Chill, it's just a movie
The Vatican is calling for a boycott of the Da Vinci code flick. LHG really doesn't understand the uproar. The book is fiction, the movie is just a movie. Get over it. Maybe the staff here is just out of touch. What do you think?
posted by elivo at 1:30 PM
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So, they really are trying to boycott the movie?! I think I need to get my head out of the sand, but honestly are there not more important things for the Vatican to be worrying about. I don't know, but are Catholics out there reading the book and suddenly realizing that the Catholic Church seems a little harsh or whatever and then denouncing Catholicism(I hope not). I feel that the Catholic Church has lost faith in their own congregation of followers. Why do they need to dictate to them what should and shouldn't be read and seen or send out a call to boycott. I would hope that Catholics are aware enough of their own religon to realize this is just fiction and not get offended, and that the world is full of idiots (myself included)that are attracted to the whole controversy and will probably go and see the movie because of it. Mr. Amato I think, should realize that most fiction that uses historical facts or people are not going to adhere to the truth exactly, but use it in the most effective way they want to sell lots of books. Dan Brown wrote a book that just made some people question an idea, and made him alot of money. They should take it for what it is a book. Though, it would be kind of funny if there was a mass coversion to, say Islam because at least with Islam there is only one God and not that whole Holy Trinity deal, and all just because of this book....Wow I just rambled pointlessly, but you asked what did you think. Heh. If you got this far without having the urge to strangle me for my um rambling, congrats. Very cool site by the way!^_^'
So the Catholic Church is patronizing its faithful by dictating that they ought not to see a movie which postulates that Jesus procreated? Not really a shocker, I think, since the Catholic Church always acts in loco parentis. Rather than simply reminding its faithful that The Da Vinci Code is a work of fiction and thrives on ideas extraneous to the Gospels, the Church behaves like an overbearing parent and seems to think that the very exposure to notions outside of church doctrine is harmful, and that Catholics do not have the capacity to distinguish basic notions of their faith from works of fiction. In light of the internal problems that ail the Catholic Church - the shortage of priests, the scandalous and half-hearted response the priests who sexually abused children - and the external problems - rampant poverty, health crises, and wars in many countries - one would think that the Catholic church had bigger fish to fry that to worry about a movie based on a work of fiction! However, this does not seem to be the case. How sad!!!
It's a bad sign when a church can't trust its members to make their own choices. Rather, a church should provide a solid foundation so that members may make decisions on their own, in situations where they are not sheltered by the institution.
Does this remind anyone else of how the church kept the Bible out of laymen's hands to keep control before the Reformation?
Well I for one don't think there needs to be a ban called upon the movie. It was a decent work of fiction and now they have just put it onto the big screen. However the media has taken it a bit far (I've seen the tv specials myself)which like to state that the book is not a work of fiction and go out of their way trying to prove it. So I can see where the Catholic church may have some concerns about the movie, but it's no reason to ban the congregation from seeing it.
Yes, there are people who take their works of fiction too seriously and some even within the Catholic church which might take the book and movie as the literal truth, however...are these the type of people you want following your religion? Those who so easily jump ship? And to be honest the best way to a religion is a tumultuous path, arriving more solid in your faith after parting from it for whatever reason.
karina, i agree. while the book is fiction, it is true that there are other non-canonical gospels that provide a different picture of jesus. faith can't be based upon blinders, a mature faith is one that is aware - even familiar - with these gospels and yet is able to still hold its own.
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