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1 posted on 05/19/2006 3:52:43 PM PDT by Simi Valley Tom
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"Jews are inherently inferior."

We've all heard these falsehoods bandied about in the mass media, including some of our most popular movies, books and TV programs.


Which of "our most popular movies, books and TV programs" pushed this?
2 posted on 05/19/2006 3:56:58 PM PDT by Borges
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To: Simi Valley Tom
I know a fairly left-leaning girl who happens to be studying classical history, and according to even her, the da Vinci Code is pure BS with no grounding in fact or history. I have no intention of reading the book or seeing the movie.

Nay, the next movie I see will be Snakes on a Plane. It promises to be a cinematic tour de force.

3 posted on 05/19/2006 3:57:56 PM PDT by Gordongekko909 (I know. Let's cut his WHOLE BODY off.)
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To: Simi Valley Tom

bttt


5 posted on 05/19/2006 3:59:46 PM PDT by Christian4Bush (FreeRepublic and Rush Limbaugh: kevlar protection from the Drive-By Media.)
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To: Simi Valley Tom
Christians protesting The DaVinci Code have given the book and the movie more free publicity than the author and the studios could ever have hoped to have been able to afford.

I'm sure they thank you.

7 posted on 05/19/2006 4:01:37 PM PDT by Amelia (Education exists to overcome ignorance, not validate it.)
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Oh, for pete's sake! Get a life, Church! How can you get so bent out of shape by a bad sci-fi movie? We Jews have been getting slandered for 5,000 years by unfiendly people who want us all dead. Open a newspaper overseas for a chance. Grow a callus. Get tough or find another line of work.


8 posted on 05/19/2006 4:06:07 PM PDT by pabianice
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C'mon Tom, fess up. You work for Sony Pictures.


9 posted on 05/19/2006 4:06:52 PM PDT by GSWarrior
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Honestly, Cecil B. DeMille must be rolling over in his grave.

There was a period of time in this country when religious stories of any type were welcomed.

These days, if you film a religious themed story (Mel Gibson, Ron Howard), it is jumped on with both feet, from the left, the right and the center.

Is discussion really that bad? DeMille didn't think so.

If one person saw this movie and decided that, in fact, the bible was correct, wouldn't it be worth it. The other side of the coin, is the bible on such thin ice that a film can upset the whole thing?
11 posted on 05/19/2006 4:11:54 PM PDT by Lokibob (Spelling and typos are copyrighted. Please do not use.)
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I am still amazed at the vilification and the credit given Brown for these ideas.

Good glory - he was even sued by contemporary writers, Leigh and Baigent, for "stealing their ideas" from their NON-fiction book: Holy Blood, Holy Grail."

Altho' a bogus suit to begin with as one cannot copyright ideas - and they lost their shirts as the judge told them just that - it should have clued some of the clueless to the fact that the 'ideas' in Brown's books did not come from him...

These "ideas" have been around for 2000 years...and even, currently, there are many other books - Nonfictional now in print that go into much deeper detail and list bibliographies...

One in particular, that got Brown started, was the book "The Woman with the Alabaster Jar" (dare I say it again, NON-fiction)written by a life long Catholic with an impressive bio.

Yet nowhere have I heard a hue and cry about these authors and their claims in their NON-fiction books. Curious>

Is it that people just aren't reading that much anymore?

For those who might have an individual mind, it might be interesting to check out some of the NON-fiction books.

the aforementioned "the Woman With..." by Margaret Starbird, is a great starting point - and then moving on to Sir Laurence Gardner's books, etc.

(Starbirds' bio: Margaret Starbird holds BA and MA degrees from the University of Maryland where she concentrated in comparative literature, medieval studies and German language, studies she pursued on a Fulbright Student Grant at the Christian Albrechts Universitat in Kiel, Germany. She taught German language at the University of Maryland for four years and for one year at North Carolina State University. She later studied at Vanderbilt Divinity School in Nashville, TN. She has lived and traveled extensively in Europe including pilgrimages to Black Madonna and Mary Magdalene shrines and Cathar citadels in Provençe." her web site:

http://www.margaretstarbird.net/

Here's a stained glass window in a church in Europe - longggg before Brown was born.

For all those demanding 'truth' - maybe you should stop blaming/crediting Brown with these "ideas" - it ain't true

12 posted on 05/19/2006 4:12:58 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (Lincoln: "...but you can't fool all of the people all of the time.")
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To: Simi Valley Tom

I will bet if any one of these people that say they do not have faith are the first ones up offering prayers to God when something goes wrong.

They don't understand how sustaining faith is; our comforting it is. I can't imagine a life without it.


14 posted on 05/19/2006 4:22:28 PM PDT by freekitty
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To: Simi Valley Tom

This book/movie is just the beginning of the emerging of new (old) truth, however imperfect, that will challenge the creeds of orthodox western religion, which in my opinion, is due for a large overhaul.


18 posted on 05/19/2006 4:30:28 PM PDT by Rennes Templar ("The future ain't what it used to be".........Yogi Berra)
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To: Simi Valley Tom

"The First Amendment provides for the separation of Church and State." True

"The Founding Fathers were all deists." False

"America is a racist country." False

"Cuba is a worker's paradise." False

"The Bible is contradictory." True

"Jesus Christ didn't die on the Cross." Unknown

"The religious right in America wants to establish a totalitarian theocracy." False

"Modern homo sapiens are descended from apes." True

"Charles Darwin was an objective scientist." True

"Jews are inherently inferior." False


19 posted on 05/19/2006 4:33:13 PM PDT by shuckmaster (An oak tree is an acorns way of making more acorns)
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A thread where even post #2 would not be NB4HITLER


27 posted on 05/19/2006 6:05:44 PM PDT by ml1954 (NOT the disruptive troll seen frequently on CREVO threads.)
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