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Opie vs. Opus Dei

Opus Dei has asked Ron Howard (and Sony Pictures) to include a disclaimer in their Da Vinci Code movie to clearly state that the film is a work of fiction. Opie told Opus Dei to pack sand, "spy thrillers don't start off with disclaimers."

Besides the misleading history (which will ONLY be obvious to a minority of people and those of us who actually KNOW Church History will hopefully have some interesting water cooler conversations), I think what is also lacking here is an understanding that Opus Dei is a REAL organization within a REAL Church and is made up of REAL people. So what?

What do you think would happen if we were to do a little "switchero"?

Filmmaker Ron Howard has acknowledged the controversy renewed by his film of Dan Brown's best-selling novel, which depicts Opus Dei the NAACP as a shadowy sect at the heart of a murderous conspiracy to conceal dark secrets of the early Christian Church Civil Rights Movement.

Think there'd be a need for a disclaimer then? A bit more than that I would imagine...how about this one:

Filmmaker Ron Howard has acknowledged the controversy renewed by his film of Dan Brown's best-selling novel, which depicts Opus Dei the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as a shadowy sect at the heart of a murderous conspiracy to conceal dark secrets of the early Christian Church spread of Islam.

I reckon I needn't say what we'd see in this case, eh? A Disclaimer wouldn't quite suffice.