TV3 is anti-Catholic

shes_crazy

By airing an anti-Catholic movie tonight, TV3 are showing themselves to be anti-Catholic. The film has awful reviews, yet the bosses at TV3 still feel the need to force anti-Catholic propaganda on the populace.

endacl

But everything on tv3 has bad reviews! That's how it gets on tv3.

Down with that sorta thing. OP, I'd suggest exploring the other channels available, or employing the handy 'off' function most tellies are equipped with these days. That'll show 'em!

Rabidlamb

http://www.tv3.ie/tvguide.php

Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
Time: 9:00pm Duration: 2 hours 10 minutes (s)

Documentary that explores the abuse of power in the Catholic Church and how four deaf men sought to expose the priest who abused them

I'd like to complain about TV3 also, the showed Passion of the Christ at easter. I'm a god hatin' atheist & I feel this pro-Christian piece of propaganda offended my civil liberties . . . . or I could change the channel

Skatedude

So i take it this is a joke? just trolling

Benny_Cake

shes_crazy wrote: »

By airing an anti-Catholic movie tonight, TV3 are showing themselves to be anti-Catholic. The film has awful reviews, yet the bosses at TV3 still feel the need to force anti-Catholic propaganda on the populace.

Actually, the reviews were mostly positive, with a Rotten Tomatoes score of 98. A former moderator of this very forum wrote an excellent review of the film here.

I have absolutely no idea whether the film is biased against Catholicism or not. Why let it bother you though? TV3 is a private company which can show what it likes, and it largely chooses to show various ITV soaps and dramas, rubbish documentaries, and woeful reality TV shows. By it's regular standards, Mea Maxima Culpa would be fairly high brow. I'd suggest if it bothers you that much, you just don't watch it. Easier on the blood pressure that way.

UrbanSea

I'm Catholic but couldn't give a toss about them showing the documentary. I don't agree with the abuse and it shouldn't be covered up.

shes_crazy

Benny_Cake wrote: »

Actually, the reviews were mostly positive, with a Rotten Tomatoes score of 98. A former moderator of this very forum wrote an excellent review of the film here.

I have absolutely no idea whether the film is biased against Catholicism or not. Why let it bother you though? TV3 is a private company which can show what it likes, and it largely chooses to show various ITV soaps and dramas, rubbish documentaries, and woeful reality TV shows. By it's regular standards, Mea Maxima Culpa would be fairly high brow. I'd suggest if it bothers you that much, you just don't watch it. Easier on the blood pressure that way.

FYI: TV3 cannot show "what it likes".

Anyway, if they want to go off on an anti-Catholic tangent and alienate their viewers; that's their prerogative.

endacl

Benny_Cake wrote: »

Actually, the reviews were mostly positive, with a Rotten Tomatoes score of 98. A former moderator of this very forum wrote an excellent review of the film here.

I have absolutely no idea whether the film is biased against Catholicism or not. Why let it bother you though? TV3 is a private company which can show what it likes, and it largely chooses to show various ITV soaps and dramas, rubbish documentaries, and woeful reality TV shows. By it's regular standards, Mea Maxima Culpa would be fairly high brow. I'd suggest if it bothers you that much, you just don't watch it. Easier on the blood pressure that way.

Absolutely. It's an unusually lovely evening op. Skip the box and go for a walk. Bit of fresh air will do you a power of good.

twistyj

TV3 is a British funded tv station owned by Granada in England, need we say anymore?

endacl

twistyj wrote: »

TV3 is a British funded tv station owned by Granada in England, need we say anymore?

Oh, please do...? I'd be intrigued as to your line of 'reasoning'.

charlemont

I hope it doesn't clash with the evening player..:(

Chucken

shes_crazy wrote: »

By airing an anti-Catholic movie tonight, TV3 are showing themselves to be anti-Catholic. The film has awful reviews, yet the bosses at TV3 still feel the need to force anti-Catholic propaganda on the populace.

How is it anti catholic? Are you saying the abuse didnt happen and this is all lies?

Benny_Cake

shes_crazy wrote: »

FYI: TV3 cannot show "what it likes".

I'm no expert, but I would have thought that provided it didn't venture outside the code of conduct set down by the BAI, they pretty much can. If you feel strongly about it, you can lodge a complaint with the BAI here.

shes_crazy wrote: »

Anyway, if they want to go off on an anti-Catholic tangent and alienate their viewers; that's their prerogative.

Great, we agree so. Any movie or TV show will potentially alienate someone, it goes with the territory.

endacl

Benny_Cake wrote: »

I'm no expert, but I would have thought that provided it didn't venture outside the code of conduct set down by the BAI, they pretty much can. If you feel strongly about it, you can lodge a complaint with the BAI here.



Great, we agree so. Any movie or TV show will potentially alienate someone, it goes with the territory.

Even Alien?

jhegarty

Same answer as to people who object to the Angelus, change the channel if you don't want to watch it.

seanin4711

shes_crazy wrote: »

By airing an anti-Catholic movie tonight, TV3 are showing themselves to be anti-Catholic. The film has awful reviews, yet the bosses at TV3 still feel the need to force anti-Catholic propaganda on the populace.

head in sand

shes_crazy

Chucken wrote: »

How is it anti catholic? Are you saying the abuse didnt happen and this is all lies?

