Father Barron on "2012"

This is a very interesting review of Roland Emmerich's latest effort in destroying the world.  It is also very useful since it provides a forewarning that the 2012 is deeply anti-religious and anti-catholic.

Father Barron points out that Emmerich does not miss an opportunity to kill off any character who has the temerity to pray.  For example, the President is cut off in the middle of reciting the 23rd Psalm.  Catholics are likewise exterminated in what Father Barron refers to as the high point of anti-catholicism in the movies by being crushed by St. Peter's Basilica while - you guessed it - praying.

Emmerich is deliberately crafted 2012 to communicate his opposition to "organized religion":

But Emmerich acolytes need not fear that the film-maker is pulling his punches on 2012, which arrives in UK cinemas on 13 November. The movie depicts a global doomsday event supposedly predicted by the Mayans more than a thousand years ago – in order to highlight his opposition to organised religion, the director decided to use CGI to destroy the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro instead. For good measure, he also blew up the Sistine chapel and St Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, plus, on a secular note, the White House (again).

Of course, Emmerich's opposition to "organized religion" is mixed with prudence when it comes to Islam, because, ya know, Rome doesn't issue fatwas, unlike Islam:

"I wanted to do that, I have to admit," Emmerich told scifiwire.com. "But my co-writer Harald [Kloser] said I will not have a fatwa on my head because of a movie. And he was right.

This sneak attack on Christianity is part of the passive-aggressive approach of Hollywood.  This summer's "The Invention of Lying" was also a long pro-atheist screed that pretended that the pro-atheist message inserted by the atheist writer was somehow irrelevant to the movie and didn't really need to be mentioned to those who might buy tickets to the mislabeled movie.

Father Barron says "don't go see this boring movie."