Vatican bans Dan Brown film Angels & Demons from Rome churches

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peregrinus_WA said:
Good. Make it as hard as possible for them.
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If suspect this movie will be as bad as the Davinci code . The problems with the plot listed in the story left out the biggest hoot-a guy jumping out of heicopter at 3,000 feet using only a tarp as a parachute.
 
estesbob said:
If suspect this movie will be as bad as the Davinci code . The problems with the plot listed in the story left out the biggest hoot-a guy jumping out of heicopter at 3,000 feet using only a tarp as a parachute.
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Thankfully, Brown’s other books haven’t garnered nearly the publicity (or the sales) that The DaVinci Code has. I predict the movie will flop and they won’t make any more of his books into movies. 🙂 (Or maybe that’s just wishful thinking on my part :D).
 
Good! Dan Brown’s books and movies are nothing but trash in my opinion!
 
With the free publicity the church gives it…it’ll be a box-offic hit. I plan on seeing it. I enjoyed the “DaVinci Code”. I attended it with a group of Wiccan friends…we wore special t-shirts for the “protesters” to spot us…they were kept at a distance from the door of the theater. Some of the signs were imaginative.🙂
 
If ever there was an example of pedestrial, banal, writing garnering huge success, it was The DaVinci Code. Leaving aside the issue of being offensive religiously, it was poorly organized, the dialog was C- grade senior in high school at best and was pseudo-didactic to the point of nausea. The sequence of events that took place in short period of time was wholly implausible. I didn’t understand then, and I still can’t understand why people bought it and read it. Librarians I have spoken with felt the same. Angels and Demons, which Iread in a little under two hours standing in the book section of a Target store, (the vocabulary is almost fifth grade) is dumber yet. The historical speculations in both books are old, old hat most of us got in general reading in college survey courses (if you read some of the extra reading in the syllabi.) Who doesn’t know about the centuries old argument over ultimate responsibility for the murder of the Knights Templar, for example?

The Church was right to bar filming.
 
OriginalJS said:
If ever there was an example of pedestrial, banal, writing garnering huge success, it was The DaVinci Code. Leaving aside the issue of being offensive religiously, it was poorly organized, the dialog was C- grade senior in high school at best and was pseudo-didactic to the point of nausea. The sequence of events that took place in short period of time was wholly implausible. I didn’t understand then, and I still can’t understand why people bought it and read it. Librarians I have spoken with felt the same. Angels and Demons, which Iread in a little under two hours standing in the book section of a Target store, (the vocabulary is almost fifth grade) is dumber yet. The historical speculations in both books are old, old hat most of us got in general reading in college survey courses (if you read some of the extra reading in the syllabi.) Who doesn’t know about the centuries old argument over ultimate responsibility for the murder of the Knights Templar, for example?
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Totally agree with you there!
I read both The Davinci Code and Angels and Demons
just to see what outragegous claims were made gainst the Church. It was not convincing at all ( I felt that after I read them my IQ level dropped 10 points.)The main characters are so two-dimentional that I began to root for the villains just because they were so convoluted and unrealistic!
Honestly, the Vatican should not just ban filming due to the book’s offensiveness; it should ban it for its horrible writing 😛
 
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With the free publicity the church gives it…it’ll be a box-offic hit. I plan on seeing it. I enjoyed the “DaVinci Code”. I attended it with a group of Wiccan friends…we wore special t-shirts for the “protesters” to spot us…they were kept at a distance from the door of the theater. Some of the signs were imaginative.🙂
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How could you possibly enjoy a movie that makes such unorthodox claims about Jesus? It claimed that Jesus was married for example and we all know that that isn’t true. I’m sorry but I just don’t see how you could possibly enjoy such a heretical movie. 🤷
 
One word…“fiction”…if every work of fiction had to conform to other peoples religious beliefs and rigid doctrinal cenosorship, there wouldn’t be a lot of “religious fiction” on the market.

