christ respected," he said, without elaborating on what legal means he had in mind.

I FOR ONE CANNOT RESPECT AN ORGANIZATION THAT FOR CENTURIES HAS KILLED AND CONTROLLED MILLIONS IN THE NAME SAKE OF "GOD". FACT; BASED IN VATICAN CITY, THE HOLY OFFICE OF THE INQUISITION IS STILL ONE OF THE MOST POWERFUL BRANCHES OF THIS CHURCH'S HIERARCHY, BUT - THE MODERN CHURCH LACKS THE POLITICAL POWER TO INSTITUTE WIDE-RANGING REIGNS OF TERROR & TORTURE AROUND THE WORLD, SO THE CONGREGATION HAS TO SETTLE FOR STERNLY ADMONISHING IT'S TARGETS THESE DAYS - BUMMER!

JESUS CHRIST DID NOT FORM THE CATHOLIC CHURCH - MEN WANTING POWER AND CONTROL FORMED THE CHURCH - CHRIST WARNED AGAINST THE GREEKS & ROMANS.

A transcript of the documentary, due to be screened in Rome later this month just before the release of the film version of the best-selling book at the Cannes Film Festival, was made available to Reuters. The book, written by Dan Brown, has sold more than 40 million copies.

The novel is an international murder mystery centered on attempts to uncover a secret about the life of Christ that a clandestine society has tried to protect for centuries. The central tenet of the book is that Jesus married Mary Magdalene and had children.

BLASPHEMY "SAYS THE CURCH"........

"Those who blaspheme Christ and get away with it are exploiting the Christian readiness to forgive and to love even those who insult us. (LETS STONE THEM OR BURN THEM AT THE STAKE........) There are some other religions which if you insult their founder they will not be just talking. They will make it painfully clear to you," Arinze said.

THERE, RIGHT OUT OF THEIR OWN MOUTHS......."OTHER RELIGIONS"......WELL MY RELIGION SAYS I HAVE A RIGHT TO BLASHEM THE DEVIL ("CATHOLIC CHURCH").

BUT WHAT IF I DON'T BELIEVE IN "YOUR GOD"? THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES SAYS SOMETHING ABOUT FREEDOM OF RELIGION.... IT SEEMS THE VATICAN WANTS US TO RETURN TO THE DARK AGES. 1235 AD - The Inquisition is established by Pope Gregory IX to patrol and enforce the orthodoxy of the Christian faith. The Inquisition, over the next four hundred years, practices an extremely direct form of censorship involving the examination of published works, their judgement of heretical content or otherwise, and the seeking out and examination of the authors. If an idea did not fit in with established church law, it could not be circulated. Writers such as Giordono Bruno, in 1600, and Lucilio Vanini, 1619, were burned along with their works.

This appeared to be a reference to protests by Muslims around the world over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad.

MOHAMMAD & CHRIST WERE JUST MESSENGERS - NOT GODS!!!

Last month, another broadside against "The Da Vinci Code" was launched by Archbishop Angelo Amato, the number two official in the Vatican doctrinal office which was headed by Pope Benedict until his election last year. Amato urged a boycott of the film and Arinze, like his fellow cardinal, also blasted the credibility of the book.

LIKE THE BIBLE, THE DA VINCI CODE IS JUST A STORY WITH A FEW FACTS FACTS.

"'The Da Vinci Code' presents (Christianity) wrongly ... any film produced on the basis of that book is already in error from the word go, no matter how interesting it might appear," Arinze said.

PROVE IT'S WRONG .. LETS SEE SOME FACTS THAT SAY OTHERWISE WITH OUT DOUBT. REMEMBER THE BIBLE HAS BEEN CHANGED MANY TIMES OVER THE CENTURIES AND THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS ARE BRINGING MANY NEW FACTS TO LIGHT THAT WERE LEFT OUT OF THE BIBLE.

tHE Catholic group Opus Dei has told Sony Pictures that putting a disclaimer on the movie stressing it is a work of fiction would be a welcome show of respect toward the Church.

WHAT ABOUT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH SAYING THE SAME THING - IT IS A WORK OF FICTION THAT WAS CREATED FOR POWER, DECEPTION & CONTROL OF THE MASSES.

In the novel and film, Opus Dei is characterized as the latest in a series of secretive groups that worked over the centuries to obscure truths about Jesus Christ.

Opus Dei is a controversial conservative Church group whose members are mostly non-clerics and are urged to seek holiness in their everyday professional jobs and lives. It has rejected criticisms that it is secretive and elitist.

And remember, these scrolls and books were mostly written by MEN - hmmmm!?

WHAT DO YOU THINK?

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