I have been reading a pretty cool blog lately about the Da Vinci Code (http://www.infuzemag.com/davinci/) from Infuze Magazine. A few quotes I really liked and felt like sharing for sake of discussion:
"But Jim made a great point that their line of reasoning -- Christians need to see the film so they can dialogue with non-believers about the inaccuracies of the book -- is faulty. It's like saying it's okay for a college student to take a pornography class or even watch porn just to be able to dialogue with porn addicts because porn is popular. Popular the way Da Vinci sold 40 million books worldwide."
"As Brown said in the conclusion to his speech, Christianity doesn't really have much to fear from "The Da Vinci Code." "A very wise British priest noted recently in the press, 'Christian theology has survived the writings of Galileo and the writings of Darwin; surely, it will survive the writings of some novelist from New Hampshire.'"
Most of the people I associate with will probably agree with the first quote, but not the second. I happen to agree with both. I do not believe that the movie will have that much of an impact on Christian "society". But, that does not mean I plan on seeing the movie. Count me out. I don't need to see the movie, or even read the book for that matter, to "know what I am talking about" like one person I heard say this past Sunday.
So, if you must see a movie on May 19, make it Over the Hedge.
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I keep telling myself to stick to non-controversial subject matter here, but I slipped.
The porn argument was not mine, so I can't take credit for it. But, I see and understand your point Cam. At the same time, I am torn between "understanding what I am talking about" and supporting a movie with beliefs wildly different from mine. Of course, before the movie came out, I could have cared less about the book. It says "A Novel" on the cover and is in the Fiction section of the bookstore. The paragraph entitled "Fact" on the first page does NOT say the storyline is fact -- only the rituals, societies, etc. I guess I have this preconceived notion that people that read books are educated enough to know the difference between fact and fiction while people that watch movies only are more likely to be confused. For example, the internet hype surrounding Blair Witch when it came out -- some people really believed it was fact.
Also, I believe that you can have knowledge of the content of the movie without seeing it -- especially in the internet age. All that rambling to say, I am on the fence on the whole subject. But, I have made a personal decision not to see the movie and I will stick by that. Just call me James Dobson. But, (yes another but), I do not think a church should come out and say boycott the whole movie (and our church did not did not say that). Sometimes I think if we as a body would just leave well enough alone, so much attention would not be drawn to a particular movie, book, style of music, etc. Just thinking out loud. Feel free to comment.
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