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I hate to tell you this, but a Christian friend of mine loaned me the book before I ever heard of the controversy. It was a best seller before anyone ever thought of debunking it. And lots of people were believing in the historical accuracy, while knowing that the actual plot was fiction, before the anti-Da Vinci Code books came out. You're confusing the cause and the effect. Why is it that you don't want people exposing the lie? Nobody has called for the book to be banned. Nobody has called for the publisher or the booksellers to be boycotted. People are just calling for those who know the truth to tell it. And that seems to bother you. Why? Shalom.

Oh I love it. The old, "you disagree with me so you must have some weird motives you aren't mentioning". This is done for the benefit of anyone else reading the thread so that they also might have some doubt in their minds about my motives in order to distract from what I am saying.

Here is my deal...."The Last Temptation of Christ" would have never gotten out of the art houses if it hadn't been for thousands of foolish Christians protesting, making a controversry, and giving it free press. People went to see the movie because of controversy. The message the makers wanted to make was heightened by dumb...dumb...dumb...protestation and gave them lots more money to go do the next thing.

Dan Brown's book is a momentary piece of pop fiction. It will go away if allowed to do so. As with all pop culture, it will have its moment and fade away. If allowed.

Why do I not want protests, and debunking, and exposing of lies about a fictional book? Because it will heighten awareness of the thing, it will extend the period of time its ideas will hover in the popular culture, it will increase the money in the pocket of its author, it will allow the press to publicize the thing because protestation is newsworthy.

I do not want these things. I want the movie to come out, be seen, and then fade away into oblivion soon after.

Your protests will not prevent the movie from coming out. But it will keep it in the public eye longer, and it will get it free press and publicity, and it will make people curious to see what the fuss is about. I do not want that.

If you want to do something...go preach the gospel correctly and do not mention Mr. Brown or his movie or his theories. Unless you think Christianity cannot be saved without mentioning him.

I personally think that the 2000 year old religion has survived much worse that Dan Brown. Much, much, much, worse. Survived it just fine. It has no need to answer a fiction book that will be forgotten completely in a few years.

Maybe you don't think so. Maybe we are doomed without you protesting and debunking Mr. Brown and raising a big stir. Sorry....I do not. That is why.

Oh I love it. The old, "you disagree with me so you must have some weird motives you aren't mentioning".

Even better. You are vehemently arguing against people who are advocating doing nothing more than telling the truth. It's not that you are disagreeing with me, it's that you are trying your best to dissuade anyone who simply wants to tell the truth about the book. We're not in favor of putting the book into peoples' hands so they can read it so we can tell them why it is wrong. We're not advocating renting halls and advertising speeches so people who know nothing about the book will learn of it. We're advocating telling the truth to anyone who wants to know.

The "Last Temptation" thing won't fly. The Christians didn't rise up against this book before it was published. They rose up after it became a best seller. So try a real argument.

Or better yet, try to explain why you are against people telling the truth about the book?

Shalom.