No. What I am saying though is that deliberately conflating corporal punishment alongside the most grievous of sex crime is anti-catholic.

endacl

shes_crazy wrote: »

No. What I am saying though is that deliberately conflating corporal punishment alongside the most grievous of sex crime is anti-catholic.

It was abuse. Beating children who were entrusted to the care of religious orders was abuse. Raping them was abuse.

There's nothing anti-catholic about shining a light on the fact that these abuses happened. I don't hold catholic friends responsible. However, the perpetrators should definitely be held to account, and the suffering of the abused should most definitely be acknowledged. Its not a personal attack on you. My catholic friends agree. Why are you taking it personally?

For the record, I'm not anti-catholic. I'm indifferent-to-catholic. I am most definitely, unequivocally, and without reservation, supportive of the victims, of the psyches shattered and the lives stolen in these abuse cases. As should you be. If you're not, there's something very unhealthy in your thinking.

murraykil

shes_crazy wrote: »

No. What I am saying though is that deliberately conflating corporal punishment alongside the most grievous of sex crime is anti-catholic.

Conflating corporal punishment alongside the most grievous of sex crime is how many catholic priests proffered the rationale of the most grievous of sex crime to their victims.

shes_crazy

endacl wrote: »

It was abuse. Beating children who were entrusted to the care of religious orders was abuse. Raping them was abuse.

I am making the point about the conflating of abuse.

You do the victims of abuse a great disservice by ignoring the incessant conflating of abuse by those with anti-catholic agendas.

slap of a ruler < box in stomach < sexual interference < buggery < torture

the same way as:

impure thoughts < masturbation < sex before marriage < gay "sex" < child sexual abuse

A slap of the ruler != torturing a child.

Read with a pinch of salt next time you read about X number of priests about which complaints are made and Y% of that X being convicted, only on the next line for the journalist to describe violent sexual abuse and ignore the slap of the ruler majority (pushing the boundaries of then-legal corporal punishment) inherent in Y%.

Chucken

shes_crazy wrote: »

No. What I am saying though is that deliberately conflating corporal punishment alongside the most grievous of sex crime is anti-catholic.

Have you actually watched the programme?

endacl

shes_crazy wrote: »

I am making the point about the conflating of abuse.

slap of a ruler < box in stomach < sexual interference < buggery < torture

the same way as:

impure thoughts < masturbation < sex before marriage < gay "sex" < child sexual abuse

Seriously?? :eek:

Your thinking is warped. You sound deeply unpleasant.

I'm out of this discussion.

Get well soon.

shes_crazy

endacl wrote: »

Seriously?? :eek:

Your thinking is warped. You sound deeply unpleasant.

I'm out of this discussion.

Get well soon.

If you can't engage and need to resort to smear, nothing I can do.

Don't slam the door on your way out.

seanin4711

Karma
is a mo-fo!

frag420

shes_crazy wrote: »

slap of a ruler < box in stomach < sexual interference < buggery < torture

the same way as:

impure thoughts < masturbation < sex before marriage < gay "sex" < child sexual abuse.

Very apt username OP!

HurtLocker

shes_crazy wrote: »

By airing an anti-Catholic movie tonight, TV3 are showing themselves to be anti-Catholic.

What do you mean anti-catholic? Like really? Is RTE anti-non-Catholics by showing the angelus with taxpayers money. Yes.
TV3 is a private company trying to make a profit. They show what they feel the public will watch. Actual Catholics are a minority. The majority see absolutely nothing wrong with "anti-catholic" broadcasting. They may not all watch it but I doubt it annoys many people. They change the channel. Just like i do when that anti-athiest anti-every-non -Catholic angelus is ran everyday, I switch channel.

shes_crazy wrote: »

the bosses at TV3 still feel the need to force anti-Catholic propaganda on the populace.

Wha?!?
Its not like this...
http://obamapacman.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/MicroSheep-brainwashed-by-Big-Brother-Apple-1984.jpg

No one is forcing anyone to watch it. It's called choice. Its a right we have in a democratic country with no official religion or irreligion. I dread the day that mainstream media is not allowed show factual documentaries because it may damage the reputation of any interest body.

Fattes

So RTE who broadcast the Angelus every night, mass every Sunday morning, and sent 12 people to Rome for the election of a pope is anti Catholic, and Now so is TV3!

Perhaps if they were not such a bunch of hypocritical, interfering, child abusing, women enslaving, Criminal protecting, shower it would be harder to be anti catholic.

vicwatson

She's crazy so she is, she's carazzeeee I tell you

Wrongway1985

And the Islam channel is anti-Catholic too?? if youre not the audience tune into something else, like somebody said nobody is forcing you.

Popular Hardback

OP feigning a pantomime version of an 'outraged' catholic in order to troll, don't fall for it people.

Overall this forum is a troll magnet.

Benny_Cake

If the OP wants the discuss clerical abuse, there is a dedicated thread for that. Closed.