More Catholic Tyranny

I’m surprised it took religious radicals this long to turn on The DaVinci Code. The book was never the object of organized derision, but the power of film seems to have prompted Catholic officials to call for a boycott of the movie.

Which is yet another example of a religious sect organized around the principle of tyranny. The ossified Vatican can’t entertain opinions contradicting their longstanding superstitions and edicts (even when those edicts were flawed or errant to begin with). The popularity of The DaVinci Code has become a huge, corrosive threat to their religious mythology.

Sadly, it seems more important to maintain the power and authority of the Pope and Church than to assist people in deepening their connection with the mystery of creation. But then, the Vatican has always been a shining outpost of fundamentalism, claiming to know with absolute certainty the truth of creation and the creator.

As I've said before, anyone who claims to know with absolute certainty the nature and will of God is dangerous and deluded. Nothing could be more frightening or corrupting than a group who has chosen superstition over common sense, logic, reason and science. “Seventy virgins in paradise” is no more or less crazy than “He was born of a virgin.”

Birds of a feather, crazy together.

I'll be sure to see The DaVinci Code. I suspect it will be highly entertaining.