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Hi everyone. 
I was absolutely infuriated when I learned about this European cartoon that never made it to the United States. It's called "Popetown". Basically it's a very controversial cartoon that makes fun of Catholicism and the Pope. Let's just say that they show the Pope as an infantile nincompoop as Wikipedia puts it. This "cartoon" must have been incredibly popular with the anti-Catholics! 
In fact, according to Wikipedia, a popular anti-Catholic Atheistic group defended the cartoon. Not that I'm surprised. 
Most Atheists are quite anti-religion and in particular anti-Catholic. Catholicism gets more flack from the Atheists than does any other religion in my opinion. Now I believe the Muslims come in a close second but I still don't think they get as much flack as the Catholic Church does.
I heard about this "cartoon" in another thread. I was disgusted to say the least. And take a look at how they portray the Pope:
He's portrayed as a psychotic killer shooting a machine gun. Like the Pope would even own a gun! And even if he did own a gun, he certainly wouldn't use it in a psychotic fashion like this killer Pope does in the cartoon.
Also take a look at the cardinals behind him. They're all portrayed as evil corrupt cardinals and one is even portrayed as having as severe deformity. Not that having a deformity is a bad thing but it just shows how disrespectful they are being that they have to portray the cardinals as somehow being "inferior" to the rest of society. Not saying that hunch back (sorry, I don't know the actual medical term) people are inferior but that is the implication that they give.
The only good character in the cartoon is the priest who is the Pope's "protector" named Fr. Nicholas. In the cartoon, he actually tries to live a devout life. However, they do show the two of them together in the bathtub though fully clothed. For one thing, (and yes I know it's a cartoon but I still hate this) the Pope would never allow someone else to bathe him unless he was totally incapable of doing it himself and for another, people don't bathe with their clothes on! Not that I'd like to see them portrayed as being "naked" in the cartoon. That would make it even worse. You see, this cartoon just can't make me happy.
I also saw a clip on Youtube where a priest or a cardinal or someone flicks a piece of something out of his mouth and into a pile of "magical" hosts. They are quite obviously Eucharistic hosts as they are round and white. What else could they be? I don't doubt one bit in my mind that the idiots who came up with this cartoon were trying to get the point across that the Eucharist is some kind of "magic" idiocy thing.
Oh and that's not all that this cartoon shows. This cartoon shows some visitor to the Vatican who is apparently an evil dictator (he's dressed like a Nazi or something), whose wife chooses to slobber all over the Pope's ring for several seconds, and the evil dictator opens fire on the visitor's room in the Vatican just because someone served some kind of roasted animal for the dinner (I'm assuming it was a panda because the dictator talks about how he is a "conservationist" who has a panda reserve or something). Like as though anyone ever eats panda unless they are starving!
Oh and that isn't even where it ends. In one of the episodes, they portray a priest as a sexual deviant according to Wikipedia. Of course they'd have to make that cheap shot against the Church!
Thankfully, Jewish, Christian Evangelicals, and even Muslims were opposed to the show at least in Germany. I was shocked about that. I never dreamed in my life that Jews and Muslims would stand up for the Catholic Church as I always thought they were anti-Catholic too. Now, I can see some evangelicals doing that but not many. Too many evangelicals think we're not even Christian. Don't believe me? I know, I used to be an evangelical and a fundamentalist at one time as well.
This isn't the only time that Catholicism or Jesus has been made fun of by cartoonists. There was at least one episode of South Park and I think one of the Simpsons and of Family Guy (or some other show, I don't keep up to date on them that well) where Catholicism in particular was made fun of. I know that they made fun of Jesus in South Park one time as I saw that episode. My best friend rented it at a movie store and told me I should watch it. I reluctantly watched it with him.
But yeah, my point is that the Catholic Church is routinely made fun of, criticized, and bigotedly ridiculed by anti-Catholics. This, my friends, is proof that the Catholic Church is the one true Church. Not that I encourage such disgusting anti-Catholicism though.
Anyway, here's some links:
Popetown - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
That's all I can find right now. Anyway, here's some pictures with my commentary:
Note how the Pope is displayed as a legless, immature, infantile, idiot who gets his thrills with a pogo stick. Notice also the bug eyed priest (and the Pope and nun). The priest is Fr. Nicholas.
Notice the evil looking grin on the Pope's face.
Ok, "The Pope is Brilliant"... why yes he is but I seriously doubt that the Vatican building really says that on it. Again, notice the sly, evil looking grin on the Pope and on the cardinals.
The Pope as a psychotic evil killer.
And that's all I have time to post for now. I would have showed you the German cover of a DVD or something for it but if I did, I'd likely get banned. If you want to find it, do a Google image search for "Popetown" and it comes up on the first page. But beware, it's very disgusting. It's far worse than any images I have shown.
So, what's your view of this movie? Disgusted? Not so good? Like it? Love it? Vote in my poll where the scale is 1-10 1 being it's horrible and 10 being it's wonderful.
