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Anti-Catholic insults rife in 'A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas'----lesbian nuns, topless angels, playboy Jesus all add insult to injury
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I'm not one to scream anti-Catholic too often but the new movie "A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas" screams insult at every turn.
It is unfortunately on your screens now.
Worse, the main actor Kal Penn, who plays a stoner, is a former senior official in the Obama administration -- I kid you not. Penn was associate director of the White House Office of Public Engagement.
The plot includes lesbian nuns, abusive priests, topless angels, and a Playboy version of Jesus.
I'm game for a laugh as much as the next guy, but the offense to Catholic sensibilities, especially at this time of year is gratuitous and demeaning
The plot also involves an attempt to have sex with a teenage virgin named Mary, so no prizes for guessing who is the target here as well.
Of course, nothing is sacred to Hollywood types when it comes to anti-Catholic movies.
However, great care is always taken to ensure that other religions, such as Judaism or Islam are never portrayed in any offensive way in films
Why are Catholics the last great group that can be mercilessly mocked?
As I say I am not going to see anti-Catholicism under every Hollywood tree but this latest insult is certainly par for the course.
One wonders what image of our religion will young persons come away with after seeing this trailer trash.
Let's hope, like diarrhea, it passes quickly.
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mariedriscoll | Nov 23, 2011, 11:12 PM EST
why not do the educated thing and simply Bycot it
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Pittsburghkid | Nov 23, 2011, 06:19 PM EST
Catholics are treated this way, because they fight against Abortion.
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eiriamach | Nov 22, 2011, 06:47 PM EST
Reading Cahir's blog about Pope Benedict telling Africans that they must not use condoms but practice 'ethical' abstinence instead, I am amazed that anyone can consider ME anti-life! Cahir writes, "In May 2005 Pope Benedict made his first public pronouncement on AIDS, insisting that condoms never be used to fight it. At the time he was addressing the bishops of South Africa, where somebody dies of AIDS every two minutes." No contraceptives-- not even to save millions of lives, including the lives of many who have never been promiscuous or adulterous? That's "ethics" and condoms are "anti-life"? No, that's death-driven misanthropy, and using condoms shows that we care for each other, that we will have children only when we can care for them properly so that they can grow in decent circumstances and learn to care for each other as well.
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eiriamach | Nov 21, 2011, 03:55 PM EST
Gearoid4 writes, "Contraception has induced an anti-life mentality which is often backed up by abortion as an insurance measure if it fails." Contraception is not a slippery slope to abortion but the most effective opponent of abortion. According to Germain Grisez's 1966 report to Crd. Ottaviani, the morality of contraception was accepted by a "solid majority of the cardinals and bishops," as well as "a substantial majority of the theological section" and "the vast majority of non-theological experts" who replied to the pope's request for help in addressing questions raised by new contraceptives. And by recent estimate, 90% of Catholic couples have practiced contraception at some point in marriage. The sensus fidelium apparently holds, along with Protestant and other moral thinkers, that human beings must take responsibility for our reproductive capacities. Indeed, I would say that rejecting such responsibility violates common sense about moral behavior in marriage. If contraception is wrong because it comprises an incorrect understanding of marriage (as a union of two who produce new life), then marriage itself is wrong in the face of serious over-population, global economic failures that consign millions of children to poverty, and inadequate resources for supporting further population increase. If RC's reason for continuing to oppose it is simply to avoid rupture with its tradition of magisterial teaching, the pope might review the fate of some of his predecessors' teachings about the duties of slaves to obey their masters, to cite just one example.
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warlocks | Nov 21, 2011, 01:21 AM EST
IF you ignore a problem it blows away with the winds of time . The same way the Vativan has done, They have no one to blame but themselves . they created it !
