The Da Vinci phenomenon

WORLD ^ | May 20, 2006 | Gene Edward Veith

[beethovenfan]

People are willing to believe anything but the Bible.
The judgement will truly be a terrible day for many, when
they come face to face with the Truth they have purposely
ignored.

[nosofar]

Now someone can write a book about the radical vestiges of hedonistic pagan cult (oddly not unlike today's liberal 'secular humanists') infiltrating the Church with the ultimate goal of destroying it by pomulgating misinformation to a gullible public.

[Biblebelter]

And any movie that puts Jesus at the center of a cultural debate, he said, "is something Christians ought to be interested in."

I read Holy Blood, Holy Grail when it first came out and I got the point, it was simply an attempt to deny the Resurrection of Jesus Christ which the Apostle Paul asserted was the basis of the Christian faith. I never read the DaVinci Code which was a rip off of Holy Blood Holy Grail. I certainly do not think Opie teamed with Forrest Gump can bring anything to this sensational blasphemy that this Christian could be interested in.

[MEGoody]

I haven't read the book nor do I plan to see the movie. But I won't be protesting against it. That just draws more attention to it and more people will want to see it.

What does surprise me is the number of people who believe everything this novel has to 'sell.' Dan Brown can't even get the dates surrounding the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls right. (That's an easily googled fact. Guess he thinks google is a conspiracy too.)

[CitizenUSA]

beethovenfan wrote: "People are willing to believe anything but the Bible."

I know some Christians who loved the Da Vinci Code. I haven't read it and won't. It's heresy. Tom Hanks thinks it damn good fun. Well, he's got the "damn" part right.

[EternalHope]

I won't be seeing it. Nor will I be seeing any more movies with Tom Hanks, or movies directed by Ron Howard.

[HEY4QDEMS]

I never read the DaVinci Code which was a rip off of Holy Blood Holy Grail.

I read both books and I can tell you DVC is no way a rip off of HBHG.

At least DVC doesn't claim to be non-Fiction likw HBHG does.

[BurbankKarl]

What was controversial about The Passion of Christ?

That it was made outside the studio system?

That it did so well?

That it was shunned by the Academy of Motion Picture Sciences?


Da Vinci Code - 43 million copies in print

Bible - 166,000 distributed a day

[sine_nomine]

Brown gets basic information wrong, which is the problem with this kind of a novel. It pretends to be factual but is loaded with false information and wacky theories.

[Mr. Blonde]

That it was anti-semitic remember. We were going to see a wave of hate crimes against the Jews.

I think the movie looks really good. Being that there are so many innaccuracies in movies that are supposed to be historical, I'm not going to bother getting too caught up in a film that doesn't claim that. It will be interesting to see how much this movie makes. Will a lot of people still want to see a movie for a book they read? I predict at the end of the summer POTC II smokes it in total box office.

[frogjerk]

Brown gets basic information wrong, which is the problem with this kind of a novel. It pretends to be factual but is loaded with false information and wacky theories.

People who love "The DaVinci Code" probably liked "JFK" and will probably like "Loose Change".

[HEY4QDEMS]

What was controversial about The Passion of Christ?

Don't you remember?, after Passions of Christ, the nation was swept up in a wave of non-violent, non-vocal anti-semitism.

[RoadTest]

"The church connections leave the entertainment press mentioning The Da Vinci Code in the same breath as The Passion and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe—examples of the money waiting to be made with "religious-themed" movies."

The love of money is the root of all evil.

[HEY4QDEMS]

I hated JFK, never saw Loose Change. I plan to see DVC next weekend.

I read the book and I still believe in God and Christianity so I think I'll be able to resist jetting off to the Louvre to worship beneath the inverted Pyramid.

[nightdriver]

If people knew their Bibles, The Da Vinci Code wouldn't even rate a snort.

[frogjerk]

If people knew their Bibles, The Da Vinci Code wouldn't even rate a snort.

The DaVinci Code doesn't. It will be forgotten after all of the hoopla and The Bible will still be here.

[theFIRMbss]

>If people knew their Bibles, The Da Vinci Code wouldn't even rate a snort

Well, I'm pretty fond
of the Bible, but I still
enjoyed the source books

Dan Brown made use of,
like "Holy Blood, Holy Grail."
"The Da Vinci Code,"

however, I found
to be a pretty dull read.
Not evil, just dull.

[ex-Texan]

DaVinci Hoax.mp3

[KillTime]

I read the book, too and thought it was great! I love mysteries and the book as so many parts going on at the same time, that dispite my knowing the main thesis part (Mary M wife of Jesus) I could hardly put the book down. Never mind that historic parts of the book are factually wrong, it was a good yarn told well.

It's my personal belief that those who will not see/read it due to it's theme and won't come to grips that it is really just a story, perhaps are already lacking in strong conviction of their faith to begin with, and fear this one story would topple them off the edge into non-belief. It certainly hasn't warped me and my beliefs; my belief in Christ has not been altered and still consider myself a Christian.

It's a story, sort of like a reliious-themed "National Treasure" movie of our founding fathers treasure flick from a couple years ago.