October 8, 2010 • Blogger Blames Christians For Gay Suicides Claims a direct “relationship between the gay teen suicide rate, and the common, absolute Christian condemnation of gays.”
September 14, 2010 • Maher: ‘I’m Against a Church Anywhere’ Comedian says churches, synagogues, temples shouldn’t be built to ‘retell nonsense stories,’ worship ‘imaginary friend.’
July 2, 2010 • USA Today Touts Atheist Summer Camp Meredith Heagney highlights one-sided article about atheist summer camp that allows ‘poking fun at faith.’
May 24, 2010 • Lefty Rev. Attacks Beck for Crying ‘Socialism’ Jim Wallis, who believes the Gospels are redistributionist, calls out Glenn Beck for questioning Obama’s faith-based initiative act to merge EPA with churches.
March 30, 2010 • The Religion Blog That Hates Religion Huffington Post's new effort lists 'crusader-jihadist mentality,' 'rejection of science' as 'dangerous side-effects' of faith.
February 9, 2010 • Anne Hathaway Leaves Church to Media Cheers Actress cites Catholic position on homosexuality; USA Today and The Huffington Post call the Church ‘intolerant.’
January 15, 2010 •
Europe’s Decadent Education Lithuania draws ire of European Union for passing pro-family law.
January 13, 2010 • Secular Left Cries Foul on Religion in Sports From Brit Hume and Tiger Woods to Tim Tebow and scripture, liberals don’t get sports and Christianity. But they sure are offended by it.
November 25, 2009 • Joy Behar: 'Tis the Season…to be Gay CNN show hosts panel that claims the holidays are a great time for homosexuals to come out of the closet.
November 19, 2009 • Newsweek’s Lisa Miller Labels Passion of the Christ 'Anti-Semitic' Magazine ranked Tina Fey’s portrayal of Sarah Palin, the beginning of American Idol, and the death of Michael Jackson ahead of movie on list of Top 10 cultural moments in the last decade.
May 26, 2009 • Sex, More Sex and Jesus? Analysis of ABC’s “Faith Matters” segments reveals network preoccupation with sexuality and Christianity.
May 22, 2009 • A Tale of Two Violent Movies Hollywood’s business decisions show where their religious and political sensibilities overrule their business sense - and any sense of right and wrong.
May 4, 2009 • Opie Gets Ugly When the conglomerates behind the viciously anti-Catholic book "The DaVinci Code" were looking for a director, Newsweek reported Ron Howard had a secret weapon: his aw-shucks child-star Opie Taylor likeability. "Ron is not a polarizer," said one. "We all knew the book was quite controversial, and we were ready for that. But we didn’t want to add to it."
In that same article in 2006, it became clear that Howard wasn’t going to make the film less vicious (or less filled with historical lies and distortions) than the book. There would be "no placating. It would be ludicrous to take on this subject and try to take the edges off. We’re doing this movie because we like the book." (Emphasis his.)
This is where the aw-shucks routine goes out the window. It’s one thing to say you like a good mystery with historical overtones. It’s another thing to say you like a fiction book that paints the Catholic Church as an evil nest of lying murderers conspiring to protect the lie that Jesus Christ is God.
Then consider that "DaVinci Code" author Dan Brown repeatedly has claimed that his wild-eyed conspiracy theories are true. The book even carried the statement that "All descriptions of artwork, architecture, documents and secret rituals in this novel are accurate."
Now "no-placating" Howard is back, pushing a new movie version of a Brown book called "Angels & Demons." In a nasty article on the Huffington Post website, Howard spat at William Donohue of the Catholic League: "I guess Mr. Donohue and I do have one thing in common: we both like to create fictional tales, as he has done with his silly and mean-spirited work of propaganda."
As the psychologists say, Ron Howard is projecting. That is a perfect summary of the Dan Brown novels: silly and mean-spirited works of propaganda.
Howard claims "neither I nor ‘Angels & Demons’ are anti-Catholic. And let me be a little controversial: I believe Catholics, including most in the hierarchy of the Church, will enjoy the movie for what it is: an exciting mystery, set in the awe-inspiring beauty of Rome."
