bunny1ohio said:
Really? I had never even heard of the book until I heard about it on the news how the church was up in arms over it and rebuking it as a fraud. But, then again I'm not so much into scanning through book reviews or new releases.... I had just not heard of it before that.... Although I did hear about Holy Blood Holy Grail.... I think that one is quite a bit older than the DaVinci Code though... which one did you mean?
I heard about it in many circles...library (natch), garden club, friends, people in the grocery store line, you name it.
I heard about Holy Blood Holy Grail in the mid-to-late 80s when the topic came up on a bbs I was on at the time. Despite the contents, I never heard anyone in the Church say anything about it. But then, it wasn't a runaway best seller either.
Again very true.... which is another one I don't understand.... I mean I know they were upset about them portraying Christ as a "normal" man with the whole family thing etc.... but why be upset when the movie says he turned those things down and the whole movie was basically the last temptation thrown to him by S-you-know-who and he refused it.... it made a LOT of sense to me.
Well, depending on how you read it, and in certain times and areas in Christianity, they've had an unusual view of sex, even within the bounds of marriage, like its unclean or something. "Conceived in sin" and all that. I pretty much ignored that all my life, since it didn't show up in the red letters in my Bible, which is what I gave first precedence.
As for TLTOC, there were all sorts of crazy rumours going around before the movie even came out, usually originating from people who never saw the film.
As it turns out, a whole gaggle of us from this bbs (Illuminet bbs in Atlanta) went out an saw the movie together. We had heathens, atheists, Christians (Prot and RCC both), Jews, and Baha'is show up to see the film. My husband, with his background in the RCC, was at least able to pick out the heavily Catholic (either Roman or Orthodox) symbology for those of us from other backgrounds, which was somewhat illuminating. I mean, I was raised a Prot, and "sacred heart of Jesus" was not something that ever came up in my church. But anyway, the general conclusion was that the things that were being complained about beforehand weren't even in the film, and that it was very "artsy fartsy" and would have bombed at the box office if certain Christian leaders hadn't brought it to everyone's attention with all the fuss.
The situtation of Da Vinci Code seems to be very different.
But then.... Christ as a normal mortal man makes a lot more sense to me than a divine one... but that's back to my personal beliefs, so I'll leave that alone
I view Christ as both a normal mortal man and something much much more than that. Unlike the rest of us, He was preexistent. He had his feet in the world of the divine in a way we don't and never will.
But I know that all of these things are beliefs and are never going to be something anyone can prove, so if others believe other things, they have their good reasons, and I just don't get my knickers in a twist over it, I guess.
