'Dialogue' About the 'Da Vinci' Movie? No Thanks Hollywood wants Christians to have a 'conversation' about a movie in which Jesus is a fraud and church a sham.
By Barbara Nicolosi
I just read a ludicrous statement by some Christian pastor, calling for all Christians to go to see "The Da Vinci Code" movie when it opens. His statement was something to the effect of "Every Christian needs to see this film!" I beg to differ.
No. We don't need to see this film. We all know what is in it. (Especially me, as I have read the screenplay.) It is a movie which begins from the point that Jesus was a fraud. He was not only not Divine, he was less than a man. And His Church is a sham association of meglomaniacal conspirators whose unifying principles involvethe oppression of women
I have, thus far, been campaigning for a kind of non-campaign as regards "The Da Vinci Code." I was thinking that we should all just agree to ignore it, and put our efforts into praying for the people who hate Jesus and us, His disciples, so much that they would make this film. I was reluctant to throw any freePR at the project by speaking about it publically, as that is all that the studio wants here. The people promoting the movie want--with every fiber of their obscenely well-compensated beings--that we make this film an event.
The almost irresistible hook for us all is that we supposedly need to see "The Da Vinci Code," so that we can then tell all the other people what is wrong with it. All these Christians are being hooked in to write and speak about the film in the name of "dialogue." "How could you criticize something that you haven't seen?" And, "Everybody is going to be talking about this film! We won't be able to talk back if we haven't seen it."
Folks, there is no dialogue here. The dialogue which might have happened involved Sony and Imagine making changes in the story, changes that would have reflected some kind of fidelity to history or fairness. They didn't make those changes. Basically, because they wanted to bash Christians. (Quick, someone assure me that Time and Newsweek and the NY Times, et al. willnot be running reviews or ads for "The Da Vinci Code" because it is such an offensive caricature of the central figure of a major world religion!) Secondly, I don't agree that "everybody" is going to see this film. I found the script somewhere between idiotic and way too cute. I didn't find it half as clever as National Treasure....and that wasn't exactly a work of cinematic genius. As 80% of America is Christian, if they don't get us in, the movie basically tanks. And most of us probably weren't going to be going--until we were told "Every Christian must!" All in the name of "dialogue."
(Note from The Princess Bride: "You keep using that word 'dialogue.' I don't think you know what that word means." Dialogue is based on equal playing field. In this case, the "Jesus was a fraud" side gets a major studio film costing $150 million. Our side gets a little website and a discussion guide.)
Further, we absolutely do not need to see the film to talk about Jesus. No more than we need to see porn to talk about human sexuality. Or to read Mein Kampf to decide whether we can have an opinion about gassing Jews. Besides, it would be dignifying a really inane story. "The Da Vinci Code" is so ridiculous in its premises that it is giving it a false gravity to even take it seriously enough so as to argue about it. ("And tomorrow, the Christians will be offering a hermeneutic of moral praxis as can be gleaned from next week's episode of 'WWF Smackdown.' Ahem.") Yeah, let's all find a starting point for dialogue in the notion that a secret coterie of albino monks has been mythmaking about Jesus' divinity for 2,000 years. No, you go first.
I will not give money to this movie, they only want to tear down the Lord Jesus!
Trae
I do not remember if it was Discovery Channel or TLC that did a special on this, but basically in a nut shell they proved the whole "DaVinci Code deal was hog wash fiction!
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The Tazman aka Martin Price
Proud father of a Devil Dog
That's the difference in our great nation and the European Socialist Countries that still won't let their people hear the truth about the main religions in thier nations.
While I was in Romania there were "priests" in the Orthodox church being paid to tell people their future! I investigated this and found that they were using the "Da Vinci Code" how sad is that? The ones these people look to for God's truth, giving them lies in exchange for money!!! Hell will be hot for those who teach for doctrine the myths and fables of man.
Trae
Guys, I believe this is teh way its supposed to go down. We are supposed to be percecuted. I don't know too many Christians that have been sincerely percecuted for being a Christian besides missionarys in Africa or Haiti.
I ain't seein it.
I know its good to know the enemy, but it can be dangerous. I ahve been reading the Quran lately for research on my witness to muslims, and came to teh conclution, I am not mature enough in my walk to be able too. Same way here.
Anybody who has seen the Discovery channel documentary on the Da Vinci Code already knows all they need to know about its premise. What I took away from the show is that the DA Vinci Code is pure fiction and unlikely to be of much value in initiating a dialouge on Theological questions.
Da Vinci Movie, CHRISTIANS BEWARE!!!
