Maybe I'm picking on the Catholics a little too much lately, but their attacks on the Da Vinci Code are just too funny. First, let me assure you, I have zero interest in seeing this movie, nor do I believe any of the silly crap in the book. It's fiction, get over it, much like other books which shall remain nameless.

Strangely, the Catholics are very uncomfortable about fictional works that suggest made-up conspiracies having to do with Catholic dogma. We've warned them again and again, you don't want people to start focusing on the real cover-ups in the church **cough** butsecks with children **cough**, but they just can't help themselves.

Then it gets even funnier, they attack the film with an argument...wait, just read it for yourselves.

"This is a shocking and worrying cultural phenomenon that reflects, on the one hand, the ignorance of millions of people and, on the other, the voluptuous pleasure the media take in promoting products that have nothing to do with the truth," the French-born cardinal, 75, told the Paris radio station.
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"If a product that mixes up claims made as fact, fiction and so on, and comes out with elucubrations that have no relation to history, the whole world's media promote it," he said.
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"What I'm concerned about is that decent people who do not have the proper religious education will take this nonsense for the real thing," said the cardinal, who has headed the Pontifical Council for Culture since 1988.

Gosh, those are the best arguments I've ever heard for not reading the Bible, or seeing any movie based on the Bible, especially considering the Catholics themselves have long dispensed with the idea that the book is literal truth. Doesn't that mean it contains some fiction guys? If you're going to accept evolution and that Noah probably didn't find polar bears in Palestine, then why are you upset about Tom Hanks' fictional exploits?

The best part, is it's coming from a leader of a religion that uses the story of Onan to discourage masturbation. Talk about not having the proper religious education. And as far as the media promoting it "worldwide," has this guy ever seen the news around any Christian holiday? Has he noticed that at least once a year Time, Newsweek and every other pathetic example of journalism has some article on whether or not Jebus was real, or where the Virgin Mary might have stubbed her toe? These guys seem to have no appreciation for how good they have it, and they really shouldn't rock the boat, or someone will start writing books called "The Buttsecks with Children Code." It will star such prominent members of the Catholic church as the founder of The Legion of Christ, Cardinal Bernard Law, 4% of the priesthood and Pope Ratfinger himself for his personal efforts to conceal child sexual abuse. Sheesh. Give this controversy over this book a rest people. It's fiction!