I was absolutely infuriated when I learned about this European cartoon that never made it to the United States. It's called "Popetown". Basically it's a very controversial cartoon that makes fun of Catholicism and the Pope. Let's just say that they show the Pope as an infantile nincompoop as Wikipedia puts it. This "cartoon" must have been incredibly popular with the anti-Catholics! In fact, according to Wikipedia, a popular anti-Catholic Atheistic group defended the cartoon. Not that I'm surprised. Most Atheists are quite anti-religion and in particular anti-Catholic. Catholicism gets more flack from the Atheists than does any other religion in my opinion. Now I believe the Muslims come in a close second but I still don't think they get as much flack as the Catholic Church does.I heard about this "cartoon" in another thread. I was disgusted to say the least. And take a look at how they portray the Pope:
He's portrayed as a psychotic killer shooting a machine gun. Like the Pope would even own a gun!
And even if he did own a gun, he certainly wouldn't use it in a psychotic fashion like this killer Pope does in the cartoon.Also take a look at the cardinals behind him. They're all portrayed as evil corrupt cardinals and one is even portrayed as having as severe deformity. Not that having a deformity is a bad thing but it just shows how disrespectful they are being that they have to portray the cardinals as somehow being "inferior" to the rest of society. Not saying that hunch back (sorry, I don't know the actual medical term) people are inferior but that is the implication that they give.
The only good character in the cartoon is the priest who is the Pope's "protector" named Fr. Nicholas. In the cartoon, he actually tries to live a devout life. However, they do show the two of them together in the bathtub though fully clothed. For one thing, (and yes I know it's a cartoon but I still hate this) the Pope would never allow someone else to bathe him unless he was totally incapable of doing it himself and for another, people don't bathe with their clothes on! Not that I'd like to see them portrayed as being "naked" in the cartoon. That would make it even worse. You see, this cartoon just can't make me happy.
I also saw a clip on Youtube where a priest or a cardinal or someone flicks a piece of something out of his mouth and into a pile of "magical" hosts. They are quite obviously Eucharistic hosts as they are round and white. What else could they be? I don't doubt one bit in my mind that the idiots who came up with this cartoon were trying to get the point across that the Eucharist is some kind of "magic" idiocy thing.
Oh and that's not all that this cartoon shows. This cartoon shows some visitor to the Vatican who is apparently an evil dictator (he's dressed like a Nazi or something), whose wife chooses to slobber all over the Pope's ring for several seconds, and the evil dictator opens fire on the visitor's room in the Vatican just because someone served some kind of roasted animal for the dinner (I'm assuming it was a panda because the dictator talks about how he is a "conservationist" who has a panda reserve or something). Like as though anyone ever eats panda unless they are starving!
Oh and that isn't even where it ends. In one of the episodes, they portray a priest as a sexual deviant according to Wikipedia. Of course they'd have to make that cheap shot against the Church!
Thankfully, Jewish, Christian Evangelicals, and even Muslims were opposed to the show at least in Germany. I was shocked about that. I never dreamed in my life that Jews and Muslims would stand up for the Catholic Church as I always thought they were anti-Catholic too. Now, I can see some evangelicals doing that but not many. Too many evangelicals think we're not even Christian. Don't believe me? I know, I used to be an evangelical and a fundamentalist at one time as well.
This isn't the only time that Catholicism or Jesus has been made fun of by cartoonists. There was at least one episode of South Park and I think one of the Simpsons and of Family Guy (or some other show, I don't keep up to date on them that well) where Catholicism in particular was made fun of. I know that they made fun of Jesus in South Park one time as I saw that episode. My best friend rented it at a movie store and told me I should watch it. I reluctantly watched it with him.
But yeah, my point is that the Catholic Church is routinely made fun of, criticized, and bigotedly ridiculed by anti-Catholics. This, my friends, is proof that the Catholic Church is the one true Church.
Not that I encourage such disgusting anti-Catholicism though. Anyway, here's some links:
Popetown - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
That's all I can find right now. Anyway, here's some pictures with my commentary:
Note how the Pope is displayed as a legless, immature, infantile, idiot who gets his thrills with a pogo stick. Notice also the bug eyed priest (and the Pope and nun). The priest is Fr. Nicholas.
Ok, "The Pope is Brilliant"... why yes he is but I seriously doubt that the Vatican building really says that on it. Again, notice the sly, evil looking grin on the Pope and on the cardinals.
The Pope as a psychotic evil killer.
And that's all I have time to post for now. I would have showed you the German cover of a DVD or something for it but if I did, I'd likely get banned. If you want to find it, do a Google image search for "Popetown" and it comes up on the first page. But beware, it's very disgusting. It's far worse than any images I have shown.
So, what's your view of this movie? Disgusted? Not so good? Like it? Love it? Vote in my poll where the scale is 1-10 1 being it's horrible and 10 being it's wonderful.
