{"id":800,"date":"2006-05-08T19:05:56","date_gmt":"2006-05-09T00:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/cosmicvariance\/2006\/05\/08\/suppressing-the-da-vinci-code\/"},"modified":"2006-05-08T19:05:56","modified_gmt":"2006-05-09T00:05:56","slug":"suppressing-the-da-vinci-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/08\/suppressing-the-da-vinci-code\/","title":{"rendered":"Suppressing The Da Vinci Code"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cardinal Francis Arinze is suggesting that good Catholics should <a href=\"http:\/\/today.reuters.com\/news\/newsarticle.aspx?type=entertainmentNews&amp;storyID=2006-05-07T141257Z_01_L07736154_RTRUKOC_0_US-VATICAN-DAVINCI.xml&amp;pageNumber=0&amp;imageid=&amp;cap=&amp;sz=13&amp;WTModLoc=NewsArt-C1-ArticlePage1\">take legal action<\/a> against <em>The Da Vinci Code<\/em> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/volokh.com\/archives\/archive_2006_05_07-2006_05_13.shtml#1147039211\">Volokh<\/a>).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the latest Vatican broadside against &#8220;The Da Vinci Code&#8221;, a leading cardinal says Christians should respond to the book and film with legal action because both offend Christ and the Church he founded. Cardinal Francis Arinze, a Nigerian who was considered a candidate for pope last year, made his strong comments in a documentary called &#8220;The Da Vinci Code &#8212; A Masterful Deception.&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Christians must not just sit back and say it is enough for us to forgive and to forget,&#8221; Arinze said in the documentary made by Rome film maker Mario Biasetti for Rome Reports, a Catholic film agency specializing in religious affairs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sometimes it is our duty to do something practical. So it is not I who will tell all Christians what to do but some know legal means which can be taken in order to get the other person to respect the rights of others,&#8221; Arinze said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I like the bit about how Christians shouldn&#8217;t just forgive and forget.  I&#8217;m no expert, but aren&#8217;t there <a href=\"http:\/\/www.keyway.ca\/htm2002\/cheek.htm\">some religions<\/a> that preach otherwise?<\/p>\n<p>No word as to whether Pope Benedict is considering issuing a <em>fatwa<\/em> against Dan Brown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cardinal Francis Arinze is suggesting that good Catholics should take legal action against The Da Vinci Code (via Volokh). In the latest Vatican broadside against &#8220;The Da Vinci Code&#8221;, a leading cardinal says Christians should respond to the book and film with legal action because both offend Christ and the Church he founded. Cardinal Francis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/preposterousuniverse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}