Bounty offered for the head of the Da Vinci Code author

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New Delhi (ENI). Some Indian Christians are so incensed with the fictional blockbuster "The Da Vinci Code" they want the government to ban it and one Roman Catholic has offered a bounty of US$25 000 on the head of author Dan Brown, leaving other members of the faithful embarrassed by the reaction.


The Mumbai Catholic Council has threatened to stop the screening of the movie if the government fails to ban the recently released movie of the book. Another group called the Catholic Social Forum has said if the shows go ahead it will launch a death fast from 12 May.

Nicolas Almeida, a Catholic and former Mumbai municipal councillor, offered a reward of 1.1 million rupees ($25 000) for the head of author Brown, leading a Catholic journalist to compare Almeida to the Taliban.

Still, the autonomous Delhi Commission for Minorities joined Christian groups like the All India Christian Council calling for a ban on the movie.

The commission said the Da Vinci Code is "sheer blasphemy" and that it has "deeply upset Christian sentiments", in appealing on 10 May to the federal Censor Board to deny screening permission for the movie.

"In a country like ours where vicious propaganda is used against Christian minorities by Hindu bigots, the movie will be handy for them to tarnish our image," Arnold James, a Church of North India member and Christian representative in the Commission, told Ecumenical News International.

Archbishop Stanislaus Fernandes, secretary general of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of India, said the fictional work "belittles what is at the heart of Christian faith and cherished in Christian life", in a statement objecting to the release of the movie.

"Every individual has a right to his religious beliefs and to enjoy the respect to them from the followers of other religions," said the bishops' conference in an 11 May statement.

Some Catholics have, however, rebuffed the moves to ban the fictional work. "Offering bounty for the head of the author is a Taliban-like response," Kay Benedict, a Catholic journalist, told ENI. With their protests, he said, Catholics have ensured "more than enough publicity" for the movie in India. "The Christian faith is 2000 years old and it is not so fragile as to be destroyed by a single movie."
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edit: Free republic mods didn't like this. I posted it there and within a minute they removed it from the current events sections, off the main page, and stuck it into the "weird stuff" category. So now it sits among other topics such as "cheesemaker creates stilton perfume" and "man charged in dildo assault". Funny how sensitive they become when christianity is the one involved.
 
[quote name='assassinX']This is just a fictional movie, and they are willing to go on a death fast against it?[/QUOTE]

Haven't you seen the previews? It's going to reveal the greatest secret ever.

Jesus had kids! AND THEY'RE WALKING AMONG US TO THIS DAY!
 
its pathetic religion is suposed to bring people 2geather yet its most likely to be the cause of the war that ends humanity.
 
[quote name='alonzomourning23']http://www.eni.ch/articles/display.shtml?06-0391

edit: Free republic mods didn't like this. I posted it there and within a minute they removed it from the current events sections, off the main page, and stuck it into the "weird stuff" category. So now it sits among other topics such as "cheesemaker creates stilton perfume" and "man charged in dildo assault". Funny how sensitive they become when christianity is the one involved.[/QUOTE]

lol, you post over at free republic? :lol:
 
first person to bring me the severed head of the Mumbai Catholic Council's leader, on a platter - gets an entire box of devil dogs and all the money in my wallet. (about $17 if you get it done before lunch time)

i promise to sell it on Ebay and split the profits with you, as well.
 
[quote name='E-Z-B']lol, you post over at free republic? :lol:[/quote]

Occasionally, but not very often. I'm mostly a lurker. But I post occasionally when I want to see the response.

One guy denounced it, stating that he had no interest in articles "that are used to demonize christians or catholics".
 
"leaving other members of the faithful embarrassed by the reaction"
Is the most important line in that story.
To call this particular nut religious overlooks some serious mental ailment(s).
 
This is what makes america great! The separation of church and state and religious freedom.

only Catholics have a problem with this, not the whole of the Christian faith
 
[quote name='DuckM4n']This is what makes america great! The separation of church and state and religious freedom.

only Catholics have a problem with this, not the whole of the Christian faith[/quote]

Wait, what? Robertson, falwell etc. evangelicals, bapists etc. are great supporters of separation of church and state? I don't get that from listening to them, or from looking at the areas they are dominant.

I haven't heard many catholics advocating the joining of the two, and catholics seem one of the most liberal of the major christian groups.
 
How much would Jesus pay for Brown's head?

I love it when people get so wrapped up in the word, that they forget that Jesus was a hippy and all he did was love. The nightmare that is Christianity isnt what the lord intended. I wouldnt be surprised if God just turned away when we killed his son.
 
But you're forgetting God knew everything before he created us. So this is exactly what he expected. :lol:

[quote name='Mookyjooky']How much would Jesus pay for Brown's head?

