“Boycott Da Vinci Code film”: top Vatican official
The Vatican stepped up its offensive against “The Da Vinci Code” on Friday when a top official close to Pope Benedict blasted the book as full of anti-Christian lies and urged Catholics to boycott the film.
The latest broadside came from Archbishop Angelo Amato, the number two official in the Vatican doctrinal office which was headed by Pope Benedict until his election last year.
Amato, addressing a Catholic conference in Rome, called the book “stridently anti-Christian .. full of calumnies, offences and historical and theological errors regarding Jesus, the Gospels and the Church.”
He added: “I hope that you all will boycott the film.”
My feeling on it is this: it’s a fictional story. It was marketed as a fictional story. It appears on the best seller lists as a FICTIONAL story.
It would be one thing if the author was hawking this book around as a true documentary of actual events. Dan Brown is no Michel Moore – he doesn’t take the ideas from his imagination and try and sell them as fact and truth, ala Bowling for Columbine.
I do try to understand the outrage of this book. I read it and enjoyed it. It read like a mystery thriller that I could not put down and am looking foward to seeing the movie – although, as with most books – I’m sure the movie won’t be as good as the book.
I would think, however, that most thinking human beings can separate the fact that this book is a fictional account of one authors imagination – - and not a historical accounting of the life and times of Jesus Christ.
I won’t be boycotting it – - will you?
why should people care about some nut case in the Vatican, if people can’t understand its a “MOVIE” Its A Book, that person must be really stupid, and in great need of help, Like the boys in the Vatican need help to get off the little boys.:twisted:
Oh yes! why do you love a little brown Jewish guy of 2000 years, THIS GUY SAID NOTHING THAT MANY HAD BEEN SAYING FOR OVER 1000 YEARS, isn’t it time to see him for what he was?
A racist for his race of people? muslims jews all the same thing of evil.
Lisa, I couldn’t agree with you more. I plan to see it.
I wouldn’t spend the money to see it anyway because I simply don’t care.
Boycotts of movies or music usually backfire and create unintended publicity.
It’s like the language warning labels on CD’s; it just becomes more appealing.
SF Liberal will probably check this movie out, if only to see The Mullet.
Not boycotting; was never planning on seeing it.
Yes boycotts often have unintended consequences. Kind of like phony, contrived scandals made up to try to smear political opponents. Like the Democrites have been so desperately trying to do with Bush for years, even making up things when they needed something to try to get him. All they have done is to make themselves look disgraceful.
When all the time Bush has been doing enough on his own to make himself look bad, like his unpopular “guest worker/amnesty/aw shucks you can’t do anything about 12 million illegals” immigration position.
4. once again..the rotation of the earth has just reversed itself and I’m in 100% agreement with SF.
If you want to boycott / blackout a movie or something…SHUT UP!! the more you carp about it..the more people who didn’t even give a F will want to check it out.
Mullet = Heavenly HERE
Dear Sirs/Madam,
Sub: secret code that reveals ancient mysteries about God.
“Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.”- Pablo Picasso quotes
The novel, and upcoming movie, are about a secret code that reveals ancient mysteries about Jesus Christ.
The secret code or word is not only in La davincy’s work but also in all worldwide scriptures including Bible even in New Testament. Hiding the fact about God is not a conspiracy, but it is a purposeful one. Why?
This was intentionally done by ancient scholars or writers. Becuase the true knowledge of God and life is not a pleasant thing. “You never see God and mommon” as in Bible, it is against the worldly life, and so it will spoil everything in our society, which is based upon the socio economic cultural life. So the ancient scholars gave preference to culture, and not technology.
Before the modern period, all scholars like Jews, Christians, Hindus and Muslims are enjoyed highly allegorical interpretations of scripture. The word of God was used for some other purpose and it could not be attached to single interpretation.
If the scriptures are not historically and scientifically correct, they cannot be true and it will not accept by the future generation.
We say, ‘Hippocrates is the father of Medicine’. If one who do not know the real details of medicine, and his role in it, then he can’t understand the real meaning of the above word. He will ask just as that who is the mother of Medicine, and son and daughter of Medicine. In the same way, the people, those who do not know the real knowledge of life and God and universe in overall, will understand the scriptural words.
‘Jesus was married and had children’ is the present controversy. We should consider and compare this with the above example. If it is true, true and if it is false, false. Both cases are correct. Because it is the way of understanding the scholars words or paintings. First we should accept it and then come to a conclusion after proper discussion and evidences.
Anyhow, here I have given one more details about how to understand the ancient writings.
Just read it. And if you can get any idea about this words, then you can understand everything in the universe.
