Anjos e Demónios

Ron Howard, Dan Brown, Tom Hanks e a Sony Pictures continuam a querer enriquecer à custa da Igreja Católica.

Subjacente ao filme está a ideia de que Deus, na realidade, não existe, nem nunca existiu e a Igreja Católica mais não é do que um grupo de psicopatas que tentam dominar o mundo com o seu delírio apenas com o único e exclusivo objectivo de obter e ganhar mais poder e que apenas sobrevive com base em mentiras, burlas e até, se necessário, assassinatos.

Sobre este estéreotipo já escrevi também aqui.

Ao misturarem factos verdadeiros com invenções e ficções criam a dúvida e confundem as pessoas, sobretudo, as que estão menos informadas acerca da Igreja e da sua história.

Eis alguns factos, via fiat lux:

"Dan 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.

Dan 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, actually debunked 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.”

Dan 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.

Dan 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.

Dan 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."