Ah, ah, oh...amen to that!
Posted on 04/14/2006 5:44:26 AM PDT by Mike Bates
Carl E. Olson finds fault with Ron Howard, director of "The Da Vinci Code" and little "Opie" on the old Andy Griffith shows, for saying that he wants to see the film stimulate "conversation" about the nature of Christianity. "On the surface that sounds reasonable," Olson tells AIM in an interview. "We are a free society and we encourage debate. But one of the questions I would ask is: would we encourage open and honest debate with people who deny the holocaust or who say that the world is flat or say that Stalinism was a wonderful thing and people thrived under it. Where do we draw this line?"
The answer is that Christians and their beliefs are fair game for journalists who would dare not publish or even describe in detail the Muhammad cartoons that caused riots, violence, and death throughout the Middle East.
Olson(SNIP) tells AIM: "Consider the things that are said in The Da Vinci Code. If similar things were said about Islam, I think we'd have a lot of people very angry. Obviously, if cartoons upset people, consider a novel written from the premise that the prophet Muhammad was a closeted homosexual who only had a large number of wives to cover up this secret life."
The bottom line, he says, is that The Da Vinci Code book and film are "attacks on core Christian beliefs and Christian events." But it's not just an attack on matters of faith, he emphasizes; the book is historically wrong. It states, for example, that nobody believed Jesus was God until 325 AD and the church decreed it. This simply flies in the face of the historical evidence of what early Christians believed. The book, he says, is an all-out assault on the "facts of history."
(Excerpt) Read more at aim.org ...
They must believe that someone besides the disciples wrote the books of the New Testament.
The Bible stands up for itself pretty well as a trustworthy document. It's easy to say the stuff about Jesus not being God, not actually dying on the cross, etc., but it's real hard to prove it in light of the evidence to the contrary. If one is ignorant of what it actually does say, it's easy to believe what it doesn't say.
Bring 'em on.
Opie was a sweet character in a charming series in the days when children could watch TV with their parents. Ron Howard is a Follywood liberal who tried to defame the heroes of the Alamo two years ago and went down in flames. So of course, being a liberal, he's decided to villify Jesus Christ this time. No Christian will see this blasphemous film. "Be not deceived. God cannot be mocked. Whatever a man sows, that he will reap." Galatians 6:7.
Harry Potter was fiction, this is blasphemy. Believe me there are a lot of people who view this film as scientific fact.
It's called "Fiction".
Ah, ah, oh...amen to that!
I kinda liked the book. Did not take it seriously. Was not offended. Called bull$hit numerous times at lies and inaccuracies.
No desire to see the movie though.
Haven't read it. I'll probably catch the flick later when it's out on DVD.
"Almost two million Canadians who read the mega-selling book, The Da Vinci Code, ended the novel convinced that Jesus Christ fathered a line of descendants on Earth, a new survey suggests."
Some of the story was out right stupid, but I liked the journey from historical site to site.
That and a buck will buy a cup of coffee. How many millions believe that Hillary actually shot Vince Foster?
I've never heard of anyone who thinks Hillary exercised her Second Amendment rights in that instance. Can you name any?
Oh there are a few out there. Same people who believe that Ron Brown was shot in the head after the Clinton Admin tricked the air flight into plowing into a mountainside.
OK.
OK. Bad example. Perhaps I should have said "Alien Space ships".
The Da Vinci code shows how civilized people can approach the subject peacefully weather they agree or not on its contents.
I don't believe a word of the Da Vinci code, but I'm not going to my neighbor who may agree with it, and blow his brains out.
May I suggest the following address for some good reading.
rob1@tds.net
And they're ignorant fools.
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