I kinda suspected this new film, The Ledge--the topic of the latest Point of Inquiry--would raise a culture war brouhaha. When do you know you have such a brouhaha? Well, one early barometer is often Bill Donahue--whose conservative Catholic League is always trying to police depictions of religion in the public square. And now Donahue has weighed in on the film--negatively, of course. Here's his statement [warning, spoiler alert below]:
People of faith, especially Catholics, are used to being trashed by Hollywood, but they are not accustomed to films that promote atheism. Yes, there was "The Golden Compass," an atheism-for-kids effort which the Catholic League successfully boycotted (in fairness, it was the book upon which the movie was based that triggered our response, not the screen adaptation). "The Ledge" is different in that its backers are selling themselves as the real pioneers: they expect it to be a ground-breaker. In ...
