Not to mention last week's article suggesting that Jesus walked on a rare ice formation on the Sea of Galilee.
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Posted on 04/16/2006 2:11:56 PM PDT by Dane
So while reading the papers on Friday, considering this, I glanced at the front page of USA Today.
"Hollywood turns to divine inspiration," said the headline, and above it was a photo of actor Tom Hanks and a French beauty in the new movie "The Da Vinci Code."
I hope the headline about divine inspiration was a pun, since the Hanks film appears to be a response to Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ." But Hollywood wants inspiration to produce movies that make almost $400 million, as Gibson's did, especially since Hollywood refused to help Gibson with his movie.
Most of you know that the Hanks movie was taken from a badly written book, informed perhaps not by the Holy Sprit, but as conservative writer Tom Roeser said the other day, by feminist politics. Also, that the new Hanks movie involves one of those Jesus conspiracies. In this one, Jesus has a child with Mary Magdalene, the first in a line of French nobles, and conservative Roman Catholics dispatch a crazed albino monk to assassinate anyone who may reveal the big secret.
Recently, there was news that trumpeted the discovery of the so-called Judas gospel. This gospel apparently expiates Judas' guilt. He can't be a betrayer if he and Jesus were allegedly in the conspiracy together. Although early Christian bishops ignored that book, it is being offered, again during the Easter season, as an archeological find, as a goad.
I usually skip such news. The incredible lengths to which the anti-Catholic "Da Vinci Code" has been marketed and the coverage of the Judas gospel as if it were a missing companion to the other four prove me right. It's always so relentless and familiar. It always revolves around the same basic premise:
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The USA Today article does promote the DaVinci code as a religious film, but also does go into some depth that some in Hollywood maybe getting it.
From the article: "But at least we're getting the chance to prove that there's an audience for movies with the right message."
If that message is doubt Christ's divinity and Catholic Church = evil.
There's nothing new from Hollywood here. If anything it's worse.
There's nothing new from Hollywood here. If anything it's worse
I agree with you, especially with the Davinci Code, but Hollywood can't ignore the success of "The Passion of Christ" and "Narnia", although you are probably correct that Hollywood will screw that up and put their own liberal biases in any new movies.
The Da Vinci Code is HOLLYWOOD's Leftist's religion and moral code.
It'll never be as well received as Gibson's "Passion of the Christ".
BTW, there a new website: miraclesofthepassion.com that tells of the transformations of people's hearts after seeing Gibson's film.
It is funny how when Mel Gibson made the Patriot, a fictious movie about the American Revolution, the media tore the movie apart for being inaccurate. Now this fictious movie is being passed off as historical fact and the media just cheerleads it.
Amen, brother.
That goes for Tom Hanks and ALL those involved in making anti-Jesus movies.
It'll never be as well received as Gibson's "Passion of the Christ".
I agree. The USA Today article is disingenuous in promoting Da Vinci code as a religious movie, but it had other tidbits and insight to what Hollywood is thinking especially since they can't ignore the success of "Passion" or "Narnia", even if they wished they could.
So predictable, though.
Narnia is an improvement. It may be that it made it because its religious tones are intentionally allegorized (is that a word?)
Da Vinci Code is unabashed virulent Catholic-bashing (and i would maintain Christian-bashing as well).
I would like to see them try the same with Scientology or Islam.
ON THE NET...
http://www.truthusa.com/RESURRECTION.html
And Ron Howard is the director.
This las "gospel of Judas" wa written by the gnostics. All of their writings and teachings have been rejected by Christianity as false.
No, I didn't notice. How do you figure?
Sigh. I didn't know that.
Too bad.
Scratch off another director/actor movie I won't see.
It is funny how when Mel Gibson made the Patriot, a fictious movie about the American Revolution, the media tore the movie apart for being inaccurate. Now this fictious movie is being passed off as historical fact and the media just cheerleads it.
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What a great observation!
Not to mention last week's article suggesting that Jesus walked on a rare ice formation on the Sea of Galilee.
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Causing people to see something they never saw before in a five-hundred-year-old work of art which is among the most famous and reproduced of all time is an accomplishment of genius, if that “something” is a valid new insight. If it is not, then this kind of achievement usually goes by other names.
What this novel does to Leonardo’s Last Supper, it does to Christianity as such. It asks people to consider equivalent to the mainstream Christian tradition quite a few odd claims. Some are merely distortions of hypotheses advanced by serious scholars who do serious research. Others, however, are inaccurate or false.
There's a few of us humble Christians tilling the mission fields of Hollywood.
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