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JasonScyte...
...it is a page-turner, I'll give it that.
Have you read the Holy Blood and the Holy Grail? Now That's a good read, and explores the underlying ideas in much greater depth.
Thanks for the comment - and I'll look out for that bird!
D
posted by
DamonLeigh
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April 27, 2006
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Dylan...
...I didn't see the threat in that way.
The way I read it was that Opus dei itself is a powerful force in the markets. It has massive investments of it's own, and it also has many wealthy investors among its members. It may be that they have the power to instruct a massive sell-off of Sony stock, and that would be quite a stick to threaten them with!
Which leads into another interesting line of enquiry. If these people - and the Church generally - were secure in what they believe and what they teach, then surely a "challenge" to the orthodoxy put forth in a work of fiction and a Hollywood film would worry them not one jot. The reactions I see are, to me, signs of IN-security within the Christian church.
Cheers!
D
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DamonLeigh
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April 27, 2006
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Azur...
...I can azure you (sorry!) that you're really not missing much.
All the best
D
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DamonLeigh
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April 27, 2006
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Uncle Dave...
...never been to Lincoln cathedral. I'll have to check it out sometime.
Cheers!
D
posted by
DamonLeigh
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April 27, 2006
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I enjoyed the DaVinci Code because I like action,
but I read with a big chunk of salt between my cheek and gum. The reason I don't buy Creationism is because there are two accounts in Genesis that differ with each other. Great post! Keep up the good work and may be the Bird of Paradise fly down your chimney.
posted by
JasonScyte
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April 26, 2006
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What you call blackmail they will rightly call ...
the free market of ideas. They will discourage people from seeing the film (and perhaps discourage people from patronizing Sony in the future) and thus, presumably, Sony's stock could fall.
Not that this is likely to happen, but if it did, there would be nothing discreditable about the cause.
Now, if a secretive organization used its political influence in a deceptive manner to undermine a company's fortunes, then that would be problematic.
Interesting that you say The Da Vinci Code is a bad book. I consider a book good -- for practical purposes -- as long as it entertains me and holds my interest throughout, which this one surely did.
However, I agree with you if you mean that Brown is not a great writer. He employs many cliches and the like (such as the Mickey Mouse watch worn by the professor to remind him to stay "young at heart" -- a reference that appeared also in Angels & Demons -- is so annoyingly hackneyed that it almost disrupted my enjoyment of the book).
posted by
Dylan24
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April 25, 2006
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As is well documented in my posts I can't face reading it
Enough of the people that I discuss books with have told me about the
writing and that was enough to put me off. I read about the
Archbishop's speech and I think it is time that people were
reminded to put this story in perspective. Interesting about Opus Dei
posted by
Azur
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April 25, 2006
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Interesting stuff Damon.
I concur with you on the merit of TDC. Didn't know the Kelly rumour. Am appalled by the Creationist movement in schools, not for itself - that's fine - but for its dismissal of Darwinism and indeed of all other belief - that's how it seems to me on my limited knowledge of it. Your knowledge often seems to me far more wide-ranging than mine, so I'll take your factual content as gospel, so to speak.
I didn't know about the Archbishop's speech either. Wow.
Sadly though, I will go see the film. I saw many of the scenes as a future film and that scene where the code thing flies up and descends - if they haven't done it the way it's in my head, then I'll be disappointed.
It'll be nice to see shots of Lincoln Cathedral too. I love the place, Steep Hill et al.
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_dave_says_ack_
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April 25, 2006
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