That’s not controversial. It’s insane. It’s a tactic, just like Howard’s partner Brian Grazer reacted during the "DaVinci" publicity tour in 2006, when Katie Couric asked him how the group Opus Dei would respond to its portrayal. They were dishonestly and ridiculously painted as a murderous cult, but Grazer said with a straight face: "I think they’ll be happy with the movie, ultimately."
Howard complained that the Catholic League "accuses us of lying when our movie trailer says the Catholic Church ordered a brutal massacre to silence the Illuminati centuries ago. It would be a lie if we had ever suggested our movie is anything other than a work of fiction."
Check the "we" and the "ever" in that sentence. Howard is easily exposed as dishonest by a sentence on Dan Brown’s own website about the book: "It is historical fact that the Illuminati vowed vengeance against the Vatican in the 1600's. The early Illuminati - those of Galileo’s day - were expelled from Rome by the Vatican and hunted mercilessly." (Emphasis mine.)
The trailer lies exactly like that. The announcer introduces the Tom Hanks character: "He exposed one of the greatest coverups in human history." A woman whispers "DaVinci!" Hanks explains: "The Illuminati were a secret society dedicated to scientific truth. The Catholic Church ordered a brutal massacre to silence them forever." At the end of the trailer, Hanks proclaims: "This is it. This is the truth!"
So who is doing the lying, Opie?
Movie watchers are going to think large chunks of this story are actual human history, and the trailer has no disclaimer about how this scientist-murdering-church narrative is pure fantasy. The real Illuminati originated in Bavaria in 1776 (long after Galileo died) and fizzled out a decade later. The Catholic Church never murdered a single member of the Illuminati.
A Catholic blogger who calls himself the Curt Jester ably underlined how audacious and ridiculous Howard sounds. He satirically proclaimed his own film project: "I am producing a movie on Ron Howard’s family. In the movie based on my research I say his father was a drug pusher, and his mother is a prostitute, and that Ron Howard engages in S&M....I will present the Howard family as something totally based on lies, and question whether his parents really were his parents in the first place." And "of course this is just a movie, so people should not be upset about my portrayal of the Howard family at all."
He then predicted the Howard family would enjoy it as an exciting mystery. Ron Howard should read this and understand exactly what his cinematic versions of Dan Brown hate-speeches feel like to Catholics.
PS: See Andrew Leigh at Big Hollywood, especially the part where Howard & Co. are trying to tamp down any offense taken by Muslims.
March 19, 2009 • No Restraint Necessary An NBC report attacks Pope Benedict for daring to suggest that condoms are not the end-all and be-all to AIDS prevention.
March 16, 2009 • Big War Over ‘Big Love’ CBS Early Show feigns concern over sacred Mormon temple scene in HBO’s series “Big Love.”
February 23, 2009 • Oscars Recipe: Mixing 'Milk' With Politics
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February 20, 2009 • Networks Ignore Condom Ad That Offends Christians ABC, CBS and NBC pass right over an outrageous story about a university condom ad featuring a famous Sistine Chapel religious painting.
February 16, 2009 • ABC Shortchanges Christians on Sunday
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World News Sunday features a controversial spiritual teacher
and names his supporters, but not his Christian dissenters.
February 3, 2009 •Public Pans Obama’s Abortion Action Gallup finds Obama's overseas abortion funding decision least popular. Will media continue its silence on the issue?
December 17, 2008 • ABC Mocks Missing Messiah ‘Good Morning America’ laughs off prevention as ‘Baby Jesus LoJack,’ even joins in “fun” by swiping a wise man.
December 15, 2008 • Farewell to Liberalism's Legal Advocate ABC's Boston Legal was little more than liberal propaganda thinly disguised as entertainment. Conservatives shouldn’t be heartbroken to see it go.
December 5, 2008 • Grinch-o-Meter ALERT! Politically correct holiday nonsense is picking up steam, especially in schools.
