Why the hell can't people accept it? The Da Vinci Code is FICTION!!!!

[YellowRubberDuckie]

http://www.thisislondon.com/til/jsp/modules/Article/print.jsp?itemId=22582687
Just gotta say...I love Tom Hanks.
Duckie

[KitchenWitch]

1. I hate the attitude that just because THEY do not agree

with something, that no one else should be exposed to it. Censorship is a terrible thing.

That being said, I enjoyed The DaVinci Code

[kwassa]

2. Says who?

I think it is a conspiracy.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

3. Um...The Author says his work was fiction.

:shrug:

[kwassa]

7. He might be lying.

you never know these days.

[ghostsofgiants]

33. Dan Brown is totally a reptilian Illuminati type...

Hell-bent on world domination trhough the downfall of the Catholic Church, via the use of fiction that's not really iction.

[kwassa]

34. Does he work for the Trilateral Commission ? Is he a Mason?

[kay1864]

47. Worse yet, was he a JAMES Mason?

*snort*

[barb162]

66. hey, I like James Mason. Great actor

[texas1928]

4. It makes just a little to much sense.

We know he is working for the devil...


He wants us to beleive things that are not true...*TWITCH* *TWITCH*


He is trying to undermine our god... er... I mean... government... er no... god... *TWITCH* *TWITCH*


:tinfoilhat::freak::tinfoilhat:

[nytemare]

5. The same reason they couldn't accept "Last Temptation of Christ" was

fiction. That was really a pretty good film. I look forward to seeing Da Vinci Code.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

6. I loved the Last Temptation of Christ.

Actually made me think and made my faith stronger. Stupid idiots.
Duckie

[liberalpress]

17. Think! Think?

Your name has turned in to The Department of Homeland Security for violation of the unwritten rule against thinking. Thinking ought to be illegal, because it makes the administration feel "uncomfortable" and when the newly stacked Supreme Court allows our glorious leader to serve his third fourth and fifth terms, with the help of GOD we will finally make thinking illegal. Praise Bush!

[ornotna]

8. I can't hear you

[Incitatus]

9. People still support Bush, people believe in Scientology,

There are some people who will believe anything.

[Skittles]

11. how about virgin births and rising from the dead?

you are too correct

[Timebound]

10. Fiction, eh?

Maybe so, but think about it, which is more plausiable (in the words of a daily show):

That Jesus was born by immaculate conception, lived a pure sinless life, died and was magically resurrected three days later and then ascended to heaven.

OR

That he was just a guy (albeit an unusual one) who took a wife, and the Catholic Church covered it up and made him the center of their religion. (The church WAS very powerful in the Middle Ages)


I'm not saying it is or isn't fiction, but still. Heh. ^_^

[jmowreader]

16. You forgot the third alternative

Jesus as Paul Bunyan.

A hero who didn't really exist except in legends.

I chose Paul Bunyan because I come from the Northwest and he's who we have.

Paul Bunyan was so large it took 17 storks to deliver him. Paul Bunyan's footsteps created the 10,000 lakes in Minnesota. He created the Grand Canyon by dragging his axe behind him, and Mount Hood by piling rocks on his campfire.

Really, is this so much different from the story of Jesus? He was born as a virgin. He went all over the place healing lepers and feeding hungry people. And he came back from the dead. Being that all the books that went into the Bible were written hundreds of years after the events were supposed to have taken place, it's very possible that the story of the loaves and fishes started out as "a group of people who were on some kind of expedition met a group of hungry people with one fish between them and shared their own provisions with the hungry" turned into "this guy with a long beard came to town and created food out of thin air."

Both stories would teach some good lessons. The first version would actually be better--Jesus probably wouldn't have known where to restock his supplies in the area of the incident, so giving all of their food to people they never met before and wouldn't see again shows that Jesus was willing to sacrifice for the good of strangers. The second incident? "Hey, this guy Jesus can pull things out of thin air so you better do what I say he says."

Well...actually there IS a difference between Paul Bunyan and Jesus: no one ever started a war over Paul Bunyan.

[JVS]

12. I saw the author on TV, and he bought into the story he was telling

Not the story of the individual character, but the story of the coverup thing.

What's funny is that the guy who wrote the book that he cribbed the information on the coverup thing is less certain of the coverup than the author of DVC was when interviewed.

