Posted on 05/04/2006 9:23:45 PM PDT by Coleus
>> I'll admit that I haven't read the book, but I still can't see what all the huff is about. It's a FICTION NOVEL!! <<
It's a fictional novel based on circumstances it alleges are facts.
Oy. Enough with the worry, David. We have way too much of that. Forget all this kakameyme stuff this about movies creating anti-Semites -- they don't. Now go do something useful like join JPFO.
LOL! Sales of the book are skyrocketing. The movie will probably do great...all because of the free advertising.
I wonder if the Da Vinci Code will spark the same worldwide anti-semitic rioting we experienced after the Passion of the Christ was released---over similar objections.
"alleges as facts" to whip up controversy, to push book and movie sales. I am a rather religious individual, and I honestly cannot see all the uproar over this is all about. Let them tell write all the fantasy stories the like; I am quite comfortable with which book *I* trust.
I have no interest in seeing it unless there's a scene where the swiss guard chase Tom Hanks around the Vatican swinging those long pikes.
This Klinghoffer guy is the least-Jewish most evangelical Christian "Jew" I've ever heard of. There's nothing wrong with being an evangelical Christian, but it's odd to be one while affecting Judaism.
It's portrayed as a fictional account of true facts. Most people I know who read the book talk about how, "well researched it is," and how they were shocked by learning the truth about history.
all because of the free advertising. >>
yea, like the 300 hits this thread on the FR will get will be responsible for the millions of books sold and millions that will be made by the movie. I bet you'll be the first in line.
It's 'fiction' that too many secular-gullibles thim is 8true ...
"Opus Dei, the real-life Catholic lay order, asked Sony to place a disclaimer at the beginning of the movie admitting that the story is fictional — a request the studio has so far refused."
Oh, please!! I have more pressing things to worry about than a piece of fiction..Piffle.
FR doesn't really have too much to do with it. It's the public condemnation coming from the Catholic Church (which was headline news) and now apparently a Jewish publication.
I read the book. Dan Brown is a good writer, but the main plot elements come together in one enormous pile of rubbish at the end. Some things that may make DC popular:
1. The book rails against Christianity in general, the traditional view of Jesus as divine, and against Roman Catholicism in particular.
2. The author is very hung up on fertility and sexual symbolism, so the book ends up being a back-handed introduction to Sophia Goddess Worship. (That's why Jesus died on the cross?)
3. Opus Dei is secretive, powerful, and does indulge in the whip and the leg thingy, so that makes a few plot elements hang together.
4. Some places are real, such as Roslyn Chapel, or easily interpreted various ways, such as The Last Supper.
I think the movie will be as embarrassing as Water World. I have no problem with apostates advertizing their complete lack of faith in anything but pudenda, but I do object to their cloaking their fertility cult nonsense in Christianity and in the name of Jesus.
I heard there's a scene where the swiss guard battle an army of Hasidic rebbes with light sabers in Mall of America.
I agree with the author. All the more reason to imbue our children in the faith of their ancestors before the secularists deconstruct western civilization
BTW, Klinghoffer's "Why the Jews Rejected Jesus" is one of the best books on the subject I've ever read.
This is a bit of a stretch.
I think the world's Jews have enough on their plate to worry about getting their knickers in a twist about that silly book.
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