December 3, 2008 • Is “Under God” Outdated? A Washington Post/Newsweek writer calls for removing God from the Pledge of Allegiance, amid a little-reported eruption of pre-Christmas attacks on faith.
November 19, 2008 • O’Reilly Alone Reports Gay Attack on Christians Homosexuals enraged over Prop. 8 physically and sexually assault a group of religious believers innocently praying in a public place, and this isn’t news?
November 17, 2008 • Hollywood’s Morals ≠ America’s Morals A new poll confirms a CMI study’s findings that Americans believe their moral values are being assaulted by Hollywood and the national media.
November 13, 2008 • Media Have a Proposition for Calif. Churches: You’re Bigots Two days after California voters upheld man-woman marriage by voting for Prop. 8, the media stopped reporting the facts and started beating its “civil rights” drum.
November 6, 2008 • Media, McCain Ignored Key Issues Conservative values still resonate with the public. Obama ran to the right of McCain on social and fiscal issues, and the media ignored the contradictions to his record.
November 5, 2008 • The Enduring Culture War Some pundits claim the political battles over moral values are effectively at an end. They're kidding themselves.
October 30, 2008 • Palin, Jesus and Witches??? Newsweek caricatures Palin’s faith one week before the presidential election, even raising the specter of anti-Semitism.
October 21, 2008 • Worshiping Obama The cult of personality is verging on idolatry.
October 10, 2008 • Fox’s Lying, Slacker Jesus The people at Fox Entertainment clearly don’t care one iota about offending the millions of Christians who see Jesus as the central figure in their hopes for eternal salvation. To them, God is just an empty punch line.
October 10, 2008 • Fox’s Lying, Slacker Jesus The people at Fox Entertainment clearly don’t care one iota about offending the millions of Christians who see Jesus as the central figure in their hopes for eternal salvation. To them, God is just an empty punch line.
September 9, 2008 • The Cost of Killing Palinzilla The liberal media's all-out assault on the faith and character of the GOP vice presidential nominee comes at a steep price: credibility.
September 9, 2008 • Palin Heat Threatens Planet The reaction of the media and assorted leftwingers to the GOP vice presidential nominee seems a trifle overwrought.
August 15, 2008 • Ellen to Wed Portia; What about DOMA? The Hollywood same-sex nuptials give the media a tremendous opportunity to address the issue of same-sex ‘marriage,’ the Defense of Marriage Act and Democratic support of California’s gay marriage ruling. Will they take it?
August 6, 2008 • ABC Tells Story of Faith in Tragedy Good Morning America explores how religious belief is helping the Steven Curtis Chapman family cope with the death of their daughter.
August 1, 2008 • Jerry Springer, Opera Man? This spectacle’s defenders suggest this isn’t a mockery of Christianity. That’s about as plausible as a Klansman saying the burning cross is merely for roasting marshmallows.
July 25, 2008 • WaPo Snickers as Sacrilegious Show Comes to D.C. Even as a Catholic group protests the premiere of “Jerry Springer: The Opera,” The Washington Post raises little concern over the show’s content.
July 21, 2008 • A Guide to the Movie Galaxy Dr. Thomas Hibbs finds a silver lining in Hollywood’s dark cloud of despair.
July 21, 2008 • ABC, CBS Spotlight Suffering Illegal Immigrants Both networks provide rare favorable reports about churches—churches that offer sanctuary to the ‘undocumented’ in acts of “nonviolent civil disobedience.”
July 2, 2008 •Washington Post Tells the Truth about ‘Safe Sex’ -- Then Ignores It A guest columnist exposes PC ideologues jeopardizing an effective morality-based AIDS prevention program in Uganda, while a house editorial calls for more of the failed condom approach here in the U.S.
June 23, 2008 • ABC: Evangelicals ‘Buzzing’ Over Obama World News Sunday promotes “unprecedented” campaign to woo “millions” and highlights importance of the abortion issue in the process.
June 18, 2008 • ABC Reporter Sides with Hollywood against Rome Good Morning America’s Nick Watt sneers at the Vatican for refusing to allow a Catholic-bashing movie to be filmed in historic churches.