[Bridget Burke]

35. I enjoyed Holy Blood, Holy Grail.

Billed as non-fiction, I didn't really think it was "true."

But it was an elegant, erudite "what if" tying together some truly interesting parts of history in an unlikely knot. The surviving authors of HBHG now realize that the Priory of Sion was a hoax--or a Surrealist joke.

[Mutley]

13. Maybe it's not as much of a fiction story as we think it is.

:P

[Left Is Write]

31. Well, see that's the thing. The story circulating that the Priory of Sion

is a hoax is actually a hoax itself, perpetrated by the Priory of Sion so that people will THINK there is no Priory of Sion even though there really is.

:P

[Mutley]

42. I'm... dizzy.

:crazy:

:P

[kay1864]

48. Left Is Write, you've

cracked the REAL Code!!

This is HUGH!!


How DID you get to be so clever :P

[tjdee]

14. Like Claus Von Bulow, I found Dan Brown's writing to be disgusting.

But the story is exciting, the twists are cool, etc. etc.

I don't think God is worried about a novel--you'd think that Christians (of which I'm one) would be happy about the chance to talk about Jesus.

This rash of "Duh-Vinci Code" classes at churches is the dumbest thing I've ever heard of. My church is having one, and I'm going just to be the voice of reason. I mean, it's a flippin' flappin' novel! Jesus!

[BlueStorm]

60. Biggest church here in my hometown has a seminar

called "Cracking the DaVinci Code"

Blue

[tjwmason]

15. I agree.

It is fiction - however plenty of people do seem to be taking the ideas presented in it seriously (for reasons best known to themselves).

The other thing that is fiction is the list of "facts" which Brown puts at the beginning of the book. Thus not only is it fiction, it's fiction based on fictions which are claimed as facts.

If all of the readers of the da Vinci code realised it was pure fiction, there would have been no response to it.

[peekaloo]

18. Hush you! If I weren't busy rounding up two of each animal species

for my Ark I'd give you a good talkin' to!

[LostinVA]

19. I have three of each species... just in case

And I have a spaceship, not an ark.

[peekaloo]

21. Hmmmm......sounds like there's some SCIENCE involved!

I'll bet you're hoarding some of those human/animal hybrids too!

[LostinVA]

22. One of them is a scion of Jesus and the Magdalene's

cat, Fluffy ben Tiger.

[peekaloo]

24. Oh, one of those Toyota hybrids.

:P

[allalone]

64. could you not bring cockroachs and fleas this time?

[DS1]

20. Not only that, but the entire premise is moronic

If something's so secret that only a few people can know, and never tell anyone, wouldn't it be an advantage to have them killed off?

[kay1864]

23. Not following you there

That's what the monk is doing in the first chapter.

[Bridget Burke]

36. The monk who belongs to Opus Dei....

A 20th century organization founded to hide an ancient secret?

[kay1864]

38. I don't think that's quite right **SPOILER**

Per the book, the (fictional) "ancient" group Priory of Sion was founded to hide the ancient secret, not Opus Dei. But the Opus Dei monk was sent to kill off those who kept the secret.

FWIW, Opus Dei is a real group (20th century, as you mention), but the Priory of Sion is not.

[Bridget Burke]

43. OK. The Opus Dei monk was a "tool" of the Priory of Sion.

However, Opus Dei consists of lay people & "secular" priests. Secular priests are NOT monks.

[kay1864]

45. I don't think that's right at all

The Opus Dei monk was *killing off* the Priory of Sion, under the direction of the Teacher. Why, I'm not sure, the Teacher's motivation gets convoluted by the end. But the Priory of Sion was definitely not killing itself off.

But you're correct that the term "monk" was used incorrectly in the novel.

[Bridget Burke]

46. OK.

I've already planned to finally READ the thing. But I don't mind spoilers, at all.

For instance--have you heard anything about next week's "Lost"?

[kay1864]

49. Well, shoot

I did say **SPOILERS** though. I thought you were trying to clarify the plot.

However, you can still enjoy the book. I've only spoiled about the first three chapters.

[bikebloke]

25. A tool.

The Dominionists are using it to lure the eejits in. Probably easier than buying in bulk their own Left Behind series. It's not that good a popcorn read. Dan Brown's novels are forgetable as soon as you're done.

