Posted on 05/19/2006 6:28:58 PM PDT by rhema
I'm a conservative, practicing Christian. And I'm not going anywhere near it. In case you haven't noticed, this thing has taken on a life of its own, FAR more than "just entertainment." You will of course do what you like, as is your right, but don't kid yourself that it's "just a movie." The book opens with a foreword that essentially says, "I've researched this to the ends of the Earth and all the principles are true."
In case you missed the stats in this and other articles, people are believing this crap. It's proselytizing and it's the kind that will land countless souls squarely in hell. Satan is thrilled with the movement and rest assured he and his minions have helped it along. Be sure to help him some more with your dollars.
MM
Why? Because everyone else does? Do you feel you have to belong, connect to the mainstream culture by reading such kitschy trash and seeing a bad movie (check out the reviews on rottentomatoes.com)? Would you feel left out if you didn't read the book, didn't watch the movie? These are serious and I hope not mocking questions. Confession: I didn't start watching Seinfeld until last year in re-runs (and I don't watch anything else.) Never felt left out. No, I'm not a better person of better Christian than you. It's just I don't understand this rush to be part of the mob consuming cultural products aimed at the lowest common denominator of taste. No Kenny G, no Garth Brooks, no Brown, no Tom Clancy for this cat. Let's aim high, let's at least aspire...
I wont see the movie because I have already read Holy Blood and Holy Grail years ago and it is just a rehash. I also don't support Hollywood much anymore.
You're taking kids to a movie with ideas like this?
Whatever...up to you of course.
Why not subtitle it...'A work of Hollywood fiction'. I think that would be more accurate.
What part of "fiction" don't you get? I just finished reading the book, it is not well-written and certainly not worth all the hype that certain people seem to like to stir up over it. At best, it is a paperback to read while waiting for a flight.
(Denny Crane: "Every one should carry a gun strapped to their waist. We need more - not less guns.")
I've sorely missed Feder, who's always struck me as a rightful heir to writers like Ambrose Bierce.
Amen. As a Catholic, it would be a grievous sin for me to support an effort that slanders my Savior and his bride the Church.
I read "Holy Blood, Holy Grail" years ago and it was one reason that lead me back to my faith (because research on the theories and "facts" within were dubious at best). But I would never have read the book if I was already a practicing Catholic because of the blasphemes contained in it.
If someone wrote a "fictional" tale about your best friend with all kinds of wild accusations wouldn't you stand up for him/her?
Of course Judaism is the other religion that is maligned.
I wonder why he didn't include Islam? Oh, that's right, he wants to be alive to write a sequel.
Hi Chop, it's your former stock watching buddy, how are you.
I haven't read the book, and I won't be going to see the movie.
A fatwa can put an awful crimp in your lifestyle.
What part of "this lame excuse has been refuted on this forum numerous times" you don't understand? Short version: I'm going to write a novel in which you appear as a murderous pedophile. Fiction, you shouldn't object. At the very least do try to refute the refutations. There are certain rules governing fiction writing, that you "it's FICTION, people" don't seem to be aware of, while the rest of us, whom you take for complete idiots, do. We can accept that it's fiction, we have (big surprise!) known it all along, and still protest and critique. D'uh Vinci Code violates these rules, while Gore Vidal's novel about Abraham Lincoln (and many other historical novels) doesn't. A little edumacation goes a long way.
You seem to want to force people to go see this dreck.
And Feder has adroitly figured out what it'll be: "Resist the urge to determine just how bad it is by buying a ticket. You'll only be rewarding the perpetrators -- perhaps encouraging The Da Vinci Code: Part II, wherein Dan Brown reveals that Jesus was really married to Lazarus."
I'm a voracious reader, fifty or more novels a year plus my daily Bible reading. I tried reading one of Brown's earlier books, DIGITAL FORTRESS, I think, and the writing was so juvenile I only made it a few pages before setting it aside. I decided to give him another shot and took DVC with me on a cruise as my primary read. His writing was marginally improved and the story held my attention. Until he gradually shifted out of storytelling mode and into blasphemous preaching. At which time I tossed it into the Pacific.
MM
Jones!
How are you??
MM
Fahrenheit 911 wasn't entertainment and it sold $222 million world wide.
And allow me, as another Jew, to weigh in with Feder in total agreement.
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