Posted on 06/04/2006 3:37:34 AM PDT by familyop
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan has banned "The Da Vinci Code" following calls from both minority Christians and majority Muslims, an official said on Sunday.
The adaptation of Dan Brown's best-selling novel, the story of a Vatican cover-up involving Christ and his supposed offspring, has made hundreds of millions of dollars around the world since it opened last month.
But the screening of the film in Pakistan, or possession of it on video cassettes or discs, was prohibited and unlawful, said Jalil Abbas, secretary of the Ministry of Culture.
"The film is sacrilegious to all religions, that's why we did this," Abbas told Reuters.
Police had been ordered to conduct raids and confiscate pirated copies of the film available in markets of the Muslim-dominated country, he said.
Christians make up about two percent of Pakistan's overwhelmingly Muslim 160 million people.
You have to really love those Muslims. It is illegal to be critical of Christ, but if a Muslim really believes the word of Christ, they are killed.
So now the Christians are joining the Islamofascists in Pakistan? Can somebody please remind me of why America has a visa lottery?
I agree except for one thing. The line of fact and fiction is crossed so many times with filmmakers and many people accept fiction as fact.
There are people who actually believe that Jesus Christ was married to Mary Magdelene because it was in The Da Vinci Code. Dan Brown cleverly weaves just enough Biblical truth in with the lies to make the lies believable to those who are susceptible to lies about Christ because they have never been told the truth about Him and don't know Him.
These are the people Christians are worried about. Folks who are suseptible to lies and blasphemy and who are in danger of dying without Christ because of men who make money from denying Christ and lying about Him.
And it is the responsibility of Christians who have a personal relationship with Christ to stand up for Him and get the truth out about Him.
You said it all, thanks.
Thank you. Very well said. I was going to comment, but I couldnt say it any better. Amen.
Thank you.
Exactly right. I don't know why so many FR posters don't understand this. The faith of an authentic Christian who knows that what God's word says about who Jesus Christ is and what he has done for them is absolute truth will not be shaken by a blasphemous novel or the contrived plot of a Hollyweird film.
But those people are not the ones the author of the novel and those who made it into a film are trying to confuse and discourage from believing the gospel of Christ. Satan's age old tactic is to plant a subtle seed of doubt rather than a blatant denial of the truth. When he asked Eve, "Hath God said?" he planted that seed in her mind, and the result of that seed is the full grown tree of all of mankind's fallen, sinful human nature which can only be returned to it's original state of innocence in each individual man or woman by the salvation God has graciously provided through the substitutionary blood atonement of His Son Jesus Christ on the cross at Calvary.
The blasphemous novel and the film version are just more evidence to me that Satan is working overtime to create doubt and confusion in the minds of as many people as he can concerning the truth of the gospel of Christ as he sees the end of his temporary reign on earth coming to an end and the prophesied victorious, bodily, return of Jesus Christ drawing near.
Exactly.
2 Timothy 3:1-9:
1 But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come:
2 For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good,
4 traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!
6 For of this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,
7 always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
8 Now as Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, disapproved concerning the faith;
9 but they will progress no further, for their folly will be manifest to all, as theirs also was.
Satan knows his time short and he is on the rampage. The Da Vinci Code is just one manifestation of the deception and blasphemy we can expect as the days and months go by.
There are many people who will lose their souls because of trash like The Da Vinci Code. I wonder if it has ever occurred to Dan Brown just what he will do the day he faces God.
I don't know, but I imagine that he is so consumed with lust for fame and fortune that he hasn't given his eternal destination much, if any, serious thought. As much as I detest his futile attempt to destroy or weaken the church he obviously hates, I hope and pray that at some point in his empty life he will stop and consider the consequences he faces if he is wrong about who he believes Jesus Christ is and what He did on his behalf.
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