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Hollywood fairytale or Hollywood heresy

At coffe today our chief of administration loudly announced that he had seen the [[da vinci code]] yesterday and that it was an excellent movie. I don’t understand what all the fuss is about, no one in their right minds would actually believe in that stuff, he continued.

The problem is too many people do. [[Dan Brown]] starts out the book with a statement saying that while the characters are fictional it is all based on well researched facts. This means that anybody who has not taken the time to research the Bible or Jesus prior to reading the book or seeing the movie will be convinced that there in fact is truth behind the bold claims this book makes and that the bible as it stands today is the greatest heresy of all.

The real problem is not that Dan Brown has written a book that challenges Jesus authority and/or divinity or that he portrays this as researched facts. The real problem is that Christians are far to shy to come out and debunk these statements. The davinci code is not a real threat to Christianity nor a threat to anything else, it is badly researched and packed with assumptions that are not even remotely hinted at by any facts in history. The da vinci code is a mystery novel written to make a lot of money, and if you read any other book by Dan Brown (wich I recommend against since they are all built up exactly the same so if youe read on, youe read them all. If you are gonna read one I suggest Angels and Demons wich I enjoyed immensly, even tho that to is abysmal in it’s reasearch and factual background) You will see that he has made a system out of churning out books following the exact same skeleton, just changing the names of the characters and the mystery it solves.
No the davinci code is no threat, The real threat is Christians who check in their brains when they enter church and think that faith is the only active ingredient in being a christian therefore reasoning, logic, science and facts are irrelevant. We need to step up and educate ourselves in apologetics, we need to have thought through answers to the seekers questions, we need to be well prepared and well trained for the battle at hand.

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Pat Smith

Yes I agree that Christians are not educated enough in their faith to be able to effectively counteract the rubbish churned out by the world against Christianity. It is such a dificult thing to do as our faith is not carnal but spiritual so that those who are spiritually dead will not understand what we are talking about.
What can we do about it?

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