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Message: [QUOTE="nomar, post: 5278619, member: 651"] The POPE watched it and apparently didn't have as much a problem as you purport to have. No religion got mocked. I don't know what movie you watched. The film obviously preferred a certain view point. But nothing got criticized other than retrograde views of certain individuals within the Church. A movie can prefer a view point, and even have an agenda, and not mock an entire religion. Do I really need to point that out? I guess so. I said "it's a movie" because of course there needed to be some dramatic events, like a dark horse candidate unexpectedly arriving. Within the film universe, that's not "ridiculous." It's a movie, not a documentary about Vatican politics. I think your other criticism reflected a startling level of naivete. Everything is political. One of the Cardinals was actually forced out of the running on the basis of a note just like in the film. [/QUOTE]