June 17, 2008 • ‘The Sky Is Not Falling’ - Yet Get used to hearing this term in the coming weeks, as the media interview pro-homosexual spokesmen about same-sex marriage in California.
May 16, 2008 • Media Follow Gay Script on Marriage Ruling News coverage celebrates the California Supreme Court's creation of a new 'right,' but ignores the moral concerns and the infringement on the public's right to self-government.
May 15, 2008 • Religion: How ABC Loathes Thee Boston Legal episode is a vehicle for anti-religious propaganda under the guise of entertainment.
May 9, 2008 • Planting the Seeds of a Demographic Winter If a two-person household is that bad, what does that make families with children? Environmental criminals, at the least, and maybe earth wreckers.
May 6, 2008 • NBC Showcases Heartthrob with a Message Bella star Eduardo Verastegui appeared on Today to promote the movie's DVD release, but revealed how he found deeper meaning in life than fame and fortune.
May 6, 2008 • Left Wing and Wright Brained? Liberal media pundits are trying to excuse Barack Obama’s 20-year ties to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright by suggesting that Wright’s ravings are no worse than a single comment by Jerry Falwell.
May 2, 2008 • Profiles in Cowardice, Unreported Smith College allows militant lesbians to silence a speaker; APA, pressured by gay activists, cancels a panel on therapy for homosexuals. Liberal media ignore both stories.
April 30, 2008 • Obama’s ‘Pastor Souljah’ Moment Media hope Obama has put the Wright controversy behind him, but important questions yet unasked must be answered first.
April 24, 2008 • Abstinence Education: Bias on the Hill and in the Press Neither the LA Times nor Reuters reported that "comprehensive" sex education -- condoms and contraceptives -- receives 12 times more funding than no-sex-before-marriage programs.
April 23, 2008 • Gaiag Me with a Spoon No subject, not even Barack Obama and the New Camelot, inspires reporters to drop any pretense of balance and objectivity like the Environment.
April 23, 2008 •Expelled Opens with a Bang Big Media's reviewers panned the movie, but the public had the last laugh.
April 14, 2008 • Obama’s Retiring Pastor: Jefferson a Pedophile The Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s explosive accusation against Thomas Jefferson was not reported by the Associated Press and the Chicago Sun-Times, though the audio is on the newspaper’s Web site.
April 14, 2008 • For Obama, How Bitter It Is ABC, NBC soft-pedaled the candidate’s remark lumping religion in with racism, and ignored the message about his values.
April 2, 2008 • Soldiers ‘Experiencing God’ a Problem for Newsweek The Beliefwatch column suggests we can’t have thousands of U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan reading a Christian devotional book, lest people think the government favors a certain religion.
April 2, 2008 • Expelled Encounters Hostility from the Liberal Media Documentary exposes the academy’s emotional and ideological commitment to evolution, and its anti-scientific exclusion of evidence for intelligent design.
March 28, 2008 • ABC Follows ‘Born Gay’ Script to a T Good Morning America promotes the latest gay gene study, and marginalizes the opposing scientific voice by labeling him as religious.
March 18, 2008 • Obama’s Church of Slurs Barack Obama looks phony either way. Either he missed all of these sermons or he sincerely thinks that hateful, race-baiting, America-bashing sermons are part of a pleasant Sunday worship experience. The press has an obligation to pursue this.
March 14, 2008 • Lewis Black, Anti-Catholic Hack Black is the star of a brand new Comedy Central show named The Root of All Evil. Comedians act like prosecutors, with Black as judge, trying to determine which of two allegedly evil forces is worse. The battle for the debut episode: Oprah Winfrey vs. the Catholic Church.
March 7, 2008 • Sermon from Mt. Obama Raises Big Questions Barack Obama has expounded his revised standard version of the Sermon on the Mount, but the MSM couldn’t care less if Obama waxes theological from here to eternity.
