Posted on 04/13/2006 9:01:38 AM PDT by Mike Bates
The Oprah-promoted James Frey book, A Million Little Pieces, turned out to be fiction described as fact. The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown, a full frontal assault on the basic tenets of Christianity, has been sold as fiction based on fact. And that is why the major media should scrutinize this novel that is being turned into a major motion picture.
Carl E. Olson, co-author of the book, The Da Vinci Hoax, says, "There is no such thing as just a novel or just fiction from the standpoint that even lightweight popular fiction has ways of influencing how we see the world and affects our perception of important and unimportant things. Fiction-if we broaden that to include television shows, sitcoms, movies-is probably the primary means by which most people today gain their understanding of big and small issues alike."
In an interview with Accuracy in Media, Olson said that another reason for scrutiny is that "it is clear there was an agenda behind this novel." He noted that Brown has said on the Today Show that he wanted to challenge Christian beliefs and that he became "a believer" in the bizarre theory that Jesus married Mary Magdalene, had a child, that a secret society called the Priory of Sion has possessed this shocking truth, and that the Christian Church has covered it up.
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Look, this thread is silly.
Informed people know it's fiction.
The ignorant and the perverts will continue to embrace it as "fact" so long as it serves their purpose, to discredit all religions that do not endorse their perversions.
Who cares?
I don't trust the media to give me an accurate weather report. So, I think I'll pass on turning to them for spiritual guidance.
I'm curious why there is this obsession with the "Da Vinci Code" movie. It's a movie of a novel -- it's a work of fiction. Everyone knows that.
And I wonder if you're so obsessed with stamping out movies of novels, works of fiction, why you're not out protesting "The Celestine Prophecy" movie. Do you know how bad it makes the Church look?
So you decided to contribute to it.
Informed people know it's fiction.
The ignorant and the perverts will continue to embrace it as "fact" so long as it serves their purpose, to discredit all religions that do not endorse their perversions.
There's no middle between "informed people" and "the ignorant and the perverts"? I disagree.
Who cares?
Apparently, at least you.
And you've determined I'm "so obsessed with stamping out movies of novels, works of fiction" how?
Drat! I keep making that mistake. Thanks!
It's fact. All of it. Angels and Demons too. All true.
Careful now. Some folks around here may be inclined to lump you with the "the ignorant and the perverts."
True indeed...stones laid in the shape of secret symbols, Mary (hubba hubba) Magdelane, Jesus' "great to the 15th power" grandson - Larry Flynt...all TRUE!!
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