[JZelle]

Can we classify Dan Brown a false prophet? On top of everything else, it really looks like the end times.

[edcoil]

I believe the Christian message is that Christ died, was buried and rose again into heaven for our sins.

That is the one critical Christian message and this book does not even address it.

[DeweyCA]

Rush said that critics are saying that the movie is a bomb. People were laughing during the serious parts. I would love it if this movie tanked because it is just plain boring.

[JeeperFreeper]

For those interested in a factual look at the early Christian church, read "The History of the Church" by Eusibius about 325 A.D. or so. It is fairly well written and the translations are excellent.

[stuartcr]

What's wrong with classifying him as a fiction-writer?

[Ptaz]

You know just when you think something the world does is going to discredit God's message, it seems it always comes around to enhancing the message. God is still in control and I just have a feeling all this attention may make that message even more powerful than it ever is. A few fish and a few loaves of bread can feed multitudes, a few ideas intended to lessen the power of God's Word, could just make it that more powerful.

[Luke21]

There will be plenty of this. They attack our faith left and right. They assault our Lord every chance they get, but they won't show an image of a Muslim "prophet" for fear and trembling of giving offense.

They are vipers. May they worship their god. We will worship ours. And I'd rather be us in the long run. You know what I mean.

[BW2221]

The good thing is the movie must really be a dog if the critics at Cannes won't even praise it.

[JimSEA]

If you look at the last 2000 years, this is just another small perversion of the kind that has always fascinated people. This, like its relatives, will fade and be little remembered. The central core of Christian theology has tracked through major divisions, horribly corrupt church leaders and institutions, and a battle to the death with Islam (currently heating up once again). The Borgia and Medici Popes or England's Cromwell or Henry VIII will likely be remembered, Dan Brown -- I doubt it.

[The_Reader_David]

The thing is, sadly the absurd lie that traditional Christian doctrine, both Orthodox and Latin (and for that matter Coptic and Assyrian, too) was a creation of a still-pagan Emperor Constantine has had great currency for decades in some protestant circles (notably the ones who loudly call themselves 'Biblical Christians').

I've often said, when it comes to Church history, the sequent to "Those who cannot remember the past" isn't "are condemned to repeat it," but "are condemned to make it up."

Brown isn't breaking new ground on the making up Church history front with his Constantinian lies. On the other hand, he does seem to have achieved a breakthrough for the Evil One by giving more popular currency to the gnostic lies concerning Christ and St. Mary Magdalene (who, incidentally, despite St. Gregory the Dialogist's confusion, was not the repentent prostitute who first anointed Christ's feet with ointment, but rather, a life-long virgin from whom He cast out seven demons) than those particular fabrications have ever had before.

[TexanToTheCore]

I am sure that it will open to pretty fair revenues, but that they will go down very fast afterwards. The reviews will be on the Internet shortly after viewing and I suspect they will compare favorably with Battleground Earthy.

This movie will be the MOAB of the hazy, lazy days of summer.

After all, would you go to a movie whose main freature is word games if you knew all the answers?

"Wheel of Fortune" with car chases.

[gondramB]

>>Can we classify Dan Brown a false prophet? On top of everything else, it really looks like the end times.<<\

Do false prophets usually label their own work as fiction?