Combating the big lie: Defending the Bible from 'The Da Vinci Code'

WorldNetDaily ^ | May 19, 2006 | By Dr. Ted Baehr

[Borges]

"Jews are inherently inferior."

We've all heard these falsehoods bandied about in the mass media, including some of our most popular movies, books and TV programs.

Which of "our most popular movies, books and TV programs" pushed this?

[Gordongekko909]

I know a fairly left-leaning girl who happens to be studying classical history, and according to even her, the da Vinci Code is pure BS with no grounding in fact or history. I have no intention of reading the book or seeing the movie.

Nay, the next movie I see will be Snakes on a Plane. It promises to be a cinematic tour de force.

[Christian4Bush]

bttt

[AgThorn]

"Jews are inherently inferior."
We've all heard these falsehoods bandied about in the mass media, including some of our most popular movies, books and TV programs.

Which of "our most popular movies, books and TV programs" pushed this?

SouthPark's Cartman, speaking about Kyle

[Amelia]

Christians protesting The DaVinci Code have given the book and the movie more free publicity than the author and the studios could ever have hoped to have been able to afford.

I'm sure they thank you.

[pabianice]

Oh, for pete's sake! Get a life, Church! How can you get so bent out of shape by a bad sci-fi movie? We Jews have been getting slandered for 5,000 years by unfiendly people who want us all dead. Open a newspaper overseas for a chance. Grow a callus. Get tough or find another line of work.

[GSWarrior]

C'mon Tom, fess up. You work for Sony Pictures.

[R_Kangel]

Isn't it true that the Word of the Lord never changes.......

But movies and books and media and all manner of entertainment does.

Actually, I don't think yhis piece of entertainment was meant to be taken seriously.

[Lokibob]

Honestly, Cecil B. DeMille must be rolling over in his grave.

There was a period of time in this country when religious stories of any type were welcomed.

These days, if you film a religious themed story (Mel Gibson, Ron Howard), it is jumped on with both feet, from the left, the right and the center.

Is discussion really that bad? DeMille didn't think so.

If one person saw this movie and decided that, in fact, the bible was correct, wouldn't it be worth it. The other side of the coin, is the bible on such thin ice that a film can upset the whole thing?

[maine-iac7]

I am still amazed at the vilification and the credit given Brown for these ideas.

Good glory - he was even sued by contemporary writers, Leigh and Baigent, for "stealing their ideas" from their NON-fiction book: Holy Blood, Holy Grail."

Altho' a bogus suit to begin with as one cannot copyright ideas - and they lost their shirts as the judge told them just that - it should have clued some of the clueless to the fact that the 'ideas' in Brown's books did not come from him...

These "ideas" have been around for 2000 years...and even, currently, there are many other books - Nonfictional now in print that go into much deeper detail and list bibliographies...

One in particular, that got Brown started, was the book "The Woman with the Alabaster Jar" (dare I say it again, NON-fiction)written by a life long Catholic with an impressive bio.

Yet nowhere have I heard a hue and cry about these authors and their claims in their NON-fiction books. Curious>

Is it that people just aren't reading that much anymore?

For those who might have an individual mind, it might be interesting to check out some of the NON-fiction books.

the aforementioned "the Woman With..." by Margaret Starbird, is a great starting point - and then moving on to Sir Laurence Gardner's books, etc.

(Starbirds' bio: Margaret Starbird holds BA and MA degrees from the University of Maryland where she concentrated in comparative literature, medieval studies and German language, studies she pursued on a Fulbright Student Grant at the Christian Albrechts Universitat in Kiel, Germany. She taught German language at the University of Maryland for four years and for one year at North Carolina State University. She later studied at Vanderbilt Divinity School in Nashville, TN. She has lived and traveled extensively in Europe including pilgrimages to Black Madonna and Mary Magdalene shrines and Cathar citadels in Provençe." her web site:

http://www.margaretstarbird.net/

Here's a stained glass window in a church in Europe - longggg before Brown was born.

For all those demanding 'truth' - maybe you should stop blaming/crediting Brown with these "ideas" - it ain't true

[maine-iac7]

Now Lokibob - don't go confusing these folk with common sense - it doesn't appear many of them can handle that

[freekitty]

I will bet if any one of these people that say they do not have faith are the first ones up offering prayers to God when something goes wrong.

They don't understand how sustaining faith is; our comforting it is. I can't imagine a life without it.

[MPJackal]

"These days, if you film a religious themed story (Mel Gibson, Ron Howard)"

I think that is the argument. Is a movie that says the foundation of Christianity is a lie (that Christ died so our sins would be forgiven), and as such Christianity is a fraud and "religious themed story". I'll argue no. It may have a religious back drop, but it is no more religious themed than Night of the living Dead.

[Zhangliqun]

Christians protesting The DaVinci Code have given the book and the movie more free publicity than the author and the studios could ever have hoped to have been able to afford.

I'm sure they thank you.

As a Christian, I take a very different view from the boycotters -- I see DVC as an opportunity to bring discussion about Christianity to the surface in a way and at a detailed level never seen in the modern secular era.

My motto, and maybe I'll get a T-shirt to this effect, is:

"Secular America, PLEASE DO go see The DaVinci Code. And please do give in to that sophomoric impulse you'll feel to come looking for folks like me to rub my nose in it so I can straighten you out."

So I hope DVC turns out to be the highest-grossing movie of all time.

I thank you...

[Lokibob]

ok, then the evolution discussion is dead, because it has a religious backdrop, but not religious themed.

[Rennes Templar]

This book/movie is just the beginning of the emerging of new (old) truth, however imperfect, that will challenge the creeds of orthodox western religion, which in my opinion, is due for a large overhaul.

[shuckmaster]

"The First Amendment provides for the separation of Church and State." True

"The Founding Fathers were all deists." False

"America is a racist country." False

"Cuba is a worker's paradise." False

"The Bible is contradictory." True

"Jesus Christ didn't die on the Cross." Unknown

"The religious right in America wants to establish a totalitarian theocracy." False

"Modern homo sapiens are descended from apes." True

"Charles Darwin was an objective scientist." True

"Jews are inherently inferior." False

[Lokibob]

Carrying on with my rant:

The new mantra is : "I never saw the Cecil B. DeMille movie "The Bible" because I read the book".

Is this how we are going to go bravely into the 21st century?