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Author Topic: Can't we leave Catholics alone?  (Read 1473 times)

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LiquidWave32

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Can't we leave Catholics alone?
« on: May 24, 2009, 10:58:17 AM »

With Angels and Demons out now and all the buzz about it, I thought to myself, why does it seem like the Catholic church is portrayed in movies like the Da Vinci Code or in internet conspiracy theories as being this super oppressive, illuminati-esque organization, yet people seem to act like it's okay to portray catholics that way. If I made a movie or book about Jews or Israel in the same style as Dan Brown's novels, I'd be doing PSA's in a heartbeat. Is it okay to demonize Catholics, but not Jews,Blacks, or Muslims :-\
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Re: Can't we leave Catholics alone?
« Reply #1 on: May 24, 2009, 12:54:07 PM »

the Catholic church is portrayed in movies like the Da Vinci Code or in internet conspiracy theories as being this super oppressive, illuminati-esque organization, yet people seem to act like it's okay to portray catholics that way.


I think that's better than their real life rep as a haven for pedophiles.
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LiquidWave32

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Re: Can't we leave Catholics alone?
« Reply #2 on: May 24, 2009, 01:14:27 PM »

but why is it that when someone does something bad, we tend to look at them like they did that wrong because they were Catholic or Jewish or whatever, rather than looking at them for who they are as a negative person. Teachers in public schools are pedophiles too, but when they get caught, it doesn't seem like we give the public school system a "rep" as much we do the Catholic church, at least not media wise.

Not only that, concerning conspiracy movies, books, and theories on the Catholic church, it seems like nobody really cares or says its wrong, but if you did the SAME exact thing only with some other group like Jews, you'd be greatly criticized. Yet it's perfectly okay to demonize Catholics? I don't know, it just seems like a crooked standard Americans seem to follow.
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Re: Can't we leave Catholics alone?
« Reply #4 on: May 24, 2009, 01:29:52 PM »

And to boot public schools do have a rep in the media... underfunded. 
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LiquidWave32

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Re: Can't we leave Catholics alone?
« Reply #5 on: May 24, 2009, 01:54:10 PM »

but are the people like that because they're Catholic or are they like that because of their own choices? I'm not Catholic, but when somebody does something wrong who is Catholic, I think they are responsible for their own actions, I don't think Catholicism has any real part in their actions other than how the INDIVIDUALS manipulated it to follow their own ambitions.

No Catholic I have ever met is anything like the ones that get news coverage.
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Re: Can't we leave Catholics alone?
« Reply #6 on: May 24, 2009, 02:17:28 PM »

"we" as a forum were leaving them alone before you made this thread ;)
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Re: Can't we leave Catholics alone?
« Reply #7 on: May 24, 2009, 02:38:08 PM »

 it seems like people make others seem evil because of their affiliations rather than their overall character.
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Re: Can't we leave Catholics alone?
« Reply #8 on: May 24, 2009, 02:53:40 PM »

"we" as a forum were leaving them alone before you made this thread ;)

You know we were all secretly thinking about how much we hate those damn Catholics.



it seems like people make others seem evil because of their affiliations rather than their overall character.

Your right. I like the cut of this guys jib.





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LiquidWave32

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Re: Can't we leave Catholics alone?
« Reply #9 on: May 24, 2009, 03:05:42 PM »

What I mean is that would be wrong for you to say "Germans are racist bastards because the Nazi Party was German." Judging people by affiliations instead of character in that sense.
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