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Thanks for stopping by, Black Pearl.
Yeah, I'm thinking I won't be going to see that movie, but we'll see. I really don't feel like contributing to Dan Brown's already seriously overflowing coffers . . . .
posted by
JanesOpinion
on May 24, 2006 at 6:16 PM
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Hi Jane,
I was just browsing my older blogs and noticed that you had left a comment on my Easter blog. I was looking for your writings that you talked about, but happened upon this post first, and I wanted to comment. Thanks for more insight on the story and the book. I've heard/read some really so-so reviews about the movie. Sounds like it may be a dud after all. I'll probably wait for the DVD just to see about all the hype. Thanks. :)
posted by
BlackPearl1
on May 23, 2006 at 8:03 PM
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Thank you, Lensman, for your comments.
Although I'd have to say that, having now read several of your blogs, I believe you'd have to be stone cold passed out drunk to write something as poorly written as some of those Gnostic gospels. In fact, judging from the caliber of your writing, I would think you would be hard pressed to come up with anything that dreadful.
Happy day!
Hope the new job is working out well for you!!
posted by
JanesOpinion
on May 3, 2006 at 7:13 PM
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JanesOpinion
Great post. Interesting that those who believe the contents of The Da Vinci Code are sometimes the same ones who ridicule Christians for believing the contents of the Bible. Some people out there believe everything they read in the National Enquirer and others believe The Blair Witch Project was real. Tom Cruise believes we were created by a spaceman. I think the reaction of some to The Da Vinci Code is another example of this modern tendency to latch onto anything slick marketers can throw our way. And hasn't Brown himself admitted that it was all a load of horsewallop? I guess such fads will come and go, but the Bible has withstood the test of time and outlived many a doubter.
I liked this. How true it is...."We do not wish to be held accountable to a higher power, to believe that there is a God who is over all things, Who loves us, Who died for us. Instead, we’d rather be our own little gods."
Thanks for enlightening me, also, about those Gnostic gospels. Hilarious....They sound like something I tried to write after my first bottle of wine. 
posted by
Lensman
on May 2, 2006 at 11:55 PM
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the divinity of Christ
was hotly debated in the centuries before Nicea.
just like whether Passover of Easter should be observed.
That majority (not a large one) that won at those times used excommunication and other "means of persuasion" to bring the dissenters in line on each of these occasions and others, so that, by the time of the Council of Nicea, there weren't that many.
posted by
Xeno-x
on April 5, 2006 at 8:54 AM
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Taps, how interesting. I think you should write a blog
about your travels . . . .
Gorgeous photo!!!!
posted by
JanesOpinion
on April 4, 2006 at 6:21 PM
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JanesOpinion
I think that reading that particular book right before I made my very first trip to those places did sharpen my awareness and observations and made it a lot of fun. I found myself looking for minutia as well as watching and listening to people in those places. The stained glass Rose Windows, ornately crafted spires, Gargoyles, ogee archways, ribbed vaults and the wondrous flying buttresses were actually more fun with the feeling of some secret code and a fanatical killer involved. At St. Sulpice they were very touchy and on the defensive at tourists asking to se the "Rose Line" denying that there was such a thing as all the while a crowd was gathered around the Meridian taking "not-allowed" photos. During my week in Valdelavilla (Spain), I was included in several conversation of young men who were schooled by the Opus Dei and were surprised that I knew who they were and shared "not very cool" stuff about their school days.
posted by
TAPS.
on April 3, 2006 at 9:08 PM
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Taps, and did it help give you perspective for your trip?
I guess there are many people who have fallen for his thesis hook line and sinker. But why am I NOT surprised that it did not affect your faith? Rock solid and solid gold -- that's what you are!
posted by
JanesOpinion
on April 2, 2006 at 2:52 PM
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MPO -- I think you're right.
People fall for this stuff and believe it to be 100% accurate.
Doesn't speak well for humanity, eh?
posted by
JanesOpinion
on April 2, 2006 at 2:50 PM
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JanesOpinion
I read this book at the time that I was planning a trip to Spain, France, Italy. I was curious as to Brown's discription of places that I would be visiting on my trip. I must admit that I read it as totally fiction and before most of the controversy surfaced. I saw it as the work of a person with a vivid imagination and it, in no way, changed one iota of my beliefs in Jesus as given to us in The Holy Bible. I can see, though, how it could confuse people and cause them to question what they have believed.
posted by
TAPS.
on April 2, 2006 at 2:12 PM
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I guess it's like James Thurber said:
"You can fool too many of the people too much of the time."
posted by
Mademoiselle
on April 2, 2006 at 1:41 PM
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