The Family Research Council, the Christian fundamentalist group led by Gary Bauer, posted on its website an article, by Patrick Henry Reardon of Touchstone magazine, claiming that the wildly popular movie "Titanic" is satanic. At issue is heroine Rose's line that the hero Jack Dawson "saved me in every way that a human being can be saved." "Anything that says that a human being is saved by purely human means is satanic," comments Reardon. "I believe [Rose's words] also to have been the interpretive, defining line of the film: the assertion that the sort of saving that Jack did was, ultimately, the only kind of saving possible. If that was the thesis statement of the film, then I start looking for the cloven hoof and sniffing for brimstone."

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