Posted on 05/22/2006 9:36:23 AM PDT by SirLinksalot
Monday, May 22, 2006 12:44 a.m. EDT Mel Gibson Slams 'Da Vinci Code'
Catholic actor Mel Gibson has slammed "The Da Vinci Code" book and movie for attacking the beliefs that he holds sacred, World Entertainment Network reported.
"The Passion of the Christ" star has been outraged about the thriller's controversial plot concerning Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene. [Editor's Note: Get NewsMax's special report "The Da Vinci Con" FREE with Ann Coulter's book, "Godless" CLICK HERE NOW!]
Gibson says, "What worries me is that people will take this as fact.
"I'm not angry, per se, that it refutes everything I hold sacred, the foundations of my beliefs. The Da Vinci Code is an admitted work of fiction but it cleverly weaves fact into maverick theories in a way that will appear plausible to some."
The angry star was actually the first choice of Dr. Robert Lomas (the intellectual who inspired the Robert Langdon character) to play him. Tom Hanks plays Langdon in the film
Gibson knows many Christians are badly instructed and so are easily deceived. But his objection is really one who feel that this film is deliberate blasphemy. Look up the word. It used to be outlawed for some of the same reasons that there are laws against slander and libel. There are something that one has no right to say even if they are at liberty to do so,
well, it would help if he made Mad Max IV, then all would be forgiven.
In what country?
Just call it "National Treasure" meets "Indiana Jones" with a script written in King James English by an Episcopal Bishop who "feels" God is doing a new thing because His Son shacked up with Mary Magdalene whose body was whisked away by the Knights Templar and turned over to Opus Dei Catholics so Leonardo DaVinci would figure out where her body was going to be after several centuries and put clues to its whereabouts in a super secret device that only someone in the 21st century could figure out.
*sigh*
Well, at least the popcorn was good.
I was commenting on your comment.
The fact that He gave me the ability to do so, gave me the right.
What you just said was that no one has the right to offend He whom you believe to be the Lord...yet, not everyone believes what you do, and I bet you offend the beliefs of other with regularity.
I haven't seen the movie yet (I will), but I don't see where anyone would be playing Jesus in it.
Jesus has been portrayed by many in many movies...including one made by Gibson.
What's your point?
Don't go see the movie.
Yeah...the Church engaged in genocide to correct blasphemy and heresy.
Books and movies that remind people of that fact are quite offensive to The Church.
Look up the meaning of the term blasphemy. This book and movie are offensive not because they say what the Church did but what she did not do, which was to conceal the truth about Jesus and St. Maude.
You've hit on the real issue here. Some years ago, a so-called artist named Serrano dropped a crucifix in a jar of urine. He called this work of "art" Piss Christ, and said it represented his contempt for the faith his parents tried to instill in him as a child. The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) declared this to be a great work, and awarded him a prize of several thousand dollars of taxpayers' money.
Conservatives & Christians objected to their tax money being used in such a manner. Of course, they were immediately accused of being censors, intolerant bigots, Ayatollahs, and they would have been compared to the Taliban had the term been around at the time. The media forgot the real issue, which wasn't Serrano's right to produce whatever garbage he wants, but the rights of the taxpayers to determine how their money gets spent.
But there was another issue. Would the NEA have dared to fund a work of "art" that treated Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, or any faith other than Christianity in such a way? Of course they wouldn't have.
And neither would Hollywood produce a film that slurred Islam the way THE DA VINCI CODE slurs Christianity. It simply wouldn't happen. Period. End of story. But let's imagine what would happen if they did.....
Well, such a film would not be hyped for weeks on the Today show and other media outlets. Posters for it wouldn't grace the walls of any business. Authorities wouldn't hang a banner for the film on a mosque (as happened in Italy to a Catholic Church with a DA VINCI poster). Public transportation wouldn't carry ads for the film. TV Networks wouldn't carry ads. The few theaters that agreed to show the film would receive bomb threats and violent riots would break out in the city. Half the nations on earth would ban the film, including nearly every European nation (where DA VINCI is doing very well). Anyone involved with the making of the film would be under a Salman Rushdie-type assissination bounty. And more.
So, Hollywood picks on religions that it's safe and fashionable to pick on. Isn't it great that being a cowardly bully is so profitable? Dan Brown & Co. may have plenty of arrogance and chutzpah, but they don't have a set. So they'll never push Islam around the way they push a faith that turns the other cheek.
That's laughable, we will all die...in time.
Exactly.
The Church has buried more truth than the truth they will ever willfully uncover.
Beauseant!
I need to apologize to you. I should not have brought up whether or not you were a Christian or that about the Jews as it could easily have been misunderstood.
There is plenty of outrage and many church groups are giving seminars on how to counter the untruths with the truth. And, the only reason is because they know that many in this world will grab on to a movie that claims a conspiracy theory and believe that indeed documents were hidden, etc., etc.
And, the reason they care? Because it is unflattering to the life of Christ when some claim that lies covered up his life. And, because they fear that too many will believe the lies and fail to become Christians thereby ruining their choice of eternity with God.
True - it is amazing how those that do not believe have no comprehension of the power of Christ. And, they try and tell us we should go see a "movie" that offends our Savior and His message because it is entertainment?
Not a clue.
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