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Title: Top Cardinal Blasts 'Da Vinci Code' as 'Cheap Lies'
Source: Netscape News
URL Source: http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/ns/news ... 2&dt=20050315130200&w=RTR&covi
Published: Mar 15, 2005
Author: Reuters
Post Date: 2005-03-15 17:59:13 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
Keywords: Cardinal, Blasts, Cheap
Views: 11030
Comments: 568

Top Cardinal Blasts 'Da Vinci Code' as 'Cheap Lies'

ROME (Reuters) - A top Catholic cardinal has blasted "The Da Vinci Code" as a "gross and absurd" distortion of history and said Catholic bookstores should take the bestseller off their shelves because it is full of "cheap lies."

Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, in an interview with the Milan newspaper Il Giornale, became the highest ranking Italian Churchman to speak out against the book, an international blockbuster that has sold millions of copies.

"(It) aims to discredit the Church and its history through gross and absurd manipulations," Bertone, the archbishop of the northern Italian city of Genoa and a close friend of Pope John Paul told the paper in its Monday edition.

"This seems like a throwback to the old anti-clerical pamphlets of the 1800s," he said.

The central claim of the book, written by American Dan Brown, is that Jesus married Mary Magdalene and had children. The Bible says Jesus never married, was crucified and rose from the dead.

Bertone's comments were significant because until the Pope named him archbishop of Genoa in 2003 he was for years the number two man at the Vatican's most powerful department - the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

"You can find that book everywhere and the risk is that many people who read it believe that those fairy tales are real," he said. "I think I have the responsibility to clear things up to unmask the cheap lies contained in books like that."

HOLY GRAIL

A central storyline of the book is that the Holy Grail is not the cup which Christ is said to have used at the Last Supper but really the bloodline descended from Jesus and Mary Magdalene. Bertone calls this idea "a perversion."

Bertone is so incensed about the novel that he will be the key speaker at a roundtable in Genoa Wednesday night attempting to dismantle the book, which also accuses the Church of covering up the female role in Christianity.

"I will try to clear things up and help form consciences," the cardinal said.

"I think that when faced with affirmations that are so shameful and unfounded, readers who have even a minimum of basic (Christian) formation should react," he said.

He said it was "sad" that even Catholic bookstores were selling The Da Vinci Code "for purely economic reasons."

One bookstore selling "The Da Vinci Code" is the one in the Gemelli Hospital, a Catholic institution where the Pope spent a total of 28 days in two stints in February and March.

In the interview, Bertone firmly rejected the book's claim that the feminine role in Christianity had been suppressed.

"This is one of the most vulgar of inventions. The feminine element is present in all the Gospels," Bertone said.

Bertone also strongly defended Opus Dei, the conservative Church organization that the book depicts as a ruthless, Machiavellian group that resorts even to murder in its attempt to keep the Church's secrets hidden.

The novel is going to reach an even wider audience next year with the release of a film based on the book staring Tom Hanks.

© Copyright Reuters Ltd. All rights reserved. The information contained In this news report may not be published, broadcast or otherwise distributed without the prior written authority of Reuters Ltd.

03/15/2005 13:02 RTR

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#194. To: noone222 (#191)

I was quoting crackmonkey's question to you, dimbulb, which you haven't had the cojones to answer yet either.

Samuel Gray  posted on  2005-03-16   15:28:24 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#195. To: Samuel Gray (#194)

I was quoting crackmonkey's question to you, dimbulb,

Ask your own questions "dimmer-switch" ... I responded to crack-monkey's intelligent question and if you can figure out how to ask one I'll respond to yours !

noone222  posted on  2005-03-16   15:30:24 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#196. To: noone222 (#195)

You answered his question in #181? That didn't show up on a trace. Perhaps you'd care to give it another go?

Samuel Gray  posted on  2005-03-16   15:33:19 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#197. To: all (#192)

Can't we all just get high or something?

Jhoffa_  posted on  2005-03-16   15:35:15 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#198. To: Samuel Gray (#196)

You answered his question in #181

Perhaps your ability to focus is hindered due to the overdose of prozac your mom gave you this morning. Try, please try to pay better attention I hate repeating myself.

noone222  posted on  2005-03-16   15:36:47 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#199. To: Jhoffa_ (#197)

Can't we all just get high or something?

Great idea ...

noone222  posted on  2005-03-16   15:37:36 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#200. To: Jhoffa_ (#197)

Can't we all just get high or something?

Maybe, but noone222's drug of choice is an inhalant that hasn't been available since they shut down the big ovens in about 1945.

Samuel Gray  posted on  2005-03-16   15:38:06 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#201. To: noone222 (#199)

"towlie" hacked my account..

Jhoffa_  posted on  2005-03-16   15:38:29 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#202. To: Samuel Gray (#200)

Maybe, but noone222's drug of choice is

Let me be honest and fill this in with a legitimate answer. Maybe, but noone222's drug of choice is Yashua Messiah. I'm high on Jesus Christ, not a bit embarrased to admit it, and give the Almighty all of the credit for making me a happy camper in the midst of a world going mad !

noone222  posted on  2005-03-16   15:41:22 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#203. To: noone222 (#198)

I hate repeating myself.