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Gearoid4 | Nov 20, 2011, 11:17 AM EST
@Eiriamach,
Yeah, the Catholic Church has wandered so far away from the Christian message, that they are lobbying against the "right" for women to destroy the life inside them,i.e abortion, euphemistically called "the right to chose" or "reproductive health". It is not so healthy for the child and when has campaigning against this evil been far away from the Christian message? Contraception has induced an anti-life mentality which is often backed up by abortion as an insurance measure if it fails. The Church currently is correctly campaigning against the denial by the HHS of insidious restrictions on Her social care/health agencies to offer policies that go directly against Catholic core beliefs.
As for the film in question, it is beneath contempt and really does not need any extra comment. Just a lazy, cynical attack on easy targets that the director knows will not issue edicts or fatwas against him. Sensationalist, unfunny drivel dressed up as supposed satire against religion.
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steveross | Nov 20, 2011, 09:44 AM EST
I can't see anything specifically Catholic about Jesus, Mary, the angels or even nuns. Where did you get that from, Patrick?
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eiriamach | Nov 20, 2011, 09:01 AM EST
It's amazing that someone below complains about a culture of death in secular society OUTSIDE the Catholic Church! The cure for that blindness is to open a history book and read up on wars and inquisitions waged by this death-wielding military power throughout the ages. I thank Patrick Roberts for saving me the money I might have spent on a film that's only a series of cheap shots. Satire is difficult, and many attempts fall short and end up just lampooning their target. However, it's not difficult to understand why film and other media would lampoon the RC these days. It's all too easy to see how far RC has wandered from the Christian message. Today the American RC bishops are waging holy war against preventive health services for women and thus against the independence of women. If they were to succeed, the number of abortions here would take a quantum leap because many women in need would not have contraceptives. And many who can't abort (no insurance coverage) would be forced into poverty, them and the children they have. It's a sick, self-serving war against women as moral agents capable of taking responsibility for themselves and their families. I won't bother to see the film, but I hope it does well at the box office.
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Toronthab | Nov 20, 2011, 02:19 AM EST
So disgusting. But, after all it is a culture clash. Sex is a consumer good in western culure. Within Catholicism life is sacred and orgasms don't justify deaths. People want sex without responsibility, cultural shifts that see death by the tens of millions. It really is a culture of death and it hates the church for pointing it out.
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brianmack | Nov 19, 2011, 07:27 PM EST
Good article Patrick. Here's something to consider,
the highest grossing movies of all time are the Harry Potter and James Cameron flicks. Look at who was involved with these movies, their names and those
who financed them. I submit to whomever that you can
see who was involved with the movie (and I'm not giving free publicity to these lowlifes, that is being
referred to in this article. I detest anyone who is
anti semetic but it's amazing how these so called
"enlightens" can be so anti-catholic and very few raise an eyebrow. One final comment, patrick harris
lost a one fan with this piece of garbage.
mack
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BishopSean | Nov 19, 2011, 06:23 PM EST
Hi, @Collette2. Allow me to state, as I have elsewhere, I am not Roman Catholic. I do not paint all Roman Catholic priests, bishops, or nuns with the same black brush. I try to recognize what is wrong with all churches professing faith in Jesus Christ and at the same time recognize what is right in each Church. How would society be better with no Church? --look at Muslim and Communist countries, for example. Best.
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JOCSurf007 | Nov 19, 2011, 03:58 PM EST
If the movie is focusing on Catholisism's shortcomings to promote humor, the movie makers are scrapping the bottom of the barrel. By focusing on the downside many will miss the profound impact that religion can and does have on people. We hope one day soon that the good will begin to eclipse the absense of good in all the Christian churches.
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GeorgeDillon | Nov 19, 2011, 03:20 PM EST
If proof were needed that the poster haasny is an ignorant fool, it comes in his attempt to describe me. Turns out he's wrong in every single claim about me. I won't waste my time on refuting him--why should I? Enough to say he's wrong on every single misconception about me! Sean Hannity!! --you're the Hannity fool, hassny, I've attacked Hannity on numerous occasions here. You're just a stuipid bigot. A Rush Limbaugh fan, I suspect. Mindless dittohead.
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walter3ca | Nov 19, 2011, 03:00 PM EST
My 12 years of Catholic school included lesbian nuns and abusive priests. Sounds like real life, to me.
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