Liberals most likely to believe Da Vinci tale
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, May 17, 2006 / 12:00 am (CNA).- Data from recent surveys indicate that liberals and people who are not regular churchgoers are more likely to believe the tales proposed in The Da Vinci Code about Jesus having children with Mary Magdalene, said Catholic League president William Donohue.

“There is an inverse correlation between religiosity and belief in the Da Vinci Code’s thesis,” explained Donohue in a press release. “The more likely one is to attend church, the less likely he or she is to believe the book’s thesis.”

According to Donohue, a Barna Group survey found that liberals were twice as likely as conservatives to have altered their religious beliefs after reading Dan Brown’s book.

Donohue also cited statistics indicating that the British are twice as likely to believe Da Vinci’s “moonshine” than Americans. Donohue attributed it to the fact that British Christians attend regular church services less often than Americans. The 2001 British census revealed that 72 percent consider themselves Christian, but only 8 percent regularly attend church services.

Donohue also quoted a USA/Gallup poll taken this month, which found that 72 percent of Americans said no movie had ever had a profound effect on their religious beliefs in any positive or negative way; 21 percent said they saw a movie that strengthened their beliefs; and four percent said they saw a film that caused them to question their religious beliefs.

As well, a Barna Group survey reported yesterday that 24 percent of those who read the book said it was helpful in relation to their ‘personal growth or understanding.’ Only five percent said they changed their beliefs because of The Da Vinci Code.

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Published by: John Healy
Washington, DC 05/19/2006 11:47 AM EST
Charles,

Origen was declared a heretic by the Catholic Church. Maybe you should bone up on your history.

Also, you should curtail your incredible vitriol and generalizations about liberals. If you are trying to get people to adopt conservative positions, you are singularly unpersuasive.
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Published by: Jack Leone
Wantagh, NY 05/19/2006 10:58 AM EST
This film is simply Satan's way of causing havoc. We must simply realize this. The movie and book is a blasphemous lie from hell, all perpetuated by the father of lies.
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Published by: Charles Wadlow
Kirkland, WA 05/17/2006 11:44 AM EST
Donohue is exactly right. Liberals will believe the Davinci Code. Why? Because most liberals are weak minded. They respond emotionally more so than intellectually. They make decisions based on how it makes them feel, rather than making decisions based on facts, research and history.

Liberalism is a mental disease, and it leads to severe relativism which our Holy Father is against.

I wish the Holy Spirit would call our Priests and Bishops to Catechize the flock more effectively in our adult lives. It is the Catholic Adult population that is so poorly educated on their faith. They stopped learning about their faith after confirmation.

Three things our church could do, so we avoid problems like people believing the Da Vinci Code.

1. Catechize the youth, and have classes for adults.
2. Market the Faith. We don't evangelize near enough. At the parish level it is even worse. The Priests are too busy to send out mailers to their local community. They are too busy to care about marketing.
3. Our homilies in most churches are a joke. How can you learn anything in 8minutes. We need teaching homilies.(20-30 min)
Origen, Athanacius, Augustine and Aquinas would be upset about how poor our teaching is in the church.

RETURN TO OUR ROOTS: Preaching & Teaching!
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Published by: Mike McCaffrey
Yarmouthport, MA 02675 05/17/2006 11:36 AM EST
I would expect that conservative extremist Bill Donahue would dig out this obscure research and use it to slam the liberals he continually hates. This movie is make believe and only a fool would believe it. Bill Donahue should stick to fighting inflammatory bias against Catholics, not creating his own inflammatory biases.
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