Serves 'em right. The Diocese of Rome banned Ron Howard from filming Angels and Demons, the prequel to Dan Brown's DaVinci Code, in two key Roman churches. I read the book because it sounded innocuous, even favorable toward the church, but turned out to be the same anti-Catholic drivel (power-hungry Vatican official threatens to destroy the world). Thank goodness I only borrowed it from the library.
Me thinketh the Catholic Church protesteth too much! Which tells me there is at least a shred of truth to the DaVinci Code.
Methinks you are looking for a reason to believe. It's not surprising that the Catholic Church would not want to cooperate with someone who has consistently painted them in the past in an extremely negative light and is making a movie to do the same. That's just simple common sense, has nothing to do with the veracity of past claims.
Caleb, this only proves my point that people are all too willing to believe the DaVinci Code because it tickles itching ears and gives them a cudgel with which to beat the church. You may recognize it as fiction, but plenty of people want to believe it's fact.
I like how you try to reason with the senseless Eric. It is an amusing and silly act yet tainted with heroism.
"I like how you try to reason with the senseless Eric"
I hope there is an implicit comma in there between "senseless" and "Eric".
Most certainly Eric, there is.
People will believe anything and everything - they are hungry.
WRT a film screening in these Catholic churches - why is this news? If Ron Howard wanted to screen any of his films in our church, the answer would be no even if they made no swipes at our church or faith.
I wish the argument were less over his film and giving him publicity and merely stated "a church is not a film theater."
Oh, one more thing.
I was in NYC this weekend with some intelligent, Christian people. We went to the Statue of Liberty. They claimed there were 3 of them and I gasped in horror. They believe this because it was in National Treasure 3. They all but refused to believe me even while I protested, "there were a lot of things in that movie that weren't true" they would respond "but a lot of things were!"
The point being, National Treasure, Da Vinci - if a movie doesn't have a basis in fact to make it believable, then it isn't a good movie. We shouldn't ban National Treasure because people have misguided beliefs about our founding fathers, etc.