The Catholic-bashing hate-fest film, based on an equally ill-informed and venomous book, was realeased in May 2009.
Be informed though. It is error-ridden, but the errors are presented as irrefutable fact.
Be informed. Know the true facts, then, if you really want to waste your hard-earned cash, enoy the fiction.
Here are some useful sites:
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/aleigh/2009/05/01/demonizing-angels/#more-121966
http://fratres.wordpress.com/2009/03/25/angels-demons-joseph-dias-separates-truth-from-lies-in-the-book-joins-the-catholic-league-in-calling-for-boycott-of-the-catholic-bashing-film/
Be informed, since as a Catholic Chrisitan you'll be asked about what you think. Be ready with a simple presentation fo the facts. Here's one or two to set you up (There are many many more...):
* Brown claims: Copernicus was murdered by the Catholic Church.
* Fact: Copernicus died quietly in bed at age 70 from a stroke, and his research was supported by Church officials; he even dedicated his masterwork to the Pope.
* Brown claims: “Antimatter is the ultimate energy source. It releases energy with 100% efficiency.”
* Fact: CERN, the lab which plays an important role in his story, have actually disclaimed this claim on their website: “The inefficiency of antimatter production is enormous: you get only a tenth of a billion of the invested energy back.” Let 's face it, if Dan Brown can't get the serious scientific detail something close to resembling fact, then what chance the truths of the Catollic Faith?
* Brown claims: Churchill was a “staunch Catholic.”
* Fact: Any history buff could tell you that Churchill wasn’t Catholic, he was Anglican; nor was he particularly religious. The only things Churchill was staunch about were cigars, whiskey, and defending the British Empire.
* Brown claims: Pope Urban VII banished Bernini’s famous statue The Ecstasy of St. Teresa “to some
obscure chapel across town” because it was too racy for the Vatican.
* Fact: The statue was actually commissioned by Cardinal Cornaro specifically for the Cornaro Chapel (Brown’s “obscure chapel”). Moreover, the sculpture was completed in 1652 — eight years after Urban’s death.
* Brown claims: Bernini and famed scientist Galileo were members of the Illuminati.
* Fact: The Illuminati was founded in Bavaria in 1776. Bernini died in 1680, while Galileo died in 1642 — more than a century before the Illuminati were first formed.
Be informed of the facts, then see the fiction.
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