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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

Posted on Friday, November 18, 2011 at 06:05 PM
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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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merefalow | Nov 19, 2011, 02:49 PM EST
religion is a brain washing process for backward ignorant gullible people,priests, mullahs .witch doctors ,soothsayers,etc etc should be shot.aspecially mullahs and christian fundamentalists,jimmy swaggarts,ayeatoolah khomenies,etc etc..

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haasny007 | Nov 19, 2011, 02:48 PM EST
@GeorgeDillon: oh Georgie boy are you sure you understand the difference between "left" and "right"?? BTW: today you haven't regaled the readers in this forum with your obligatory rants against foreigners in Ireland (and America). What happened? Have you mellowed? Let me guess: you are a retired postal worker who has never held a private sector job but you support the tea party, you profess to be a practicing Catholic yet you hate foreigners (primarily dark-skinned and non-Catholic ones) and homosexuals equally and with a passion, Sean Hannity is your favorite Irish-American, your primary news sources are the New York Post and Fox News, and you certainly do not speak a foreign language. Georgie you are pathetic!

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Tilliewillow | Nov 19, 2011, 02:29 PM EST
Jesus, Mary, and angels are not owned by the Catholic Church. You might be surprised to learn (your ignorance wrote that headline, for instance) that many Protestants believe in angels, the virgin birth of Jesus, and, yes, JESUS.

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pndirishandprou | Nov 19, 2011, 02:15 PM EST
@lyoness555: even if Obama was the anti-Christ or maybe the devil himself, he is 100 times better a president that this bunch of idiotic Republican clowns who pretend to be fit for the highest office in the country. God help us if any one of these ignorant morons should ever make it to the WH. America would descend into a banana republic: Huge tax cuts for the rich, slash and burn anything that helps the middle class, Medicare and Social Security good-bye, do nothing about the out-of-control and unaffordable healthcare costs, throw money at the military and start a hot war with Iran, the rich get richer while the middle-class slides into poverty. Mexico here we come.

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GeorgeDillon | Nov 19, 2011, 01:40 PM EST
simplesandy: I agree with you. A right-wing fool like the poster haasny is just a stooge. I've noticed one or two of his right-wing posts before. Worthless--nothing to offer.

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Collette2 | Nov 19, 2011, 01:35 PM EST
BishopSean, in today's climate, your "namesakes", would be on top of that list of "God mockers", but then, I suppose you think the confessional will exhonerate them. As Catholcs more is expected of us and that means standing up for what is right, not for what is good for the institutional church. Maybe mea culpa attatched to your username as a reminder, then it become prayer.

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FGreggMeagher | Nov 19, 2011, 12:43 PM EST
I also regret the anti-catholic attacks and insults. However, they normally can be identified as being a direct result to Catholic 'Blind Faith' over opening their eyes to child abuse and corruption around the World supported by the Wealthy Vatican, while small children (not to mention adults) die every 5 seconds or less from starvation. Interesting be it though the fact concerning the individual who is the main actor (an aka Obama acting colleague). It shows the mentality behind, and within, Obama's Kingdom. ON the bright side, attacks such as these only address the fairy-tales written into the version manufactured by the Church's CEOs over history. Facts! If, true separation of church existed maybe Hollywood would not pay attention to the Vatican's sales pitches. However, as we all know the Vatican (incorporated and Church) does not honor separations in any manner whatsoever; and they don't miss out o making the Holy Buck$ either: manufacturing arms, while inhumanely forcing white doves out of Roman windows; owning the greater % of the pharmaceutical industry worldwide, while the poor cannot afford an aspirin; promoting child abuse since 200-300 AD; falsifying the Jesus Christ Death and Resurrection, while the tomb has been discovered by EXPERTS; denying 'man' the Truth concerning the Nature and Structure of Being (Spirituality) and on.. and on.. and on. The question that should be asked with natural intelligence, wisdom, logic, compassion, and universal love is: Is the church doing more damage than Hollywood to our generations of young? Answer? Honestly! Yes!

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Springfield9 | Nov 19, 2011, 12:30 PM EST
Nothing happened to Month Python ......

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Springfield9 | Nov 19, 2011, 12:26 PM EST
Well, Vishnu Does Vegas might be next.

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simplesandy | Nov 19, 2011, 12:08 PM EST
Excuuuuuuse me hassny007.. Who the F/k died and made you boss? What gives you the right to open your hole and then tell everyone they don't have an opinion if it's not the same as yours? .lmfao !! WTF!!. Hollywood is scraping at the bottom of the barrel for movies and how far it will go before it is stopped. As for our president , Hell I would even vote Clinton in to get rid of this fool. That’s how bad he is.

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haasny007 | Nov 19, 2011, 11:41 AM EST
This is just one of the many pieces of garbage that is coming out of Hollywood these days. Hollywood produces stuff that will make money most of the time, as probably will this piece of non-sense. However, this goofball flick is no more offensive than the real crimes perpetrated by members of the Catholic church, past and present. So, Roberts, chill out, don't watch the movie if you don't like, period. And to all of you brain-washed, right-wing morons in this forum: shut the f*** up, nobody cares what you thing or say.

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BishopSean | Nov 19, 2011, 11:25 AM EST
Hi, @horsesinMdstrm. God allows me to know when I make mistakes and correct them. Just like my prof of classics said, "classic writings are not good because they are old; they are old because they are good." "cherry picking" is not the same as relevance and applicability of timeless truths; and I have lived long enough to try to follow God's agenda, rather than trying to force Him to follow mine. There can be found in internet lists of persons who mocked God and how they ended up. Not pretty. Best.

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GeorgeDillon | Nov 19, 2011, 11:21 AM EST
Why are these jerks so obsessed with Christianity? We don't interfere or insult their beliefs, but these people insist on sticking their snouts into our affairs. Get a life, Hollabackfool and other crazy bigots! The Know Nothings went out of fashion almost 2 centuries ago.

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HorsesInMdstrm | Nov 19, 2011, 10:40 AM EST
@BishopSean - if god existed why would he/she allow you to let that typo slip through? Seriously, stringing together a couple of verses from the bible coming from wildly varying authors and testaments, and trying to apply this ancient stuff, cherry picked by people seeking to reinforce their own agenda, translated by people of varying competence, to people making a movie in the 21st century is so laughable that I can't finish ...

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mamaginnty | Nov 19, 2011, 10:31 AM EST
Roberts, does the film actually mention the catholic church. Catholicism is not the be all and end all of all religions.

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