Posted on 05/22/2006 11:29:05 PM PDT by L.A.Justice
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Michael Medved ping
Sweet nightmares.
And oh boy am I impressed. I guess you are ignorant of the fact that you can find just about any garbage you want on the Internet, duly indexed and catalogued by Google.
Opie was such a cute little boy too. So respectful of his pa. Who would have thought?
Certainly hasn't had any impact in our house. But it has qualified our long-time belief that hollywood asks "what if" Christ was versus "what if" Mohammed was, because they lack the, shall we say, courage, to do so.
Smearing Christ is an easy, not to mention tired formula. But if they wanna impress some of us between the coasts, they should try doing a biographical piece about that paedophile prophet.
Yeah right. Like that's ever gonna happen.
And oh boy am I impressed. I guess you are ignorant of the fact that you can find just about any garbage you want on the Internet, duly indexed and catalogued by Google.
Now, now, keep an open mind. I checked it out also, and have bookmarked the page to read tomorrow, when not pooped. This guy may have something here, or not. Won't know till I read up. You should too, just in case what he has said has some validity, rather than condemn outright based on lack of knowledge on your part.
I guess you always read up on everything even if it is somebody saying that gullibility is not in the dictionary.
Nobody is going to dispute that idolatry was rife, a worsening and spiraling problem among the Hebrews up to the time of the exile. You don't have to go looking at newage sewage, just read 1 Kings and 2 Kings. But to claim this was the official face of Judaism is the purest hogwash. No serious bible scholar subscribes to that.
The book is an amusing work of FICTION!
Picture this: DaVinci painted the Last Supper roughly 1500 years after Jesus was crucified. Exactly how does a person who was not an eye witness to the Last Supper gain any credence whatsoever?
I enjoyed reading it, but to take the book (and/or the painting) as a scholarly piece of work borders on the absurd/insane.
Nothing to see here, folks. Move on.
"But, no, accrording to Dan Brown, et al, Jesus of Nazareth was just a man, no more divine than John Doe... "
If this is what some took from the story then the some of the criticism is misguided. The suggestion was that Christ, being part man, had some of man’s ‘flaws’ – controversial, sure, but not the same as suggesting he was “no more divine than John Doe”.
But, yeah, you’re right about it being silly there was only one heir, although perhaps the implication was that Opus Dei was eliminating them.
Two points.
First, the old Testament clearly addresses the 'other gods' problems of Israel. You will that some of the kings even sacrificed their children to those gods. Solomon built altars to these gods to please his foreign wives. The issue is that the prophets preached against and Israel's failure to repent led to their undoing.
Regarding Da Vinci's "Last Supper", he identified the person in question as John the beloved in his sketches of the work. Slam dunk.
As I mentioned on this thread, it's almost too easy to pile a few more pejoratives on this stinker.
Regarding Da Vinci's "Last Supper", he identified the person in question as John the beloved in his sketches of the work. Slam dunk.
Well, of course! What would be the point in carefully encoding secret information if you go and give the code away? /sarcasm
I missed most of his show. What was he going on about?
Damn, the 'Flop' took in $77 Mil last weekend, I wonder how much more it really was when you figure in the offended Christians that were going to intentionally buy tickets to other movies and then sneak into DVC for 'research purposes'.
That's right. Did hear part of the second half of first hour and the very beginning of the third hour. I can't remember if I heard hour two or not. You are right, the parts I heard weren't the most riveting.
Thank you.
Let's look at the two - Jesus and Mohammed.
While we have sane discussions about what the film does or doesn't mean to Christianity, compare that to the brouhaha over cartoon Mohammeds. The very notion that any religion can dictate terms to the rest of the world is an affront!
Mohammed was a butcher, a goon, a child molestor. It's not surprising his zealots are little more than misguided, juvenile thugs.
When the Da Vinci Code book first came out, a friend was telling me about it. When he got to the part where the bloodline of Christ was supposedly in France, I told him to stop, right then.
Any story that goes from Jesus to some smelly, French aristocrat is a steaming pile of ... what is that stuff?
Sorry, but I cannot suspend disbelief that much.
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