"Opie" Shafts the Christians

Media Monitor ^ | 4/14/2006 | Cliff Kincaid

[Mike Bates]

What would Aunt Bee think?

[Always Right]

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."

They must believe that someone besides the disciples wrote the books of the New Testament.

[mtbopfuyn]

These are the same folks who swore Harry Potter was going to turn our children into satan worshipers. For the 4,867th time.... it's FICTION!

[Bosco]

The church where I am a member is doing a 5 week series titled "Unlocking the DaVinci Code" to answer the charges made in the book/movie. The charges are very old but many people are a) ignorant of what the Bible says, when it was written, etc., and b) ignorant of all the different ideas/schemes/inaccuracies of the past.

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.

[kittymyrib]

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.

[Always Right]

These are the same folks who swore Harry Potter was going to turn our children into satan worshipers. For the 4,867th time.... it's FICTION!

Harry Potter was fiction, this is blasphemy. Believe me there are a lot of people who view this film as scientific fact.

[theDentist]

But it's not just an attack on matters of faith, he emphasizes; the book is historically wrong.

It's called "Fiction".

[Obadiah]

Ah, ah, oh...amen to that!

[gate2wire]

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.

[theDentist]

Haven't read it. I'll probably catch the flick later when it's out on DVD.

[Mike Bates]

One-third of Canadian readers believe the Da Vinci Code is true

"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."

[gate2wire]

Some of the story was out right stupid, but I liked the journey from historical site to site.

[theDentist]

That and a buck will buy a cup of coffee. How many millions believe that Hillary actually shot Vince Foster?

[Mike Bates]

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?

[theDentist]

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.

[Mike Bates]

First you suggest there are millions who think Hillary shot Foster. Now we're down to, "Oh there are a few out there."

OK.

[theDentist]

OK. Bad example. Perhaps I should have said "Alien Space ships".

[buck61]

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.

[buck61]

May I suggest the following address for some good reading.
rob1@tds.net

[mtbopfuyn]

Believe me there are a lot of people who view this film as scientific fact.

And they're ignorant fools.