Whining doesn’t really help

A friend forwarded an e-mail protest petition to me about the coming DaVinci Code movie, but I’m not signing on.
For one thing, the group putting on the campaign, TFP, is already suspect in my book: operating as a blasphemous personality cult for its Brazilian founder, TFP was condemned by the bishops of that country in 1985. He’s dead now, but the organization carries on, using the outrage at offensive anti-Christian movies to attract supporters and raise money for itself.
Furthermore, complaining about the movie isn’t enough. The false philosophy and spirituality in the book and movie do damage to souls. As this Presbyterian fellow writes, the book presents its own spirituality which a lot of people find attractive instead of the authentic message of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.
All the complaint campaigns, all the TFP postcards sent to Sony Pictures and all the Catholic League press releases issued by Bill Donohue, protesting that studios and publishers feel entitled to insult Christianity without rebuke, won’t undo that harm to souls.
A more serious response, an effort to communicate to the public, to correct the erroneous ideas in the DVC is needed. As usual, the protest petition came with a request to send “$25 or $50 or even $100” to spread the campaign further, but $50 worth of whining postcards won’t really help souls. If somebody were putting together a media evangelization project to counter the errors in the DVC, that would be worth a donation.