Posted by SunViking at dbusr3-14.n-jcenter.com on November 27, 1999 at 19:48:43:
Finally! A protester/naysayer in Florida. I felt so left out.
Today's issue of the Daytona Beach News-Journal (that gave Dogma ****)
I am now taking suggestions for my scathing but respectful reply....
Free speech anyone?
Terri :)
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The movie "'Dogma' actually is a very sharp-edged comedy," "a meditation on faith" "as reverent as it is irreverent." Really?
For film critic Jeff Farance to give four stars (excellent) and to make such statements in his Nov. 16 review of a movie that is virulently and obsessively anti-Catholic, adds profanity to egregious sacrilege. This movie is offensive in the extreme, filled as it is with filthy language and irreverent situations. That Farance thought "Dogma" is a gas means either that he will laugh at anything or that he can't resist giving high marks to a film that blatantly insults Catholics.
The movie contains outrageous assaults on the exalted personage of the Blessed Mother and her role in the universal church together with the other false and irreverent attacks against Catholic dogma and teachings.
In addition, Almighty God and the apostles (a foul-mouthed 13th apostle is introduced) are also subjected to writer/producer Kevin Smith's Catholic bashing.
Jeff Farance and The News-Journal should be ashamed for perpetuating these outrageous violations of what is sacred to Catholics. "Dogma" deserves an "F". The News-Journal deserves a lower grade.
David M. Varner, Palm Coast
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