The Da Vinci bigots

I’m astounded by the flap over the Da Vinci Code. Author Dan Brown and star Tom Hanks have conceded that the story is a fake. Although Brown, taking a page from Dan Rather I suppose, said he believed it. That takes the oddity of fake but true to the next level. Sure the book is fiction but what it alleges is…uhm…the bible.

I doubt that the Da Vinci Code will shake the beliefs of any true believer. Nor will it serve as a catalyst to convert agnostics, atheists or theists. Unfortunately, the Da Vinci Code will serve as the talking points for uninformed bigoted anti-Catholic buffoons.

Dopes that have no idea that for 99.9999% of Catholics who practice it, mortification amounts to nothing more than passing up sweats and meat on Fridays during lent. None the less, after Da Vinci, anti-Catholic fools will be talking about hair shirts and self-flagellation. Idiots who don’t know that pedophilia is more common in American homes, schools and the Protestant religion as a percentage than in the Catholic church will use Da Vinci as proof positive Catholics are all murdering bastards. Witless fools who hate Catholics because Notre Dame has the best fight song and at regular intervals one of the best teams in college football, will use Da Vinci as the smoking gun proving once and for all that Catholics are an evil cult and should be banned from the NCAA just like that other ultimate evil the Indian mascot.

I’ve not read the book, but from what I’ve heard and read about it, it seems to me that Da Vinci pretty much rips off several other successful anti-Catholic “art forms” such as Jesus Christ Superstar with regard to Mary Magdalene; Godfather III with regard to corruption in the highest levels of the church; Piss Christ with regard to cinematic joy provided to Catholic bashers and Dung Mary for gratuitous assaults on the religion religious bigots love to hate.

Through it all the Catholic Church thrived and grew under the charismatic and energetic leadership of Pope John Paul the Great. John Paul is gone, but those damn Catholics had the nerve to elect one of John Paul’s acolytes as their new Pope. Now it appears that the church will remain strong and in good hands long after Dan Brown becomes - Dan who?