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Fact or Fiction in The Da Vinci Code
Media Monitor ^ | 4/13/2006 | Cliff Kincaid

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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TOPICS: Books/Literature
KEYWORDS: davincicode
My guess is the build up for the Da Vinci Code movie will equal, if not exceed, that of Brokeback Mountain.
1 posted on 04/13/2006 9:01:39 AM PDT by Mike Bates
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And that is why the major media should scrutinize this novel that is being turned into a major motion picture.

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?

2 posted on 04/13/2006 9:07:41 AM PDT by Publius6961 (Multiculturalism is the white flag of a dying country)
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To: Mike Bates

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.


3 posted on 04/13/2006 9:07:47 AM PDT by Millee
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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?


4 posted on 04/13/2006 9:15:46 AM PDT by TBP
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And thre Wizard of Oz is a true story.
5 posted on 04/13/2006 10:26:12 AM PDT by Old Seadog (Inside every old person is a young person saying "WTF happened?".)
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To: Publius6961; Millee
Look, this thread is silly.

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.

6 posted on 04/13/2006 11:42:10 AM PDT by Mike Bates (Irish Alzheimer's victim: I only remember the grudges.)
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My guess is the build up for the Da Vinci Code movie will equal, if not exceed, that of Brokeback MountainBrokebutt Mountain.
7 posted on 04/13/2006 11:43:43 AM PDT by Protagoras (The world is full of successful idiots and genius failures.)
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To: TBP; Millee
And I wonder if you're so obsessed with stamping out movies of novels, works of fiction. . .

And you've determined I'm "so obsessed with stamping out movies of novels, works of fiction" how?

8 posted on 04/13/2006 11:44:14 AM PDT by Mike Bates (Irish Alzheimer's victim: I only remember the grudges.)
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My guess is the build up for the Da Vinci Code movie will equal, if not exceed, that of Brokeback MountainBrokebutt Mountain.bareback mountain.
9 posted on 04/13/2006 11:47:20 AM PDT by AxelPaulsenJr (More people died in Ted Kennedy's car than hunting with Dick Cheney.)
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To: Protagoras

Drat! I keep making that mistake. Thanks!


10 posted on 04/13/2006 11:47:55 AM PDT by Mike Bates (Irish Alzheimer's victim: I only remember the grudges.)
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It's fact. All of it. Angels and Demons too. All true.


11 posted on 04/13/2006 11:48:50 AM PDT by Hoodlum91 (Tour guide goddess)
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To: Hoodlum91

Careful now. Some folks around here may be inclined to lump you with the "the ignorant and the perverts."


12 posted on 04/13/2006 11:54:16 AM PDT by Mike Bates (Irish Alzheimer's victim: I only remember the grudges.)
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To: Hoodlum91
It's fact. All of it. Angels and Demons too. All true.

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!!

13 posted on 04/13/2006 11:56:53 AM PDT by LilDarlin (Being very feminine got me this far; it will take me the rest of the way, too!)
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