Posted on 05/21/2009 6:47:26 AM PDT by rhema
These are Dan Brown's kind of readers. Piggybacking on the fascination with lost gospels and alternative Christianities, he serves up a Jesus who's a thoroughly modern sort of messiah — sexy, worldly and Goddess-worshiping, with a wife and kids, a house in the Galilean suburbs, and no delusions about his own divinity.
“’Angels and Demons,’ is cleaning up at the box office this week. The sequel to ‘The Da Vinci Code,’ due out in November”
It came out in May - is this a bad cut and paste by the writer?
It’s also “Jesus or Liberalism” -
“Liberal Christian” is an oxymoron, because everything about liberalism is the antithesis of the Word of God.
I’ve spoken with people, mostly liberals btw, who thought “The DaVinci Code” was real.
My God, it says right on the cover that it’s a NOVEL.
I read other book and found it very entertaining, but it is dazzling inaccurate(done, obviously, to enhance the plot).
But it is easy to understand how such a book and a movie can generate so much interest in America - as we turn more and more secular, and make up religion as we go along.
What a shame that many of us believe that we can figure out God. It is one of the great canards of our day.
>> You can have Jesus or Dan Brown. But you can’t have both.
Fine! I’ll take Jesus.
From Hebrews 10:
“28He that despised Moses’ law died without mercy under two or three witnesses:
29Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
30For we know him that hath said, Vengeance belongeth unto me, I will recompense, saith the Lord. And again, The Lord shall judge his people.
31It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. “
Good luck with that, Mr. Brown. I hope for the best for you, and I certainly have my own problems with obeying God. But I’d rather not be in your shoes come judgment day.
Years ago I read “Holy Blood, Holy Grail”, on which Brown’s books are based. It was a compelling read that left me with real concerns about my faith. I realized what the book was doing to me one day and I burned it.
No, it is all up to The Øbamanation's nominee... 
for Pope as soon as his religious stimulus package is passed!
“tendentions” = tendentious
Both the book and the movie were entertaining, but not necessarily heretical. Brown can spin a good yarn, but people need to be able to discern truth from fiction.
I saw the first movie hoping to see something that would challenge me to think. I was sadly disappointed. Not only was the plot thin but the movie never reached any good level of thrills or cinematic prowess. It was largely a waste of my time and energy. I can’t imagine the new movie or book will be any better.
Most people don’t believe Dan Brown’s crap because they are stupid and uninformed - they believe it because they want it to be true!
Mel
Well, no going to the theatre for this one..., I’ll just download and watch. I don’t want to pay anyone for garbage.
My God, it says right on the cover that it’s a NOVEL.
Even though those libs were idiots, Brown fueled that fire by insisting the certain things were "facts" at the start of the novel (but those facts were really hoaxes and BS).
I remember reading a Robert Ludlum novel in the 70s called The Gemini Contenders. Like, The Da Vinci Code, it involved a secret, that, if revealed, "would shake the foundations of Christianity". The book was a bestseller, like all Ludlum's novels. But it was not a monster hit like Brown's. Ludlum never went on TV claiming that his background info was "real". He just used some "secret documents" as a plot device.
I don't mind people idiots believing in brown's BS as long as they are not members of any serious Bible believing church.
So........
what’s the difference between “Angels and Demons” and “The Shack”?
None?
Angels and Demons is a prequel. A sequel to the DaVinci Code book is being released in November, just in time to give to all your anti-Christian friends for Festivus.
I enjoyed them both. But then again, I know they are fiction.
“The Shack” reminded me of “The Lovely Bones” another fictional novel that I enjoyed. They resonated with me because I am a parent, not because of any religious connection. The thought that a lost loved one (particularly a child) could still be “near” is comforting.
Those two plus the Brown books are all for entertainment. Not great works of art or religious treatises, but pulp fiction, quick beach reads, alternatives to tv. Brown pulls in lots of imagery from Rome and the Vatican which is interesting to this Catholic gal.
Man, do people get worked up about this stuff!
Its not really cleaning up at the box office. It came in at $43 million the 1st week which was $30 million less than the Da Vinci code. By contrast star Trek did $75 million in its 1st week.
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