I love it when people get so wrapped up in the word, that they forget that Jesus was a hippy and all he did was love. The nightmare that is Christianity isnt what the lord intended. I wouldnt be surprised if God just turned away when we killed his son.[/quote]
 
[quote name='Mookyjooky']How much would Jesus pay for Brown's head?

I love it when people get so wrapped up in the word, that they forget that Jesus was a hippy and all he did was love. The nightmare that is Christianity isnt what the lord intended. I wouldnt be surprised if God just turned away when we killed his son.[/quote]

Yeah really, as bad as American christians are, these Indian chrsitians are acting like the Muslims.
 
Haha you can't buy all this good publicity.

[quote name='Kayden']:rofl: Love they neighbor... unless he doesn't think like you- then you put a bounty on his heathen ass.[/quote]

So true - nothing good ever comes out of religion.
 
[quote name='Mookyjooky']How much would Jesus pay for Brown's head?

I love it when people get so wrapped up in the word, that they forget that Jesus was a hippy and all he did was love. The nightmare that is Christianity isnt what the lord intended. I wouldnt be surprised if God just turned away when we killed his son.[/QUOTE]

WWJD

Who Would Jesus Dismember?
 
[quote name='alonzomourning23']A lot of times you remind me of myself, when I was 14 anyway. Religion was such a simple thing back then.[/quote]

:lol:

While we're slinging ad hominems, you secretly wish that you had a spine. Your passive-agressive attacks expose your emasculation at the feet of the PC altar. You remind me of a dechristianized Ned Flanders, favorite flavor vanilla, favorite drink water.
 
Um, the idea that Jesus had children is nothing new. Why are these people not attacking the authors of Holy Blood, Holy Grail? I believe they were the first to publish the theory that Jesus did not die on the cross, and that book is well over 20 years old! Some people may argue that The Da Vinci Code stole its plot from Holy Blood, Holy Grain.
 
Because it's not a movie.

Besides, Dan Brown actually thinks his work of fiction is REAL. That guy is more full of shit than a farm.
 
[quote name='AFStealth']Besides, Dan Brown actually thinks his work of fiction is REAL.[/QUOTE]

Huh? I know people think L Ron Hubbard's fiction is real, and perhaps he did too. I've admittedly kept my head in the sand about this book, and the movie, for as long as it's been popular, so I don't know much, if anything, about it. Can you link an article or interview where he says so?

Then again, this one fucking book has become its own cottage industry, so perhaps he's just schlepping it up to keep people buying.
 
[quote name='mykevermin']Huh? I know people think L Ron Hubbard's fiction is real, and perhaps he did too. I've admittedly kept my head in the sand about this book, and the movie, for as long as it's been popular, so I don't know much, if anything, about it. Can you link an article or interview where he says so?

Then again, this one fucking book has become its own cottage industry, so perhaps he's just schlepping it up to keep people buying.[/quote]

There was a special, I believed it was the one titled "beyond the da vinci code" where they were looking at all the claims and seeing if there was any evidence to support them. At one point they showed an interview with Dan Brown where he claims that the claims sparking the controversy are indeed historical fact. The author of a book making similar claims, holy blood holy grail, echoed the same view.

His claim didn't come out of a vacuum. He may be faking it, but if he really does believe this occured he wouldn't be alone, even before he published the book, just part of a miniscule minority.
 
Far be it from me to support some kind of Catholic fatwa ... but if this keeps any more of Brown's atrocious fiction from being published, then I may have to reconsider my feelings on religious zealots.
 
[quote name='RedvsBlue']Remember kids only the muslim extremist terrorists offer bounties on the heads of those they don't like.[/QUOTE]

The difference here is that prominent Imams were calling for Rushdie's death. In this case it's a few christian "social groups" being idiots, not offical representatives for the religion as a whole. There is a huge difference between Joe O'sullivan say he thinks Dan Brown should die and having a Bishop of the roman catholic church calling for his beheading to satisfy god's will.

Some may remember the Ayatolla Khomeni, (a head of state, no less) was the first to call for the fatwa against Rushdie. It's a convenient omission by those that would rush to condemn Christianity at any turn. The situations are nowhere close to being equal.
 
[quote name='alonzomourning23']There was a special, I believed it was the one titled "beyond the da vinci code" where they were looking at all the claims and seeing if there was any evidence to support them. At one point they showed an interview with Dan Brown where he claims that the claims sparking the controversy are indeed historical fact. The author of a book making similar claims, holy blood holy grail, echoed the same view.

[/quote]

I saw that same special, and (one of) the authors of Holy Blood, Holy Grail stated "the fact is there ARE NO FACTS, and we don't really know for sure what the truth is". Doesn't sound to me like he's eating his own dog food.
 
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