Greek Orthodox church slams Da Vinci Code (via Drudge 'damns'...)

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[dhuffman@awod.com]

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"The author (American Dan Brown) wants to damage faith in the church and in Christ, as perfect God and perfect man," says the leaflet.

[dhuffman@awod.com]

Typical christers -build their own strawman and burn him at the stake (auto da fe?)

[dhuffman@awod.com]

It is a damn (not making vain use of the Lord's name) novel! The various (archly said) churches' responses are most illuminating. The individual christers' retorts are generally pathetic, verging on the bathetic[sic]. Tagline...

[anniegetyourgun]

Christophobia takes many forms...including the nut job who posted this.

Aside from that, it is the duty of Christians to stand against a different gospel and a different Jesus - a counterfeit...a lie. Not one of these within the Greek Orthodox Church needed to build a straw man - they are simply following the commandments of God to speak His Truth to the world. I guess there will always be those who hate them for it though....because they hated Him first.

[dhuffman@awod.com]

As I said...their strawman "wants to damage faith in the church and in Christ, as perfect God and perfect man." The author of this novel wants to make a buck. Or does your tinfoil yarmulke have a leak? Tagline...

[GSlob]

In other likely news: while performing a ritual dance and shaking a stick to which several empty tin cans were affixed, the shaman of Bong-Bum tribe slipped on a banana peel, fell and broke his tailbone [some conflicting reports from the area claim that he has broken his tail]. The tribe took his fall as a sure portent of impending calamities, and a big witch-hunt is currently under way on all those who have recently eaten bananas.

[Unam Sanctam]

Gee, no bigotry, intolerance or demonization here, using a term like "christers"... I suppose you wouldn't dare use some equivalent expression for Jews or Muslims.

[Unam Sanctam]

And by the way, even "christers" have First Amendment rights, you jerk!

[Coleus]

they should also worry about certain members of their flock. the largest abortion mill in NJ is operated by a Greek Orthodox butcher.

[Migraine]

So, is it Jesus you hate, or just us who love Him?

I honestly do not know a single Christian who wants to ban this book, or the film. A lot of us are sharpening-up on the particulars of the ancient heresy of gnosticism, on which these fantasies turn. And that's good for us. We think the dialogue is good. Yes, the old-line authoritarian segments of the church, especially in authoritarian countries with no long traditions of free speech, may have a voice or two cry out for bans, and that gets all the news attention. But that is not the church I know.

[NYer]

The Greek Orthodox church reportedly criticised the best selling "Da Vinci Code" thriller, the film of which comes out in the coming days, as offensive and mistaken.

The semi-official Ana news agency said that a leaflet to be distributed to churchgoers at all Orthodox churches next Sunday states "From a religious and historical point of view the content of the book is wholly false."

"The work attacks and undermines in a treacherous manner religious knowledge," said the leaflet, produced by the church's supreme body, the holy synod.

The thesis of the book, which has sold millions of copies, is that Jesus Christ married, and had a child by, Mary Magadalene.

"The author (American Dan Brown) wants to damage faith in the church and in Christ, as perfect God and perfect man," says the leaflet.

"Quite apart from the fact that the book attacks Christ, it also attacks the church, directly accusing it of lying and deceiving the faithful."

The Orthodox church, to which 97 percent of Greeks belong, "does not call on people either to see or not to see the film, or to read or not to read the book ... but it is sure that those who do will see the lies and reject its riduculous content."

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[Mrs. Don-o]

The Orthodox church, to which 97 percent of Greeks belong, "does not call on people either to see or not to see the film, or to read or not to read the book ..."

Yeah, that's burning 'em at the stake, all right.

[Patrick_k]

As I see it, the 'Da Vinci Code" is to religion what is Rambo to the military, only a novel. Nobody talked of the love affair between John Rambo and Col. Trautman (That is his name, isn't it?) and the movies did not make it to the military academies and colleges as did "The Battle of Algiers". Thoughts should be always clear and one should have this always in mind while reading the book. But given the weakness of the human mind, I should not expect this awareness from everybody.

[anniegetyourgun]

Your tagline is a projection of your own conspiracy nonsense and hatred of Christians!