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December 2007 ISSUE
We do not make jokes, we simply watch the LA Times, the Orange County Register and CID/HOA board of directors and report the facts!
South Coast Repertory’s 2007 Production of Doubt – Anti-Catholic, Doubtless
Catholics are easy punching bag targets. Just look toward San Francisco and ask Mayor Gavin!
November
11, 2007
A good number of us recall the
recent (Jyllands-Posten ) Muhammad cartoons debacle,
which began shortly after twelve editorial cartoons
depicted the Islamic prophet Muhammad, were published
in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten on 30
September 2005. The newspaper announced that this
publication was an attempt to contribute to the debate
regarding criticism of Islam and self-censorship: Danish Muslim organizations, who objected to the depictions,
responded by holding public protests attempting to
raise awareness of Jyllands-Posten's
publication. The controversy
deepened when further examples of the cartoons were reprinted
in newspapers in more than fifty other countries.
This led to protests across the Muslim world, some of
which escalated into violence with police firing on
the crowds, including setting fire to the Norwegian
and Danish Embassies in Syria, storming European
buildings, and desecrating
the Danish
and German
flags in Gaza
City.
More recently, saying that
Islam is evil in Finland and the rest of the
Scandinavian countries, can be considered hate speech,
and is actively being prosecuted.
On this side of the pond, gay
activists recently desecrated a Catholic Church in San
Francisco – apparently not an issue for re-elected
Mayor Gavin. On
September
4, 2007 a Muslim woman, represented by the ACLU sued the sheriff because her
religious rights were violated when deputies forced
her to remove her head scarf – even though the woman
was arrested for parole violation.
The
current Los Angeles Police Antiterrorism Plan is
drawing fire, despite the overwhelming data on actual
terrorists, because it is tantamount to ethnic
profiling, according to critics - To what Deputy
Chief Michael P. Downing says that these “people
don't really understand what we are doing.”
Then you have what is being
passed as a “family movie” scheduled to be
released in December, The
Golden Compass by an atheist British author Phillip Pullman whose stated goal
in writing the books is to be the “Anti-Narnia”
series and to lead children into atheism.
The 2007 South
Coast Repertory’s Production of John Patrick
Stanley’s Doubt, a Parable, is not more than an
artistic manqué, anti-Catholic
play. Not unlike Time Magazine’s David Van Biema’s alleged Mother
Teresa's Crisis of Faith
"What do you do when you're not sure?" Father
Flynn asks the audience in the opening line of this
play, setting the stage for an imbricate story of
suspicion and moral uncertainty.
He goes on to explain that trying to undo harm
caused by gossip is analogous to retrieving all the
feathers blown by the wind when a pillow has been
destroyed,
The story unfolds with a pasquinade view of a dysfunctional Catholic school system, the Catholic organizational structure and the human frailties of a priest who wants to do good. The messages in the play are reticulated with icons and symbols of the Catholic faith- – it should be noted that the play provides plenty of secular progressive tips, but lacks practical biblical-based advice.
In
the end, the ultimate message is that if
you are a Christian, you are taking the easy way out
– that is doubting is OK – for as dramaturg Megan
Monaghan asserts using Alfred Korzybski’s thoughts:
“There are two ways to easily slide through
life; believe everything or to doubt everything.
Both ways save us from thinking”
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