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May 18, 2006
I came across an issue of US News (May 22) and the cover story is the Da Vinci Code *snore*
Funny thing in the article, though... a woman comes and asks her priest, "It says in here [DVC] that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were married and had a child together. Is that true?" and the priest is all, "That's when it struck me," [Rev. John] Skirtich recalled, "that ordinary believers—people in my own parish who are not theologically trained—were being deceived by the pseudo history presented in that book, and I knew I had to do something about it."
Translation: shit shit guys! The people we trained not to think or question us aren't thinking or questioning ANYTHING! Quick, do something!
Oh your parishioners are "theologically trained" all right... like puppies at obedience school. It's just difficult to get people to know who to listen to blindly and who to ignore, eh? As Dawn said in Huckabees when Brad offered to tell her what to listen to and what to ignore, "That's confusing!" And confusion and uncertainty are NOT what we come to religion for.
Here's to anything that antagonizes the keepers of a sacred cow. Maybe I'll even see the movie sometime.
Posted by Josh A. at May 18, 2006 10:07 AM