The Last Templar by Raymond Khoury was a better popcorn read on the same subject. Still they're both fiction. I'm beginning to wonder if the obsession with entertainment has blurred the line between reality and fiction for a lot of folk.

[RubyDuby in GA]

26. Because then they might have to accept that Harry Potter is too:

http://www.ajc.com/news/content/metro/gwinnett/stories/0512gwxpotter.html

Gwinnett schools to keep Harry Potter

By LAURA DIAMOND
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Published on: 05/11/06

Harry Potter won't be expelled from Gwinnett County's public schools.

The Gwinnett County school board voted unanimously Thursday to keep the popular book series about a boy wizard in the district's school libraries.

A Loganville mother asked the board of the state's largest school district to ban the books, which she said promotes and glorifies witchcraft. But school board members said the books have merit and have improved students' reading skills.

Board member Carole Boyce said her family enjoys reading the books.

[Orsino]

27. Call it fiction if you want, but I'll never forgive Hanks...

...for leaving Meg Ryan.

[Left Is Write]

29. I thought you were going to say you'd never forgive him...

for that hairstyle.

[Left Is Write]

28. It is? I was under the impression I was reading a textbook.

:silly:

[2bfree]

30. I can't wait for the movie to open!

I really enjoyed the book. :)

[ComerPerro]

32. I am a whore. I finally bought the DaVinci code, in paperbook

[Bridget Burke]

37. I'll check out Half Price Books...

For the paperback edition. I'll bet I've heard enough about the plot.

But I need to see if what they say about Dan Brown's prose style is true. Luckily, I read quickly.

[kay1864]

40. What do "they" say about his prose style?

I found it a fast read, not cumbersome at all. Enjoyable thriller.

[Left Is Write]

57. I did too.

It was written better than quite a few books of that genre.

[Left Is Write]

44. I did too.

That's what took me so long to read it - I was waiting for the paperback. I generally do my fluff reading in the bathtub. That's hard to do with hardback books.

[kay1864]

50. Well then, you need one of these!

:P

[Left Is Write]

56. Hey! That's cool!

[YellowRubberDuckie]

58. I'll probably buy it at target soon...

I like the way the paperback version they are using. Stays open on it's own. Sounds weird, but the pocket books are a little hard to hold sometimes....
Duckie

[redqueen]

39. I heard this recently...

When Star Wars came out, you didn't see scientists losing their minds screaming, "BUT LIGHT SABERS AREN'T REAL! THEY'RE NOT REAL! THERE ARE NO LIGHT SABERS!"

:rofl:

[Bridget Burke]

41. Two kinds of people believe the Da Vinci Code is true:

(1) Religious folk who are highly insulted by the "sacrilege." A few Catholics (a very few) & some of those other "Christians" who've made a career out of being offended.

(2) Those fearsome folk who read One Book Per Year. And then insist on recounting every plot detail at every opportunity.

They all need to read some myth, legend, comparative religion & psychology to broaden their minds. Joseph Campbell, anyone?

[kay1864]

51. What about (3) People like me who don't know squat about religious history

After all, the book is self-consistent, so if you don't know any better, it's totally plausible.

[TrogL]

52. It's so closely based upon a book claiming to be fact....

...that the authors sued (and should have won).

[kay1864]

53. Well the judge disagrees with you

I'm glad Dan Brown won. Sleazy attempt to extort money from the publisher and/or the movie producers, IMHO.

[applegrove]

54. And academic porn at that. Started out interesting re: thesis that

christianity suppressed the female and turned into pulp fiction.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

59. It was the people who wrote the bible who suppressed the female...

Because they were men and wanted to feel more manly. :shrug:
Duckie

[Crazy Dave]

55. Hell yeah it's fiction!

Everybody should know Scientology is the real deal.

[bridgit]

61. having read 'the thing', i thought Hanks as Langdon was an...

interesting piece of casting :shrug: but then i thought, "if Tom Hanks can fire the prime motor and reposition Apollo 13 to a dancing moon; then he play Langdon." :thumbsup:

:-)

[YellowRubberDuckie]

62. I think Tom Hanks can play ANYTHING.

[allalone]

63. I'm starting to lose my voice

shouting IT'S FICTION!!!!

[quiet.american]

65. And badly-written fiction at that. Total hack. n/t

[barb162]

67. some people don't have brains