"THE DA VINCI CODE" IS A BUST

I saw "The Da Vinci Code" movie with Bridget and my mom on Saturday.  The wife and I probably wouldn't have bothered to go to it except that my mom wanted to see it.  I never read the book, but of course I would've had to have been on Mars for the past few years to not know what it was about.  But even if I hadn't a clue, the movie still would've have had next to no suspense in it.  Therefore, as great cinema entertainment, "The Da Vinci Code" is a bust.

Of course, the real problem with the film is that it is morally offensive to Christians.  No question of that.  Yet, "The Da Vinci Code" is also bust as far as being a threat to true faith.  Besides being both boring and overblown, its plot device that the Catholic Church (or at least a rogue element of it) is engaged in a campaign of murder and theft to destroy evidence that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were married and had a child is predicated on historical howlers and patent nonsense.  Morally offensive indeed, but about as titillating as a porn flick in which everybody keeps their clothes on.

Comments

[Sunking]

Well, most Christians know othing about history in general OR the history of the Christian church.

The more you know, the less things look like 'historical howlers' and patent nonsense.

True, TDC is a book of fiction and the movie is based on a novel, but if you dig into even some of the underlying history of things , your eyes will be opened.
What you've been told is not necessarily the 'truth'.

No, I haven't seen the movie yet. Maybe this Sunday.

Best Wishes.
SK

[Bill]

Hi, Sun King.

Thanks for your remarks. You didn't mention anything specific that might not be a "howler", so I'll respond generally.

I have been told a great many things over the years about Christianity, Catholicism, and the Church by believers, non-believers, and even those who are militantly anti-Christian. So, I think you can understand how my beliefs would be a contradictory hash if I had uncritically accepted everything I have been told as the truth.

Instead I relied upon my personal experience of what I know to be true to judge the reliability of other sources of information. At the end of the day, I had to have the confidence to decide for myself what was true, what was not, and what was provisional. Only by doing that, following the facts, did I go from being a non-believer to an orthodox Catholic.

It is for this reason, the fact that I found out for myself what was true, I was able to state without doubt that the historical "facts" of the DVC movie were patent nonsense.

Regards, Bill