Posted on 03/09/2006 3:56:22 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
The more the Catholics whine, the more people are going to be interested.
There are very few people in America who believe the book is a historical narrative or that the upcoming film is a documentary.
Ron Howard always seemed like a nice guy, he should do what is asked ogf him, although I dont know why he made this crap into a movie to begin with ,except it probably will make money.
Does ANYBODY think this isn't fiction? If so, they're so dumb and so few, it's not worth worrying about.
Do you suppose the Catholics will blow up the theaters? Try to chop off the heads of the people who made the movie? Slit the throats of anybody who watches it? Call for the murder of the author?
You know the old story, tell a lie often enough...
Are the new age circles going to influenced by this press release or even by a disclaimer at the start of the film?
Gimme a break. The article posted here doesn't even address that premise.
It addresses things that it considers "factual errors".
Don't confuse the premise with the particular "facts" offered up in support of it.
You can take any premise widely regarded to be true and make up a bunch of false facts in support of it. That doesn't make the premise any less true or false.
Likewise, you can take a false premise and selectively offer true facts in support of it.
It doesn't change a thing.
That's what gets me. Why Ron Howard would make this?
Tom Hanks seems like a nice guy too? Why on earth would he choose to do this film, except maybe that it's a Ron Howard film?
Maybe because the book is one of the biggest best sellers in history and Howard thinks the movie might be a hit? He could use one.
You must be kidding.
I don't know anyone who thinks the book is a history book. Everyone I know who read it thinks it's a fast-paced novel.
It may or may not have played fast and loose with the facts, according to them, but none of them believed the narrative was anything but fiction.
Maybe we hang out in different crowds.
I know even some Catholics who think it's true. Not "newspaper" true, but "he switched it around a bit to protect himself but we all know it's true" true.
I don't remember seeing anything in the book that hasn't been researched and written about before - some of it - the possible marriage of Jesus and MM - that has been postulated for centuries. And there are many books and much research done and published LONG before Brown's book.
I have read and researched much of what is in the book for decades - and much that there wasn't room for in one book - that supports much of what is.
the Catholic Church DID, fact, vilify MM as the harlot of the Bible, slandering her so some hundreds of years AFTER Jesus...the better to submerge and discredit her. (ever ask Why?)But there is not one reference in the Bible that points her out as the harlot. The Church finally admitted it, after hundreds of years - in the 1950's.
It seems much of the vilification of Brown's book is part of the ageless dance of the churches trying to protect their power, money and glory - hundreds of thousands have died for that - and science was held back for hundreds of years. 500 years ago, to dabble in science or mathematics was to court fire at the stake.
and before someone wants also to judge me and start flaming - I Count God as my Father and Jesus as my Brother - and don't know how anyone can get from one day to the other in this violent, judgmental world without a firm faith in them and their protection. I just happen to rely more on what Jesus, Himself, said and taught than the churches and their potentates...
It's no surprise some churches, particularly the Catholic Church, objects to this book and movie. If people do further reading and research, they'll find out that Brown didn't get his story out of thin air. There are dozens and dozens of books and scholarly treatises written over hundreds of years. Much has, in centuries past, been systematically burned and destroyed. That wont work now.
Do the research yourselves - (Google the main postulations and personages -) make up your own mind, either way. Don't be religious sheeple...
People should do some independent research and study - there's a plethora of material on the subject(s) covering material for the past 2000 years.
Do "A GOOGLE" on the characters and postulations in the book - Brown didn't get his 'ideas' out of thin air.
An aside: The churches, down thru' the ages, has payed 'fast and loose' with the facts - consider the deep differences between the Christian churches - all from the same book. Maybe before they castigate Brown and Howard, they should get their own houses in order. Still, it IS a novel - Brown never said it was anything else.
If we are so insecure, unintelligent and easily led that we need writers, producers, etc to bow and scrape and explain and apologize, then we are, indeed, in deep doo doo as a people. Might as well be the Dark Ages again.
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