Nah, you don't. You love the sound of it, you're just too impotent to act on it. Conviction without courage.

Samuel Gray  posted on  2005-03-16   15:41:30 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#204. To: Samuel Gray (#203)

you're just too impotent to act on it.

It's not me that has entered two blank posts ... your impotence is obvious to any casual observer ... you should refrain from opening your mouth ... you're gonna get athlete's foot in it !

noone222  posted on  2005-03-16   15:44:05 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#205. To: noone222 (#202)

noone222's drug of choice is Yashua Messiah.

So, like the bumper sticker, your boss is a Jewish carpenter?

How ironic...

Samuel Gray  posted on  2005-03-16   15:45:04 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#206. To: CAPPSMADNESS, Don (#151)

Please count me in the group that ain't sorry Christianity is here to stay.

rowdee  posted on  2005-03-16   15:50:49 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#207. To: Samuel Gray (#205)

your boss is a Jewish carpenter?

That's a common misconception. I wouldn't expect your conception to be otherwise.

noone222  posted on  2005-03-16   15:53:07 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#208. To: Samuel Gray (#205)

Actually his boss is Jewish royalty, but let's not go there, because then the Christians will get really upset, they worship a Jewish King...LOL

That would be like Muslims worshipping King Abdullah of Jordan...ROFLMAO!!!

Boy, 2000 years and they are still so confused that they don't realize that they have been suckered...

Christianity is the biggest con game ever created and pushed on the human race, and the Billion or so christians are true to the form, there is a sucker born every minute.

Hell, L Ron Hubbard proved that, and he just died what? 10 years ago or so?

Aric2000  posted on  2005-03-16   15:59:06 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#209. To: Aric2000 (#161)

And because they are considered 'oral history', so to speak, are you trying to suggest they are not believable or are untruthful? Simply because one herds sheep doesn't mean a hell of a lot. Look at scientists today who are 'brilliant', but can't change a lighbulb.

Sort of like the modern day folk who will try to tell you an oral contract is meaningless?

rowdee  posted on  2005-03-16   16:00:29 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#210. To: Aric2000 (#208)

Christians don't worship David, Aric.

Jhoffa_  posted on  2005-03-16   16:01:11 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#211. To: Jhoffa_ (#201)

"towlie" hacked my account..

What's a "towlie" ???

noone222  posted on  2005-03-16   16:01:29 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#212. To: noone222 (#211)

It's a pot smoking, burnt out, "party" towel from "South Park"

His name is "Towlie" and he's a stone cold, stoner.

Jhoffa_  posted on  2005-03-16   16:03:08 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#213. To: Continental Op (#162)

I believe the removal of the Apocrypha was much later than the KJV of 1611.....more like late 1800s/early 1900s. It's my understanding they are still included in the Catholic Bible (Douey-Rhimes sp?)

rowdee  posted on  2005-03-16   16:03:19 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#214. To: Jhoffa_ (#212)

Dakmar  posted on  2005-03-16   16:04:23 ET  (1 image) Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#215. To: Dakmar (#214)

"Wanna get high?"

Jhoffa_  posted on  2005-03-16   16:04:58 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#216. To: Jhoffa_ (#215)

Always remember to bring a towel.

Dakmar  posted on  2005-03-16   16:05:30 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#217. To: Dakmar (#216)

LOL!

Jhoffa_  posted on  2005-03-16   16:05:48 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#218. To: rowdee (#206)

Please count me in the group that ain't sorry Christianity is here to stay.

well, that makes three of us now!

A literal canibal party, Seeing as how Aric thinks we eat our own.

Do you like white or dark meat?

Is that a racially charged question?

Nice seeing ya Dee!

CAPPSMADNESS  posted on  2005-03-16   16:06:38 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#219. To: Aric2000 (#168)

Jael has made the same mistake that many make, and not only as it regards religion.

She paints with a broad brush.

Additionally, she apparently doesn't understand passages of the Bible and needs to look back to the greek words to gain understanding.

rowdee  posted on  2005-03-16   16:08:10 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#220. To: CAPPSMADNESS (#218)

I like my Jews breaded & fried, with Sweet/Sour sauce and some red wine. (Christians are better with marinara.)

Jhoffa_  posted on  2005-03-16   16:08:23 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#221. To: Aric2000 (#208)

Actually his boss is Jewish royalty, but let's not go there, because then the Christians will get really upset, they worship a Jewish King...LOL

Many unlearned people (Christians) do not realize that 90% of the people claiming to be Jewish today were never related ethnically to the Hebrews, David, Abraham, Solomon, Jacob, Moses or the Israelites, but merely converted to Judaism 800 years after Christ died. There were no Jews until after the second captivity that occurred after Solomon and after the 12 Tribes separated totally and were never reunited. [See Kings Rehoboam and Jeroboam].

What they worship is their business.

