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i saw this one coming a mile away...Holy "Trinity" and all that...altared states...nevermind...did you know that in the original Matrix script draft, Morpheus was called Menudo? I'm not lying, I swear to God

original Sintenals...sorry

So the sentinals SAVE little boys from "Neo"?

It may be a Matrix take-off, but this guy looks demonic. If the Church thinks that making priests look scary and satanic is a good idea, they've got more problems than recruitment.

I love where he says the priesthood has gotten "bad press." You know, maybe that whole "raping young boys, keeping them from reporting the crime by telling them that God will be mad at them if they do and declaring dioceses bankrupt so you don't have to pay the victims reparations" has something to do with the "bad press." Just saying.

This is the same ploy the Bush administration keeps trying to pull. "You never hear about the soldiers who DON'T get their arms and legs blown off." Stop doing evil, ugly shit and just maybe the "bad press" will cease.

My church camp's theme this summer was the matrix so there are actual churches out there trying to get us to get to know god better by these stupid things. Just my opinion but I don;t think its working. Oh by the way it was a baptist camp, not catholic in my case.

I don't think the Matrix theme is going to be taken so literally scene-by-scene like the movies. It's just a marketing ploy. Although, I think that 'recruiting' people is sort of weird. It's not like the military where you're out in 2 years, and you've got job training skills. It's supposed to be FOREVER.

I was in college when the movie came out. It was amusing to watch every religious group on campus useing it for their own purposes.

The Christian groups had viewings and discussions of Christian imagery in the movie. Then the world religions group responded by having the same event but to discuss the Buddhist imagery.

I went to both meetings, and in both, the parallels worked for a while and then fell apart. It's just a movie... and in this case, its just marketing.

Although, I still think it would be little wierd to expect highschool boys to hang pictures of priests on their bedroom walls. Isn't that what the Catholic church is trying to get away from...

My girlfriend drags me to church every Easter. (Spent last Easter listening to a Led Zeppelin cd on a hidden player, it was a much more spiritual experience than hearing the sermon.)

Anyway, I noticed a big color poster on the door when we went in. "The League of Ordinary Gentlemen". It had the font from the movie, and head-shots of three old-fashioned looking guys in Victorian clothing. It was some kind of series of sermons based on something from Judges.

And this was one of those Southern Baptist suburban mega-churches. We all call it Six Flags Over Jesus around here.

So no, Christian churches ripping off ideas from popular movies for their ad campaigns is nothing new. That's what happens when you train people from birth not to think for themselves--you drain all the imagination, creativity, and originality out of them. Then there's nothing left to do but plagiarize, right?

But I agree--if the Catholic Church wants to counteract their 'bad press', they should start by not putting their dicks in little boys and then using their phenomenal wealth and influence to cover it up anymore, that would be much more effective than slick posters.

I sort of hope they don't. I sort of hope they keep rearranging deck chairs until the public loses all trust in them, and then the entire stupid, corrupt church collapses into well-earned extinction. It would only leave the world a better place if the whole organizaiton petered out. Next we could watch the Mormons, the Baptists, and the Scientologists fade into oblivion. Makes me happy just thinking about it.

I would also suggest that some enterprising graphic arts major print up his own satirical 'recruitment' posters for the Catholic Church, based on Peter Pan. "Hey guys! Do you like little boys? All it takes is faith and trust and a little bit of pixie dust!" Hang one of those next to every Matrix poster and see which one gets more attention....

Well, ripping ideas from Hollywood Box office hits isn't exactly new. While maybe not as obvious, I've noticed a lot of things being played up in a Matrix, or Kung-fu movie sort of way.

Let's not get all worked up b/c 'big bad' churches are doing it too. Calm yourselves.

>>>Let's not get all worked up b/c 'big bad' churches are doing it too. Calm yourselves.<<<

Hey, know what? I bet you wouldn't be telling people to 'calm down' if YOU had had a clergyman's dick shoved up your ass when you were twelve, like so many other children have.

(Yeah, they rape little girls too. The Chosen of God think they can get away with anything.)

I agree it is a bad idea....on many levels!!! Still, it was kinda wierd to watch the responses go from sane, interesting comments to bizarre, paranoid rantings to just outright "let's all play with our dicks" nonsense. Man, I'm sure none of you will mind is I chose to simply read the initial articles and avoid the "intellectual" bantor.

Looking at the whole thing on a logical adult level, the Vatican are showing clear sign's of reverse psychology here! Didn't i hear the Pope Ratarser slag off all the other man-made religious establishment's for bending to commercialism! Isn't this the pot calling the kettle black, or rather, the den of Vice calling the pure Virtue of a clear soul a whore, simply because they havn't got a clear enough conscience to obtain a pure soul for themselve's! Ah! So that's how they turned the Kaaba at Mecca Black, with reverse psychology!

My sister-in-law took the picture and designed the poster. The following are my comments...not anyone elses!! It is a marketing strategy to get more to join the priesthood. Using an identifiable look and spoof of a movie is a way to grab peoples interest and get the message of catholic priesthood to the "younger genereation". That's all. No direct link for each scene in the movie or direct comparisons to Keanu Reeves. Get real people. Don't over analize this so much. It is causing a controversy and that is spreading the story of this poster all over the world and reaching more and more people than they probably thought it would.

