[NYer]

Be sure to visit the Jesusdecoded web site. It provides excellent rebuttals from several well known catholics on the errors in the DaVinci Code.

[bnelson44]

[Martina]

US bishops seek to educate about Jesus prior to release of Da Vinci Code film

This is a good idea.

It is hard to believe that little Opie Taylor (Ritchie Cunningham) turned into a Catholic hater, anti-Christian bigot who hates Our Lord.

I hope Opie's smelly film bombs.

[Nihil Obstat]

Thanks for the link, NYer.

I enjoyed the Liz Lev article there. She makes Dan Brown look like a complete fool.

The Real Leonardo
By Elizabeth Lev

Along with trashing Christianity, Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code is a veritable museum of errors where Renaissance art is concerned. Art historians have been slow in responding, mostly because it is difficult to know where to start. The novelist’s imaginative notions of iconography may make for best-selling fiction, but they are wildly at variance with what is known about the life and work of Leonardo.

The Da Vinci Code denies Leonardo da Vinci’s identity as a Christian artist, working for Christian patrons and painting Christian subjects. Ignoring the sacred nature of Leonardo’s work, Brown twists the images, inserting them into a tawdry tale of his own making.....

read it here:

http://www.jesusdecoded.com/leonardo1.php?page=1

[Revel]

Anyone aware that on 6/6/06 a movie called "the beast" is going to be released. Its purpose is to say that Jesus is a conspiracy, and that he never existed.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40867

Does anyone see the agenda here with all of these movies?

Evil times have come.

[kerryusama04]

Why not just point to the first 4 books of the New Testament instead of launching a website?

Rome's reaction here is going to make Dan Brown a whole lot of money. Remember how the left tried to squash "The Passion". Anyone who takes their theology from the Da Vinci Code is a fool.

[Jeff Chandler]

US bishops seek to educate about Jesus

Taking time out from their socialist agenda, I see.

[Salvation]

BTTT!

[trisham]

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[SaltyJoe]

It's best for a husband to never enter a stripper nudey club. The consequences can be devistating to his relationship with wife as well as to his Creator. Why give Satan a toehold to break apart a Sacred Marriage. And if a nudey bar is so deadly to the soul, why only limit the temptations of lust to avoiding naked slithering women? And, are married men the only members of the male sex that should avoid nudey clubs? Thus, all men and boys should avoid all temptations of lust (pornography included).

So why talk about temptations of lust when it comes to anti-Christian literature? Because there's no relationship more important to the soul than having a relationship with God. If historical facts are so perverted as to distort the Holiest of Truth into mere novelty/fantasy, then why give the diabolical a toehold as an edge against our intellect.

Eve gave pause to listen to Satan's devilry and he ensnared her interest and will. Adam chose loyalty to Eve over Love of God and he, too, sinned. Though there are plenty of men who won't fall to lust if they page through a dirty magazine or visit a strip club; but, there are many many men who won't or cannot overcome the powerful images of lust or lap dance. Avoiding the temptation shows a higher devotion to soul's relationship to Our Creator as well as giving wisdom to not tease a personal weakness.

Avoid anti-Christian literature that is clearly meant to entertain a wicked way. Love delights in the Truth rather dwelling with infatuation upon falsehoods. There are intellectual minds strong enough to discern and resist such evil. All others seeking to remain in Communion with God should rejoice in the trust that Faith shows to be either good and of God or evil and not of God.

It's been well established that "The Da Vinci Code" is so far out of bounds that it cannot lead a soul to find Jesus or a better relationship with God. Eating this fruit is to put the intellectual mind at risk of believing and participating in the lie that "we can become like gods".