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I am concerned that we're giving what is essentially a pretty awful piece of fiction more publicity than it deserves.

Regards, Ivan

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1 posted on 05/11/2006 10:23:40 PM PDT by MadIvan
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2 posted on 05/11/2006 10:24:04 PM PDT by MadIvan (I aim to misbehave.)
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I don't understand why any christian would go see this movie.


3 posted on 05/11/2006 10:35:04 PM PDT by Echo Talon
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There was a 90 minute program on the University of California cable network, UCTV, last month. The speaker was a Professor of History with training from various schools including Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena.

The speaker was a Protestant Christian. He spent the program demonstrating that the contents of the book doesn't even rise to a level of veracity which would require rebuttal by serious historians. He made the program because he was concerned that too many people have accepted the premises of the book as accurate. He stated that the sect of the Rosicrucian's was started based on a similar piece of sham literature.

He spent a lot of time debunking inaccuracies in the art aspects and pointed out that even the name is a sham: Da Vinci is a suffix indicating that Leonardo was from the town of Vinci. He said it would have made as much sense as writing a book about Jesus and referring to him as "of Nazareth".

His contention was that the book was actually good reading as fiction and he intended to see the movie expecting it to be good.

He spent some time pointing out that Dan Brown has been cagey when attempts have been made to get Brown to admit that the story line is fabricated.

I recorded the program on DVD for my son who is a seminary student.

[My Opinion]Protestants should not see this as attack on the Roman Catholic Church. It is actually an attack on the Christian faith! We need to stand with our Catholic brethren and beat this thing back. Remember that the "Passion of Christ" was brought to us complements of a Roman Catholic! :)
6 posted on 05/11/2006 10:47:49 PM PDT by the_Watchman
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Correction

The film is expected to be one of the biggest hits of the year despite being because it was denounced as "stridently anti-Christian" by Vatican officials.

Best propaganda a film can get for free.
7 posted on 05/11/2006 10:57:36 PM PDT by ndt
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Ah, if only there were a few cartoons of Mohammed in "The Da Vinci Code." Then we could at least have fun watching liberal heads implode as they screech about the need "sensitivity to people's strongly-held religious beliefs."

Funny how the "mainstream" (sic) press isn't covering that angle, eh wot?

8 posted on 05/11/2006 11:08:11 PM PDT by Prime Choice (We are RepubliCANs, not RepubliCAN'Ts.)
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"The cards feature 10 claims made in the book. Cinema goers are asked to judge whether they are fact or fiction by scratching the appropriate box. "

Quality aside, it is a NOVEL. Might as well distribute the cards outside a screening of Star Wars asking whether the viewers believe that Darth Vader is really Luke's father.


10 posted on 05/11/2006 11:24:24 PM PDT by Buck W. (If you push something hard enough, it will fall over.)
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Unbelievable all the fuss over this.

Hey, folks:

(a) It's just a work of fiction

(b) It's just a movie.

Thanks, folks, for your attention. Enjoy the buffet.


15 posted on 05/12/2006 12:30:56 AM PDT by JennysCool ("I simply do not remember getting out of bed.")
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For God's sake, it's a work of FICTION!!!!! Anyone who actually believes that Dan Brown is doing anything with this book other than chortling all the way to the bank and thanking the Vatican for their hyper-sensitivity and ridiculous attacks isn't firing on all cylinders!

We saw this same hysteria over Mel Gibson's movie "The Passion of the Christ" and it amounted to nothing. Again, the same with "The Temptation of Christ" and nothing happened.


26 posted on 05/12/2006 4:14:01 AM PDT by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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To: MadIvan
Ivan, maybe in a past day & age, yours would be the normal response.

However, for at least 30 to 40 years or so, the Judeo/Christian paradigm has constantly been attacked, ridiculed, weakened and harrassed.

Too many unchurched folks have so bought into the 'situational ethics' of today---- They do not recognize right from wrong, good from evil.

They are easily led.... and while many seek to fill the God void in their hearts, minds and souls.....this movie only confuses and blasphemes.

This movie is dangerous.

Once upon a time it probably would not have been....

I appreciate any and all efforts to refute this movie and book!

30 posted on 05/12/2006 6:14:28 AM PDT by Guenevere
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Listen to this on Windows Media: DaVinci Hoax
41 posted on 05/12/2006 12:41:54 PM PDT by ex-Texan (Matthew 7:1 through 6)
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I don't know if it will be broadcast again today (Sunday) but I did
catch the Da Vinci code show done by Coral Ridge Ministries (D. James
Kennedy).
Pretty good, plenty of good guest-experts.

I think it can be seen on-line with Real Player:
http://www.coralridgehour.org/


44 posted on 05/14/2006 4:16:12 PM PDT by VOA
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