[Apologetics] Re: Da Vinci Code - Adventist Review

[Art Kelly]

Thanks, Stuart, for your very thoughtful analysis.

Keep in mind, this book has sold 40 million copies and
the movie will likely be seen by hundreds of millions
of others.

I've had Catholics who should know better recite to me
some of the "facts" in this book. I was appalled! 

Image how the book and movie will influence many
throughout the world!

Even as fiction, it is absurd. But Christians will be
making a BIG mistake to underestimate it.

Art 

--- "Stuart D. Gathman" <stuart at bmsi.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 7 May 2006, Art Kelly wrote:
> 
> > To successfully combat the evil of this book and
> > movie, Catholics should be fully prepared to speak
> out
> > against The DaVinci Code. 
> > 
> > It would be nice if we could count on the
> Protestants
> > to "put their shoulder to the wheel," but I
> suspect
> > that many of them are secretly pleased that the
> > Catholic Church is being attacked.
> 
> Art, I can't understand why everyone is wasting time
> reading the book.
> I enjoy a good yarn with a few bogus but plausible
> "facts" thrown
> in to make it feel historical (e.g. Jules Verne
> stories, Mark Twain's
> "A Conneticut Yankee"), or internet age versions
> like
> http://www.bigredhair.com/boilerplate/ "Boilerplate
> Man".
> (I even got to add my two cents!
> http://www.bigredhair.com/boilerplate/bp.lab.html )
> 
> Unless the author actually believes his own fiction.
>  Then you are
> dealing with mental illness.  The bogus "facts"
> listed in the DaVinci
> promotions would make for an interesting yarn,
> except for:
> 
> 1) the anti-Christian nature of the premise is a
> turn-off (although
>    I've enjoyed some Arian based mythology)
> 
> 2) the author and half the US can't seem separate
> the fact from the fiction
> 
> The book is basically a "fictionalized" version of
> "The Templar Revelation"
>
http://hiddenmysteries.com/xcart/product.php?productid=16314
> ("fictionalized" in quotes because the "documentary"
> is also fiction).
> 
> The Gnostic values are blatently apparent from the
> domain name...
> 
> > Before the blasphemous movie, "Dogma," was
> released, I
> > predicted that Protestants would hate it as much
> as
> > Catholics. Boy, was I wrong! I found numerous
> > fundamentalist websites that loved the fact that
> the
> > Church was being lampooned by this movie.
> 
> The AOG church my brother goes to did a "Living Last
> Supper" - where
> actors wear clothes and makeup form a tableau behind
> a table set to
> closely resemble the Leonardo DaVince painting.  The
> tableau is "frozen",
> but the spotlight picks out each actor in turn, who
> then faces the audience
> and tells their story.  This is an AOG tradition -
> like a protestant mystery
> play.
> 
> This year, the pastor started by showing an
> enlargement of the painting
> on the big screen, noting that Mary Magdalene was
> nowhere to be seen,
> and then reading excerpts from DaVinci extensive
> notes on the painting
> (DaVinci says the figure leaning on Peter is the
> Apostle John).
> 
> > I suspect that a lot of the same will hold true
> for
> > The DaVinci Code, i.e. Protestants will mildly
> protest
> > some parts of the movie, while hitting hard
> against
> > the Catholic Church as much as they can.
> 
> Lee Stroebel was on Dr Dobson talking about his book
> on the DaVinci code.
> The theme was debunking the "facts" on which the
> overt fiction was based.
> No "hits" against the Catholic Church.
> 
> > Catholics will have to answer The DaVinci Code
> > essentially alone. The movie and book are very
> serious
> > attacks that MUST be refuted!
> 
> I would be ROTFL - except that apparently a lot of
> people are very gullible...
> 
> -- 
> 	      Stuart D. Gathman <stuart at bmsi.com>
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