Enticing young boys into the priesthood is over analyzing things. What, were you on the Jackson defense team???

!"Enticing young boys into the priesthood is over analyzing things. What, were you on the Jackson defense team???
Posted by Craig on Fri Aug 26, 2005 at 07:45 AM"

Not entising. Just a "cool" way to get to the young people and show that priesthood is acalling and a great thing to do if you are called to do so. Every religion is gonna get a bad rap here and there. I am just saying that everyone is taking this way to seriously!!!

"the Vatican is getting on the warpath to prick the free will out of all the youth! Posted by Ka~Os on Fri Aug 26, 2005 at 09:39 AM"

Come on!! Warpath...I think not. You think anyone who is getting a calling from God to become a priest is gonna see this poster and all of the sudden his calling becomes clear? No!! Lighten up people!!! The Vatican didnt make this poster. A youth leader who happens to be a priest was told by a 8th grader about the idea and it snowballed from there. Religion (catholic or any) is fullfilling and rewarding and can also be fun and entertaining. Everyone needs to calm down about the Matrix movie part of it and just take it for what it is worth. A "cool" way to possibly get some Catholics to get into the church a little more.

Ka~Os, I'm the one removing your posts because all you're doing is making bizarre rambling attacks on the Catholic Church. The point of this discussion is the validity of these posters, not to serve as a vehicle for your personal diatribes against the Church. When you post on topic, or semi-close to it I don't have a problem, but when you start bringing the Illuminati into it you're totally losing track.

The dramatic pin-up of Father Jonathan Meyer references the Pied Piper of Hamelin who seduced 130 children and led them to a dark end.
One analysis is that the Piper is a pedophile that sexually abused and butchered the children, placing their severed limbs on tree branches and disappearing into a mountain. The remaining children follow the Piper into the mountain never to be heard from again.
The seductive pin-up of Father Meyer seems to be the production of a media savvy photographer and an enthusiastic young priest in the prime of his life, 28-year-old ego intact and perhaps unaware of the implied violence in his work of art? It’s a dark image, like that of an exorcist, ready to punch out the beast and to wave his dick around in victory. It’s a visual sleight of hand, the dark shades his nuts, and his youthful face and crown of hair his furry dick; the crucifix and rosary linking sexuality with dominance and violence. It’s the kind of image that appeals to horny young men at the peak of their sexual prowess. Thousands of young men entertain the fantasy of slamming the enemy, but what about the girls?
Well, I think that the girls are looking for their hot knight in shinning armor with cross in hand, aching to be his cum bucket. This poster appeals to young virile men, ready to screw and the devil take the hind most. The girls, well… they’re just props. They crank out the babies like good Catholic girls. This poster seems to reduce people (especially women) to meat with eyes that blink and the church likes that!
Fortunately, one sleazy pin-up does not an lifetime Catholic make! Unless of course, it does?

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Oh come on Kattywac, what type of crack are you on! Everyone know's that any advertising material, or any public displaying of anything to do with the RC, has to be approved through certain channel's before anything it released into the media, even if it's student's material. So what your really looking at is a slippery publicity research stunt by the RC, to test their homosexual attractiveness in the male public sector over the female's on the planet by offering them the Keanu Reeves sexual prowess on a silver platter.

The Vatican didnt make this poster. A youth leader who happens to be a priest was told by a 8th grader about the idea.

Get real! Your in the last age's of all man-made religion's fighting for altermate dominating controle over the entire planet, as if they never had enough of shagging all the boy's in the world for century's, promising them eternal life for bendin over, and yet they still die like dog's of Alhzeimer's, Parkinson's, Cancer, and a whole African continant infected with Freemasonry dieing of Aids!!! Do not you have any logical awarness to the fact that the Vatican just a cover up for a world peadophile industry full of monkey's who havn't the brain capacity to stop pocking hole's with their stick's, and you gota bend to recieve it too!
Well, i'm sorry, but i have my own free will, and a hell of a lot higher moralistic virtue's, principle's and standard's than the whole of the RC, put together, to let some half brained interpretation's that the scripture's say, 'to fuck ya kid's, and deny the truth for century's'! Sorry mate, but if your brain can surely except this system of abuse's wearing the white dress of the Virgin Mary to the public's face as a deliberate white wash, then your brain's, or should i say half of one, must have already had your Papal Monkey Stick calling too then!
So where does it say in the scripture's to fuck your kid's up the arse?
Where's it say in the scripture's that fucking your kid's give's them eternal life?
Where's it say in the scripture's that God's into SKAT?
Where's it say in the scripture's that boy's become men when they honour their father's by giving them sexual favour's?

NOWHERE! So what type of man-made religion are you talking about when you talk about the Roman Catholic's? The man-made Vatican Peadophile Video Film Club religion? The man-made Vatican Shit Stabber's Keep Ya Gob Shut religion? The man-made Vatican World Banking Money Laundering Religion? The Vatican Freemason Get Out Of Jail Any Where In The World For Free religion? HOW OLD IS YOUR LIVING CONSCIENCE???????
You must be falling asleep to yourselve's if you condone their behaviour in an adult body! This has nothing to do with God, and nothing to do with Satan, this is the state of the human world today, REPROBATE, and that's a fact!