FICTION
 
Publisher said:
One word…“fiction”…if every work of fiction had to conform to other peoples religious beliefs and rigid doctrinal cenosorship, there wouldn’t be a lot of “religious fiction” on the market.

FICTION
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True, but Dan Brown’s “Da Vinci Code” contains a “Fact page” which states that the novel is rooted in fact. A claim which is quite easily demonstrably false.

If people didn’t take his books so seriously, there would be no problem. But, the fact is that many people mistakenly believe his books are rooted in accurate historical scholarship. They are not.
 
Publisher said:
One word…“fiction”…if every work of fiction had to conform to other peoples religious beliefs and rigid doctrinal cenosorship, there wouldn’t be a lot of “religious fiction” on the market.

FICTION
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I work in the media. A movie can be a form of propaganda to convince Catholics and others to suspect that some sort of “truth” is being concealed by the Church. The propaganda films of World War II were done for the purpose of getting the average person to view the enemy a certain way. There is an attempt being waged at the moment across all media platforms to convince people to doubt the truth, to accept sin and finally, abandon God.

God bless,
Ed
 
Joe_5859 said:
True, but Dan Brown’s “Da Vinci Code” contains a “Fact page” which states that the novel is rooted in fact. A claim which is quite easily demonstrably false.

If people didn’t take his books so seriously, there would be no problem. But, the fact is that many people mistakenly believe his books are rooted in accurate historical scholarship. They are not.
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conspiracy theorists can’t tell the difference between fact and fiction. that’s why they’re conspiracy theorists.
 
Publisher said:
One word…“fiction”…if every work of fiction had to conform to other peoples religious beliefs and rigid doctrinal cenosorship, there wouldn’t be a lot of “religious fiction” on the market.

FICTION
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Tell me - if someone wrote this kind of fiction about someone in your family that you love, would you be okay with it? 🤷

Jesus is a real person; not a story character that someone can change around the facts and make up a new story about.
 
We will simply have to disagree. I am not invested in censoring what others write in their fictional accounts. If ones faith is fragile enough to be swayed by such an account, then they probablly shouldn’t read it. I enjoyed the two books, and I suspect I’ll enjoy his next one about Masons and Mormons…but I will read it with the secure knowledge it is a fictional account and most likely not be swayed to abandon my convictions on the Truth, but to each his own I guess.🙂

As a heretic and schismatic anyway, I’m not the best one to offer counsel on censorship…I don’t believe it fosters a secure faith in anything…it just restricts what one reads…not proclaim Truth nor does it strengthen Truths claims.🙂
 
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We will simply have to disagree. I am not invested in censoring what others write in their fictional accounts. If ones faith is fragile enough to be swayed by such an account, then they probablly shouldn’t read it.
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It’s not about my faith being swayed; it’s about my Beloved being insulted.
 
jmcrae said:
It’s not about my faith being swayed; it’s about my Beloved being insulted.
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I do not see it as an insult…it is a work of fiction with the historical Jesus as a minor character to add plot intrigue…but if you see it that way…don’t read the book…that’s ok with me…it really is.🙂
 
Why worry about it, Its all entertainment after all…
You cannot believe everything a book or movie shows, It is ment to open your eyes and make you think What if!!
My brother inlaw once stated about a movie many yrs ago that the movie was **** because its impossible for a man to jump out of a boeing plane at 30,000 ft without being killed.
My reply was to this man who watches starwars/startreck etc…
Your not ment to believe just watch and be entertained…

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We may be getting a little off topic, so here’s a thread that might interest anyone who wants to continue the “It’s just fiction” vs. “but it still effects people” discussion:

But it’s just FICTION!..
 
How strange that after the Passion of the Christ, there was a flurry of “Christian” films. Then the Da Vinci Code came out, and now there is a flurry of anti-Christian films. Hollywood must enjoy jumping on the bandwagons.
 
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