Secular Sabotage

[AnglRdr]

Secular Sabatoge, Bill Donahue's new book, is being promoted on the Catholic League's/his website. Please notice the last blurb.

[ElectricBarbarella]

Are you talking about Steve Colbert's comment? If so, way to take a tongue-in-cheek comment way out of proportion there, Mr. Donahue.

Yeah, Colbert said that, but it was so not meant to be quoted as a note of acceptance for this book. I hope Colbert rips him up for it.

[fitz1980]

I rather liked this one from Donahue's website.

http://catholicleague.org/release.php?id=1710
When we got word recently that the movie “2012” depicts the Vatican being blown up, along with the famous statue from Rio, Christ the Redeemer, we were unmoved. Why? Because this occurs during the end of the world in a massive destruction. This kind of sensationalism, we reasoned, is standard fare for director Roland Emmerich: he is the guru of the “blow ‘em up” genre of movies. But now we’ve learned that while Catholics get theirs, Muslims are spared. Out of fear, of course.

Emmerich is more than a coward—he is a liar who has it out for Catholics. Last year, he was quoted saying, “I would like to erase all nations and religions.” Not true. He is quite content to live with Islam, even though he readily admits it is a religion of terror. When asked why he did not show the destruction of Kaaba, the religious structure in the Grand Mosque in Mecca, he said, “I wanted to do that, I have to admit. You can actually let Christian symbols fall apart, but if you would do this with [an] Arab symbol, you would have…a fatwa.”

So why was the Sistine Chapel designated for destruction? “We have to show how this gets destroyed….I am against organized religion.” Emmerich lies again. He is not against Islam.

After bragging that the movie shows the Sistine Chapel falling on people’s heads, Emmerich explains the moral of the story: “Never pray in front of a big church. Pray by yourself.” He lies again: Muslims who want to pray in front of a mosque are safe. That’s because, as Emmerich sees it, they’re known to kill those who offend their religion.

Emmerich is many things but pro-Islam is not one of them. Even Donahue's own article admits to that. Emmerich is against religion in general but knows that Catholics will bitch and moan if he offends them, while radical Muslims could well try to murder him if he offends them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theo_va...film_director)

"2012" is a big dumb popcorn movie and Emmerich is a hypocrite because he's ok with offending some folks who may whine about it but doesn't want to offend those who may try to kill him for it?

[Lainie]

When we got word recently that the movie “2012” depicts the Vatican being blown up, along with the famous statue from Rio, Christ the Redeemer, we were unmoved. Why?

Because it's just a dumb action movie? No? Of course not.

[Mycroft]

The majority of his audience would not recognize the Kaaba; if empasizing the destruction of 'something Muslim' I would expect a disaster movie to destroy the pyramids

[Jahungo]

Originally Posted by ElectricBarbarella

Are you talking about Steve Colbert's comment? If so, way to take a tongue-in-cheek comment way out of proportion there, Mr. Donahue.

Yeah, Colbert said that, but it was so not meant to be quoted as a note of acceptance for this book. I hope Colbert rips him up for it.

It's so obvious that a really doubt this wasn't some sort of joke by someone on the inside. I mean, Colbert's quote isn't the type of thing one would use to promote a book, even if it was serious.

But I'm sure Colbert will find out about this and make a big deal of it on his show. It's what he does - he's created the perfect character, one who is incredibly self-promoting. He gets to "sell out" and have it be all a part of the joke. And it's hilarious.

[ElectricBarbarella]

Originally Posted by Jahungo

It's so obvious that a really doubt this wasn't some sort of joke by someone on the inside. I mean, Colbert's quote isn't the type of thing one would use to promote a book, even if it was serious.

But I'm sure Colbert will find out about this and make a big deal of it on his show. It's what he does - he's created the perfect character, one who is incredibly self-promoting. He gets to "sell out" and have it be all a part of the joke. And it's hilarious.

I <3 Colbert (and secretly crush on him). I just found it quite like Donahue to use something like that quote for promotion and actually believe it to be a real quote. It's par for the Donahue course, actually. Pharyngula often grabs from Donahue, these things. He's just so clueless, or I don't know the correct word other than a word that would get me banned.