>On May 15 2009, Columbia pictures had scheduled the worldwide release of the movie version of Dan Brown’s ‘Angels and Demons‘. On March 25 2009, an email was sent to a group of Christian activists from an organization ‘The Catholic – Christian Secular Forum (The CSF)’. It explained why a ban should be sought on the movie:
>The movie with its special effects is expected to have a disastrous the impact on the minds of millions of gullible viewers will be disastrous. It will result in a negative image of the Christian community & the Church, aggravating the discord that exists in Orissa, Karnataka & BJP-ruled states and does not harbour well for the future.
>And then the email explained in detail what scenes in the movie were theologically unacceptable to Christians:
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A Pope who fathers a child by artificially inseminating a nun, claiming both are virgins. The Pope is indebted to Science for this miracle and allows a priest to pursue science & even adopt a daughter.
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Actions of various Popes with respect to ‘pornographic’ Vatican religious sculptures mocked, like sculptures of St. Teresa or Vatican’s male nude statues.
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Lies about historical events, issues and persons, like the Church’s anti-Science stance, Illuminati, Crusades, Galileo, Bernini, CERN, etc.
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Two Popes get elected, one happens to be the murdered Pope’s son, who is Pope for as little as 17 minutes, as per ancient Roman law.
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Negative portrayal of Popes, as Murderers, Swindlers or Cheats and Vatican as a den of criminals & schemers for world dominion.
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Free Masons and the Vatican alleged to be involved in a financial fraud, leading to even the murder of the Pope.
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Cross, Christmas, Sun Worship, Canonization, Holy Communion… borrowed & repackaged by Christianity.
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Catholic Church, the Papal institution & election of Popes ridiculed, trivialized & decried.
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Desecrates religion, incites religious communities against the other & hurts sentiments.
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Nefarious motives imputed to the Catholic Church, which is made villain of the story.
>In a week’s time this was followed by another mail by the CSF (dated 30-Mar-2009) After revealing that ‘our protests have already starting bearing fruit‘ and that ‘the Censor Board says will look at it seriously‘ the mail urged the believers: ‘If we all work together on it and before time – the next month; I am confident the Lord will bless us with success‘. What the believers should do was detailed thu
... keep reading on reddit ➡I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
Do your worst!
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
It really does, I swear!
They’re on standbi
Pilot on me!!
Nothing, he was gladiator.
Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.
This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.
If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.
Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.
When I got home, they were still there.
What did 0 say to 8 ?
" Nice Belt "
So What did 3 say to 8 ?
" Hey, you two stop making out "
I won't be doing that today!
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This morning, my 4 year old daughter.
Daughter: I'm hungry
Me: nerves building, smile widening
Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.
She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.
Thank you all for listening.
You take away their little brooms
There hasn't been a post all year!
It’s pronounced “Noel.”
After all his first name is No-vac
What, then, is Chinese rap?
Edit:
Notable mentions from the comments:
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Spanish/Swedish/Swiss/Serbian hits
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French/Finnish art
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Country/Canadian rap
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Chinese/Country/Canadian rock
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Turkish/Tunisian/Taiwanese rap
There hasn't been a single post this year!
(Happy 2022 from New Zealand)
Nothing, it just waved
Him: I can explain everything!
(It's his best joke yet I think)
Bob
So that I could frequently say, "I am going to walk 5 miles now."
Edit: My most popular post on Reddit! 😀 Thank you for the awards.
Just to clarify, 12345678
Me grabbing a soda from my (what I thought was) half full 12pk...
Notices there's only 2;
Me: "Awe man... This is a damn bird box!" Her: "What the hell does that mean?!" Me: (Pulls both cans out & shows them to her) "It's only got Toucans."
I'm not ashamed to admit the look on her face was glorious.
I was just sitting there doing nothing.
But nobody ever mentions his sister, Onya, who invented the starter pistol.
“BOOM”?!
"That's what they're fighting about."
