"Opie" Shafts the Christians

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

[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."

[poobear]

It's called "Fiction".

Yes it is fiction. You should have seen the smirk on a woman who is an admitted nonbeliever holding the book and saying this to me. It is a tool to mock Christianity not entertain. Millions upon millions who bought the book did so not for a good fiction read but to justify their doubts and disbelief of the Bible. They believe this book is fact. I won't see the movie or any movie produced by Dreamworks or Imagine or whatever Opie's name is now under.

[eleni121]

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.
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What do you expect...they are Canadians. Those long winters and Molsons incite their fantasies.

[Mike Bates]

What do you expect...they are Canadians. Those long winters and Molsons incite their fantasies.

Oh. so that explains it.

[eleni121]

OK then add socialist tendenceies and inferiority complex to the mix.

[Alex Murphy]

What would Aunt Bee think?

One must never forget the "Evil Opie/Da Vinci Code" connection.