March 3, 2008 • Clueless in Obama Nation On Sunday, at Hocking College in Nelsonville, Ohio, Sen. Obama promoted homosexual legal civil unions in answer to a question posed by a pastor, and then threw out this challenge: “If people find that controversial then I would just refer them to the Sermon on the Mount, which I think is, in my mind, for my faith, more central than an obscure passage in Romans.”
February 27, 2008 • Bill Buckley Made It Okay to Be a Conservative I was a conservative as a kid, but fell under the sway of liberal profs and the New Age culture. But Buckley was a key force in pulling me back to reality.
February 4, 2008 • ABC Casts Stones at Evangelical Financial Advisers Anchor Dan Harris challenges the ‘quality’ of advice proffered by counselors who apply Biblical principles to money, mortgages, and credit cards.
December 26, 2007 • Cleverly Firing Back at Atheism The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Bible fires back at the cultural clout atheists in America have been enjoying.
December 20, 2007 • Whoopi and Joy Spar Over Huckabee Christmas Ad ABC The View co-host Joy Behar takes offense when a Republican Christian politician appeals to ‘the Christian right base of the Republican party.’
December 14, 2007 • ABC’s Walters Disses White House Christmas Card “I don’t remember—and I’m sure people will remind me— getting a religious card. Now does this also go to agnostics and atheists and Muslims and -”
December 12, 2007 • Another Twisted Christmas Red Bull commandeers the Nativity for a commercial, and the BBC corrupts the Nativity into a politically correct pop concert.
December 4, 2007 • Going Off a Cliff at the Chronicle A San Francisco columnist explains why he loves The Golden Compass -- because he hates religion and religious people. Why does an ostensibly mainstream newspaper like the Chronicle publish such venomous hate speech?
December 3, 2007 •
The Golden Compass and the Atheist Blitzkrieg Every dollar spent on the movie and its merchandise increases the likelihood that the entire God-hating trilogy will make it to your local theater - so that untold numbers of children will be propagandized by a story that attacks traditional religious beliefs.
November 30, 2007 • The Golden Compass Points Kids the Wrong Way Unfortunately, this is part of being a responsible parent today. You have to be a kind of cultural food-taster for your children. Borrow Mr. Pullman’s three books from your local library -- we don’t advise you to buy them -- and see for yourself what’s in them.
November 28, 2007 •Newsweek Writer Enjoys Atheist Denouncing the Conservative 'Nitwit' At this point a critic must ask: as much as he enjoyed the denunciation of Donohue, did Gordon check out Pullman’s assertion of having no greater agenda than telling a rip-roaring tale? Even Snopes.com thinks Pullman’s hostility to religion is no urban legend.
November 21, 2007 • Hillary's No Moral Conservative To describe Hillary Clinton as a 'moral conservative' is upside down and backwards.
November 19, 2007 • Praying for Hollywood ABC positively reports on a prayer network for celebrities but can't avoid the tabloid trap.
November 16, 2007 • Traditional Values Losing at William & Mary While the vets proudly marched nearby, the second oldest university in the nation was officially dissing the faith that launched the American Revolution as -- you guessed it -- not inclusive enough.
November 9, 2007 • The Golden Compass Fraud Isn’t it a bit perverse to head into the Christmas holiday season hyping an atheist fantasy movie for kids?
November 2, 2007 • Satire or Childish Blasphemy? Sarah Silverman portrays God as an arrogant, pot-smoking, foul-mouthed boyfriend she can't wait to dump.
October 30, 2007 • Skank-o-ween 2007 For young girls, the costume trend is all about being sexy.
October 30, 2007 • Media Silent on Boycott as Ford’s Sales Continue to Plunge The automaker’s sales have declined for 17 of the 19 months since AFA declared its morally inspired boycott. September sales dropped by 21 percent. Still, Big Media refuses to say 'boo' about it.
October 26, 2007 • What Would Jesus Download? GodTube’s video of the little girl reciting Psalm 23 has been viewed four million times.
October 8, 2007 •Cold Case Is Cold Hearted Toward Amish During the anniversary week of the Lancaster County massacre, CBS's drama blames the 'oppressive' Amish culture for the murder of an Amish girl.
