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Title: Top Cardinal Blasts 'Da Vinci Code' as 'Cheap Lies'
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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: 9541
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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#500. To: All, *LP Fag Funnies* (#499)
You guys wanna make fudge packer jokes about Trace21230?
Works.. Shows up in my pings.. Hey, consider making me and dak co-owners so we can use it also.
In certain South American dialects this roughly translates as: "Penguins Have Big Brown Tires". But in Baltimore and the environs it roughly translates as: "May I take your pet weasel for a walk?".
Hey, consider making me and dak co-owners so we can use it also. OK. I'll do it now.
Bless you my son..
It shold be working for you guys now. You are official co-owners. I'll put Flintlock on too.
Okay, ten seconds have passed.. it's time for the power struggle.. Dak, I think I've put more into his list than you ever have.. As such, my name should be above yours.
Is this like a stock certificate or something, can I peddle my influence on this new list to highest bidder?
I dunno about that.. But, it'd look good on a resume.
I am a subscription member, and as much, I expect quality entertainment from you fellows. ;0)
You can have ten extra points, take it or leave it.
Do you want to be a co-owner? We can arrange for an equity transfer. For a price of course.
Aw, shucks mam' We're too humble to take any kinda credit. You can thank Trace and his posse for yer' entertainments.
Sure - wanna be on my Thread Pirate Ping List??? What Price?????
Take it! But I get all your "Malboro Miles" for 6 weeks.. and options on the remainder of the quarter.
We report, you snicker.
LOL!
You have to compose a Zen Koan that speaks of Trace and his encounter with a Weasel.
Shakespear is good for credit also.. Ya know, something classy.. You know, like it genuinely belongs in great gay literature or shit like that.. Example: "Hark! What dark shadow breaks over left asscheek? It is the weasel!"
A what? You do know that you are speaking to a West Virginia girl here - i ain't very worldly. And I hear that the weasels are forming a union and rre soon to picket Tracey's anus due to it's unfair labor practices and unsafe working conditions. So I am legally unable to mention the weasels....
Or: "Et Tu, Weasel?"
ROFLMAO!
Sonnet of Trace and the Weasels
That's beautiful...
What on earth have I gotten myself into?? LMAO!
We need to go crawling back to Goldi and JimRob, then commence pilfering. I'll bet they both buy that expensive, name brand tissue paper.
You know that's where all the money's going..
Trace the Little Gay By the old Moulmeine pagoda,
A Haiku: by Cappy Born to hide weasels Whither doest thine arse hide, Trace? Home again at last! good enough??? or not descriptive enough?
The literal translation is "Shameless Faggot" Now, if you wanted to be politically correct you could say "Shameless Gay" in which case the initials would be S. G. kind of like the initials of my little neocon buddy. That can't be a coincidence.
Uh-oh. Oh woe is me..........that's almost enough to make me want to clean out my whole bozo filtering system in order to 'feel the love' that seems to be permeating this thread now! Nah! Close is good for horseshoes and grenades.......
AHOY Matey! You rang?
S.G.? As in GIBSON? Just kidding.
Thar's a new poster amoung us Mate - Be afraid!
eh? Who? Do tell......... We gonna get bozo'd again? I hope I know about it this time. It really sucks to get bozo'd and not get anything out of it.
Nah, it doesn't really hurt at all. ;)
Goes by the name of Thread Pirate, but only appears when the mystery bozoer shows up! I started a Thread Pirate Ping list, iffin ye are interested.
I started a Thread Pirate Ping list, iffin ye are interested. Yeah I be interested. I think I know what or who rather, your talking about;)
LOLOL! I love it and the other you got. Signed up for both!
Well, it could................
That is one serious set of "FM" shoes. She can hurt me all night long.
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#501. To: crack monkey (#500)
#502. To: All (#500)
Maricon sin verguenza
#503. To: Jhoffa_ (#501)
Shows up in my pings..
#504. To: crack monkey (#503)
#505. To: Jhoffa_, Dakmar, Flintlock (#504)
#506. To: crack monkey, *LP Fag Funnies* (#505)
#507. To: Jhoffa_, crack monkey, Tom Bishop, Zipporah (#501)
#508. To: Dakmar (#507)
#509. To: Jhoffa_ (#506)
#510. To: Jhoffa_ (#506)
#511. To: CAPPSMADNESS (#509)
#512. To: CAPPSMADNESS (#509)
#513. To: crack monkey (#511)
For a price of course.
#514. To: Dakmar (#510)
#515. To: Jhoffa_ (#512)
You can thank Trace and his posse for yer' entertainments.
#516. To: crack monkey (#515)
#517. To: CAPPSMADNESS (#513)
#518. To: CappsMadness (#517)
#519. To: crack monkey (#517)
You have to compose a Zen Koan
#520. To: All (#518)
#521. To: Jhoffa_ (#518)
"Hark! What dark shadow breaks over left asscheek? It is the weasel!"
#522. To: Jhoffa_ (#518)
An example
Thy weasels he loves,
And they, as pitying him,,
Knowing the weasel's hearts torment him with disdain,
Have put on Brown and loving morners be,,
Looking with pretty Ruth upon his posterior's pain,,
And surly not the morning son of heaven,,
Better becomes Trace's two cheeks,,
Nor that first full star of even, ,
Doth half that glory to his sober bung, ,
As those Brown weasels doth to his posterior,,
Oh let us then swear that beauty herself is brown,,
And all that is brown Trace's complection lacks.
#523. To: crack monkey (#522)
#524. To: crack monkey (#522)
#525. To: Jhoffa_ (#514)
#526. To: Dakmar (#525)
#527. To: Jhoffa_ (#523)
Look lazy on it's face,
There's a shitty weasel sitting,
And I know it thinks of Trace,
And the wind is in the palm trees,
And the temple bells they say,
Come ye back you little faggot,
Come ye back you little gay.
#528. To: crack monkey (#522)
#529. To: CAPPSMADNESS, Dakmar, Crack Monkey (#491)
What does that mean???
#530. To: noone222 (#492)
#531. To: CAPPSMADNESS (#467)
This thread needs a good highjacking. then I shall summon the Thread Pirates....
#532. To: Flintlock (#529)
#533. To: justlurking (#531)
AHOY Matey! You rang?
#534. To: CAPPSMADNESS (#533)
Thar's a new poster amoung us Mate - Be afraid!
#535. To: justlurking (#534)
#536. To: justlurking (#534)
eh? Who? Do tell
#537. To: CAPPSMADNESS (#536)
Goes by the name of Thread Pirate, but only appears when the mystery bozoer shows up!
#538. To: CAPPSMADNESS (#536)
I started a Thread Pirate Ping list, iffin ye are interested.
#539. To: Samuel Gray (#535)
Nah, it doesn't really hurt at all. ;)
#540. To: justlurking (#539)
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