Why is it that there is so much uproar about how The Da Vinci Code needs to be taken as a work of fiction? When I saw it, there was no "Based on Actual Events" in the opening credits or in any of the advertisements. It said, "Based on the novel by Dan Brown."
So why is it that this movie is contested? I have my theory. It's not a popular one, but I'll share it anyway. It's important to fundie Christians to have the movie categorized as fiction so the two fictions won't mix together: Dan Brown's fiction and the Bible's fiction. The best part about the whole thing is there is actually a lot of scholarly support for some of the things in The Da Vinci Code. I just wish the idea of the sacred feminine was explored more. I could have done a little more with Isis/Horus vs. Mary/Jesus.
All the movie does is explore some other view of Jesus. If fundy Christians get so upset about alternative views of the same Jesus, how would they react to a movie that presents the more likely option: that the historical Jesus never existed?
I could write a whole novel, not about how the Greatest Story Ever Told involved a cover-up, but about how it's a complete lie. How's that for a book-burner?
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How could you PROVE that the "greatest story ever told" is a lie? Seriously curious here.....
I’m going to pull out a classic skeptic’s card here: Occam’s Razer. The reasonable and more likely outlook on the Jesus story is that it’s hyped-up fiction about a real man, or made-up entirely. Something similar to the Jesus phenomenon happened with Archbishop Oscar Romero in El Salvador (in regards to deifying a normal human man). People make-up their own truth because they need something to cling to. Show me a writing contemporary of Jesus’s time that describes him and what he did, and I’ll revise my opinion. Otherwise, it's reasonable for me to dismiss an outlandish story as hearsay, rumor, exaggeration, and folklore.
The Greatest Story Ever Told isn’t even an original. Take a look at Dionysus and Horus.
All the proof in the world doesn't matter to an ardent theist. I have a favorite quote about this: "You can't reason someone out of a view they didn't reason themselves into in the first place."
I do know you're from Tucson, and I'd appreciate it if you'd identify yourself.
... your awesome
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