Universe has three things that is He, She and It. There is no He without She. There no She without He.Everything in the universe is the product of He and She. If God is He, He must have got She. Without She, He can’t do anything. If God is She, She must have He. Becsuse God is working or acting and continueously producing His products. He cannot stop His work. Star, Sun and other planets and all in the universe are His products (It). God is Love. Love is God. God is Verb. God is action. Love is His nature. He or She must have to work. Everything in the universe is He and She. No She without He and no He without She. Macrocosm is He and She and It. Microcom is he and she and it. Atom is he and She. So atom works. We are he and she. If we are not he and she, then we can’t produce it (children). Origin life is DNA. It is too he and she. They can’t produce individually anything. The secret of Evolution is in He and She. God is He and She. Universe is He and She. In earth everything is He and She. In space everything is He and She. Light energy is He in the universe and Dark energy is She of the universe. stars, Suns are the product of that She and He. Love between the He and She is the secret of life and the whole of universe.
Where is no love, there is no life.
As in the earth, so as in the space.
We work as how God works. So we are the image of the God. What God guides us, just we follow. We cannot work anyhting ourselves. If he, who said that he has no she, he is a liar. Because she is in him. He loves her. So he is living. His living is in his love with her. If she said that she has no he, then she is also a liar. Because he is in her. She can’t live without him. No science without the He and She. Law of gravitation is He and She. Quantum theory is He and She. Unified theory of gravitation and quantum theory, is He and She. God is He and She. So He or She loves. God has children. We all are the children of God. We are all in One. The one is He and She.
“God, to me, it seems, is a verb, not a noun, proper or improper.”- Richard Buckminster Fuller
Well, if you are interested, please try to understand the above words.
“If you can not convince them, confuse them.”. This is the greatest mantra for the ancient scholars. Confusing is nothing but questions of question. The right answer is in right question.
“The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions.”- John A. Simone.
Here, I give you some important words from Bible to understand the God and His work or ‘How He works’. If you can understand the actual meaning of the following words, then you need not understand anything in the world. It will answer all the questions, whether it is from science or religious, even from general public.
These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs; but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall show you plainly of the Father.(John 16:25)
( – Yes, the time has come to know the Truth or true knowledge of God, life and everything.)
I am the light of the world.
Jesus answered and said unto them, Though I bear record of myself, yet my record is true: for I know whence I came, and whither I go; but ye cannot tell whence I come, and whither I go. (John 8:14)
( -We cannot understand our scriptures if we read them in an exclusively literal sense..)
I and my Father are one. . (John 10:30)
Jesus answered them, Many good works have I showed you from my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?
Jesus answered and said unto them, I have done one work, and ye all marvel. . (John 7:21)
(It means that I am working as my creator works. That is both are one and the same and he insisted that you need not believe God but his work.)
Then said they unto him, Where is thy Father? Jesus answered, ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also. . (John 8:19)
Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot hear my word. . (John 8:43)
“And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.â€
I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world; again, I leave the world, and go to the Father. (John 16:28)
His disciples said unto him, Lo, now speakest thou plainly, and speakest no proverb.(John 16:29)
Now are we sure that thou knowest all things, and needest not that any man should ask thee; by this we believe that thou camest forth from the god. ( John 16:30)
Jesus answered them, Do ye now believe? (John 16:31).
If we can understand the real meaning of the above words, then we can get all the required answers to the questions that related to life, God, Univese and Everything. But if you can’t understand it, then our life is totally waste.
Many scholars, who have had the real knowledge of God and nature, gave many hints to understand the Truth.
“You can bend it and twist it… You can misuse and abuse it… But even God cannot change the Truth.”- Michael Levy quotes.
“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.”
– Galileo Galilei quotes
“You never find yourself until you face the truth”- Pearl Bailey quotes.
The true knowledge of life, universe and everything is very simple one. That is everything in the universe as whole and part (macrocosm and microcosm) of it, is working under a simple and single law. This is the law of laws and science of sciences. Nothing can deviate from this law. So it is called as ‘Truth’. No science or religious can reject this law.
What is Science? Will it give the required answers to the following questions?
“Why is the world the way it is? Where does it all come from? Where do we come from?” “Where are we going to? How did our Earth and our Solar System evolve?
Where are we in the Universe? Where are we going? Where did life come from, and are we alone? Who are we? Where are we going to? What is the purpose of it all?
What is religion? Can we get clear answers to all questions related to our life? and God? Is there a God? If so, how can we approach him? What is good and what is evil? What is knowledge? What is truth? What is consciousness? Can we do anything ourselves?
How should we act? How can we be happy? Why cannot we live forever? What is the meaning of life?
The Truth is the one and only answer to all questions reated to science and religion.
“One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike – and yet it is the most precious thing we have.” – Albert Einstein.
If you are interested to know further details, please contact me.
Thanking you,
Yours truly.
Chenbagam pillai
India.