There has been an active slight of hand project operated to make people believe that the people calling themselves Jews are descended from the original Israelites that came out of Egypt with Moses. This is a simple fraud easy to debunk.

noone222  posted on  2005-03-16   16:09:25 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#222. To: Jhoffa_ (#212)

It's a pot smoking, burnt out, "party" towel from "South Park"

Oh, sorry ... I don't watch TELL - A - VISION

Thanks for the valuable update !

noone222  posted on  2005-03-16   16:13:10 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#223. To: Jhoffa_ (#220)

I like my Jews breaded & fried, with Sweet/Sour sauce and some red wine. (Christians are better with marinara.)

But more importantly - did you bring your towel??? I see Dak brought his!

CAPPSMADNESS  posted on  2005-03-16   16:14:02 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#224. To: crack monkey (#188)

Some think this is the flooding of the black sea and others think it was a meteor strike or volcanic erruption.

I understand that Einstein and Velikovsky had become close, and that Einstein was actually reading Velokovsky's Book at the time of his death.

Sometimes it's a blessing to NOT KNOW EVERYTHING ... Ask any Know-it-all !

noone222  posted on  2005-03-16   16:19:10 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#225. To: noone222 (#183)

I don't believe the Bible was written as a textbook. Nor was it a daily diary or log, for full of complete details of each and every conversation that took place.

Thus far, from my reading and listening, it seems that the Old Testament was written by people from their perspective, their 'worldview'.....which would not have been the entire globe as it know it today.

I saw where someone commented about Jonah in the whale's mouth and how they didn't believe the story. While I haven't looked it up in scripture yet, I've read where the word used was not actually 'whale', but something like sea creature or great sea creature.

Also, even if it were a whale, it's possible he wasn't swallowed into the stomach wehre acids were........or if he was, that the whale was sick and not making acids.

God, to be God, can do anything he wants---when he wants--and how he wants. His ways are not our ways. People, especially in todays' age, want instant gratification....they want what they want when they want it.

IF he has to answer to anybody, then he couldn't be the Alpha and Omega; he'd be just another little ol god out there somewhere.

rowdee  posted on  2005-03-16   16:21:56 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#226. To: noone222 (#224)

Sometimes it's a blessing to NOT KNOW EVERYTHING

I don't think we were intended to know everything, if we did, why would we look to God for answers?

(yes, I realize that not everyone on this thread looks to God) Even science has not provided us with all the answers yet. If it did, why are people still dying of Cancer or any other malady?

I wish there were a common ground. Who's to say that BOTH "theories" of how we got here (Faith based and Science based) did not happen?

CAPPSMADNESS  posted on  2005-03-16   16:23:39 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#227. To: rowdee (#225)

Let's be frank.. If you have an problem with dead people coming back to life, then you may as well just put the book down and go find something else to do.

It's simply not for everyone.. Some were not called.

Jhoffa_  posted on  2005-03-16   16:24:41 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#228. To: rowdee (#225)

God, to be God, can do anything he wants---when he wants--and how he wants. His ways are not our ways. People, especially in todays' age, want instant gratification....they want what they want when they want it.

And such is the basis of true faith. And the reason these squabbles take place. Science says "impossible" while Faith says "All things are possible".

CAPPSMADNESS  posted on  2005-03-16   16:26:20 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#229. To: Aric2000 (#208)

Actually, it we who should be laughing in a way.........

For people to believe they somehow evolved out of some black soupy mass out in the hinterlands of a 'universe of black hole(s)' is what is unbelievable.

You most certainly have the right to believe you evolved from monkeys.

Myself, I believe God breathed some of his essense or being into the man he created, Adam, that made mankind unique, superior to animals and plants.

rowdee  posted on  2005-03-16   16:29:57 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#230. To: CAPPSMADNESS (#218)

Glad you're here, too.

rowdee  posted on  2005-03-16   16:32:17 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#231. To: rowdee (#225)

I saw where someone commented

A very brilliant man, in my mind said: "I sure hope heaven is a very large kingdom because I can't stand most Christians and don't want to spend eternity around them"

The angst that we see has been created by phonies, selling Jerusalem sand, 100 lb. Bibles, and Maps of the Holy Land, while preaching self-righteousness as a prerequisite to salvation. The distance that these assholes have created between man and God is a felony.

noone222  posted on  2005-03-16   16:33:12 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#232. To: rowdee (#229)

I love it when they spout off about " Morality"

If there is no God, then their concept of what's "moral" is nothing more than the opinion of men.

And, as we know.. men can come up with some very diverse ideas in this area.

All of them cannot be correct and thus there is no true morality, except as defined by God himself.

Jhoffa_  posted on  2005-03-16   16:33:38 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#233. To: Jhoffa_ (#227)

Yes, that is as I read the scriptures.

rowdee  posted on  2005-03-16   16:34:43 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#234. To: CAPPSMADNESS (#228)

Science says "impossible" while Faith says "All things are possible".

While Greek Science said that the World was held up by a turtle on the shoulders of Atlas the Book Of Job said it was a circle and that the Moon "hung" upon nothing !

noone222  posted on  2005-03-16   16:35:17 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  



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