Da Vinci Frenzy
Monday May 22, 2006
Responding to Catholics who demanded a 'fiction' disclaimer for the Da Vinci Code movie, actor Ian McKellen suggests the bible ought to carry such a label. As you can probably guess, Catholics were not happy to have the tables turned. It's fine to decry one version of first-century events, but don't go touching theirs!
Tom hanks also made a run at critics in a Saturday Night Live sketch, which infuriated humor-impaired DVC opponents. (When visiting the above link, don't miss the detailed instructions on how to protest the movie.)
Meanwhile, protests, hunger strikes, and boycotts continue worldwide. Protestors in Great Britain want the movie to display a "health warning."
The Greek Orthodox Church weighs in with a less-than-helpful statement:
"Christ never married. ... Our Lord as the perfect God and man, without sin, did not have human urges and passions"
As it happens, they mighthave reason to be afraid, as polls show that most of the folks who read the book do indeed believe Jesus fathered a child with Ms. Magdalen.: One spokesperson made a particularly telling comment:
"If Jesus Christ had a child and a wife, then Christianity would be destroyed"
Comments
Dan Brown must have hit the target pretty close to the bullseye to raise this kind of response from the Catholic church. Perhaps there’s more truth to Davinci than the Mother Church has been telling its followers…
Yes, they definitely protest too much.
If the “perfect man” is defined as having no human urges and passions I guess I don’t want to be looking for a perfect man, eh?
Very well said, Mary! My wife (who is sitting next to me now) agrees 100%.
LOL at Mary’s comment!
Seriously, these idiots are doing more to ruin their religion’s image and plant seeds of doubt in observers’ minds than Dan Brown ever could.
Oh! And did you see that the Tradition Family and Property people put the word clergywomen in quotes, but not clergymen? Why, oh why, would *anyone* think that orthodox Christianity was at all hostile to women…?
The organized church has lied continually and almost obsessively for centuries. Jesus the Rabbi would naturally have married and had children . Rabbi’s are supposed to be role models of expected behaviour for their times. Whether his wife was mary Magdalene or another woman is up for debate. But married and a father he surely was. I’ve believed that long before the book came out.
Implying the truth or even a lie can destroy Christianity, what the heck? That isn’t saying much for Christianity.
The Da Vinci Code is fiction. That means it’s a made up story. DUH.
And Harry Potter is a real magician and therefore a devil worshiper…so what does that make Sigfried and Roy who are also magicians?!!!??? Some people just look for things to feel offended about.
Let’s start a website for Christians that read and watched Da Vinci Code and don’t feel it was a threat.
Jesus was a Rabbi who fulfilled the law to the crossing of the T and the dotting of the I. I guess most overlooked the law that states a Rabbi MUST be married. Not a problem for true christianity, but will be most problematic for the Mythras worshippers.
The Bible says that Simoen picked up the cross and carried it for Jesus. Then the Bible says that they executed “he who bore the cross.” Of course the tomb was empty! They did not want Simoens body found or else Jesus would be hunted until found! In the mean time Jesus left town and Mary followed…
There is no evidence that Jesus was married and none that he wasn’t. One
scholar commented that marriage was
almost an inevitability in Jewish culture in Jesus’ lifetime, so he could
have had a wife. If Christianity could
be destroyed by Jesus being married,
it’s pretty weak stuff and probably not
true. I do believe in Jesus as Christ
and Savior, and his being married would
not hurt my faith one iota.
IT’S ONLY A B*OODY STORY! Do people not think all this fuss over what is essentially a big fib (yes, that’s what fiction is after all) is a little needless? Have we nothing better to talk about? Can’t we all just leave it alone? Please?
Can one lie destroy an entire religion? I think not . But if Dan Brown’s story has any truth to it then can we have been lied to numorous times? Now that could destroy a religion. If there is any lies why not come clean? Christianity needs a change for the 21st century otherwise it will become a dieing religion and a loss of power for the chruch. Change is good!
The Catholic Church has made such a fuss over the movie that it must be true…. Think about it: if Jesus having been married and having had a child/children is totally fake like the Church says it is, then what’s the big deal? It’s a lie… If it really is true however, I guess it would make sense to try and squash it by whatever means….;-)
Personally I don’t really care if it’s true or not; I’m not a Christian so it wouldn’t matter to me. I wouldn’t be surprised if the Church had covered something like this up, though, and it really needs to find something better to do with its time and to get over itself.
Yes… it makes no difference to most of us whether or not Jesus was married. In fact, a lot of us rather like the idea. There’s no reason why that should threaten Christianity. But as KissyKristy points out, the fact that various truths have been intentionally suppressed and twisted through the centuries should have an impact on how all Christians think about their religion.
The Roman Cathlic church has traditionally lacked a sense of perspective, hence the over-reaction. May they find balance.
I was just about to give up on my search. Until this blog popped out in front of mee. It`s the bombb!!