October 8, 2007 • Confirmed: Faithful Folk are More Generous Research supports CMI study finding that religious people are more likely than secular people to give of their money and time.
October 4, 2007 • CBS’s Cold Case Adds Insult to Injury Last Sunday they savaged evangelical Christians. This Sunday, one year after the Lancaster County schoolhouse massacre, they’ll poke their fingers in the eyes of the Amish.
October 1, 2007 • A Modern-Day Stoning?!? Cold Case Smears Christian Kids CBS’s entertainment division portrays devout teens as murderers and hypocrites and their youth pastor as a pervert, while taking cheap shots at abstinence education.
August 17, 2007 • The World According to the TV Critics Showtime’s new series, Californication, blatantly and obscenely blasphemes Christianity and insults the Catholic Church - and not a single major media critic even notices.
August 15, 2007 • Billy Graham With Devil’s Horns? TIME and 20/20 profile the preacher’s remarkable access to Presidents, but suggest that a religious leader having the President’s ear is a bad idea.
June 7, 2007 • Does Watching TV Damage Character? The Culture and Media Institute's new Special Report, The Media Assault on American Values, reveals that media messages appear to be undermining the pillars of America’s cultural edifice: strength of character, sexual morality and respect for God.
May 24, 2007 • Bill Maher Makes Don Imus Look Like a Saint Press Release: MRC's Bozell, Knight call for Time-Warner to live up to corporate responsibility and discipline HBO's Bill Maher for vitriolic, lurid, anti-Christian remarks.
May 18, 2007 • Getting a Kick out of Falwell's Death I guess that openly enjoying the death of a fellow Christian and utterly distorting his Christian message into a caricature of hate is the mark of the nonjudgmental. I think it’s somewhere in the Sermon on the Mount.
May 9, 2007 • The Bible According to Fox News Religion correspondent turns to Scripture on homosexuality, but anchor shies away from the message.
May 8, 2007 • Fear or Bigotry? PBS to Reveal 'Truth' of the Inquisition The Public Broadcasting System is planning to air a documentary certain to offend Catholics scant weeks after canceling a documentary for fear of offending Muslims.
April 10, 2007 • Anderson Cooper Defines Christians…Or Not Cooper addressed topics apparently chosen to refute Christian faith or draw attention to controversies, not to understand what billions of people believe and why they believe it.
April 4, 2007 • The Easter "Hit" Parade (a summary) Beginning on February 26, the news and entertainment media have fired a stunning barrage of criticism at religious beliefs, religious practice, and religious symbols. Nothing is too sacred to attack this year, not even the most crucial teachings of Judaism and Christianity.
March 22, 2007 • AP Gets It Wrong on Evangelicals and Global Warming Zoll writes that Cizik has been called on the carpet for trying “to convince evangelicals” about global warming. In fact, evangelicals leaders are concerned about what Cizik is saying to non-evangelicals.
March 15, 2007 • The View from the Bottom The girls on The View are unanimous: Homosexuality is not only morally right but probably ought to be encouraged if we want to keep our military strong.
March 15, 2007 • My Homosexual Agenda is Jesus, Bishop Declares An openly homosexual Episcopal bishop from New Hampshire Wednesday asserted that the "500-year experiment in Anglicanism is being tested right now."
February 22, 2007 •The New York Times and the Gospel Truth The New York Times has been in the forefront of the conservative Christian-bashing, running voluminous pieces that accuse churches of avoiding taxes and warning darkly that the Christian Right is on the verge of turning the United States into a Talibanesque theocracy.
February 5, 2007 •Friends of God Not Friendly to Evangelicals Why bother trying to "discover" who evangelical Christians are, when all you're really doing is reinforcing tired old stereotypes?
February 1, 2007 • Blasphemy Redux Nightline gives more free publicity to a juvenile media stunt.
December 20, 2006 • The Gospel of Truth? Says Who? At Christmastime, "U.S. News and World Report" Breathes New Life into Old Errors
