This morning on the way to work I heard a commercial on the radio from some local pastor who was soliciting audiences to come to a special service he was giving called "Unlocking The DaVinci Code."
It's certainly not the first commercial I've heard dealing with the subject, but it was by far the most desperate. There was literally a sense of urgency to the guy's voice, like he was actually afraid or something. By the end of the ad I wouldn't have been surprised at all if he had started shouting out:
The way I see it -- Myths benefit from vilians. Ideas need questions to help them grow into beliefs.
If you're going to be reactionary to something that's fine, but how about reacting to it when it actually happens -- not just when Sony pictures decides to make a load of money off of it?
It's certainly not the first commercial I've heard dealing with the subject, but it was by far the most desperate. There was literally a sense of urgency to the guy's voice, like he was actually afraid or something. By the end of the ad I wouldn't have been surprised at all if he had started shouting out:
This is not a drill people - Frogs are falling from the sky!Understand something here -- I've got no problem with people standing up for what they believe in. If Christians feel like they need to offer rebuttals to the claims made in The DaVinci Code, that's cool. Hell, things like this probably do wonders in terms of re-invigorating people's faith by prompting them to ask the kinds of questions that give them the chance to confirm the depth of their own convictions.
Do you hear me? Frogs are falling from the fucking sky!!
The way I see it -- Myths benefit from vilians. Ideas need questions to help them grow into beliefs.
Without Pharoah, Moses would just be another dude with a stick.But what really bugs me the most is the idea that somehow the movie is what people should be worried about. The DaVinci Code novel has been out for what, 3 years now? Everywhere you go you see people reading it, reading about it, and talking about it -- but now that Tom Hanks is involved it's an emergency!?
Without Simon Peter, the story of Jesus wouldn't be half as long.
If you're going to be reactionary to something that's fine, but how about reacting to it when it actually happens -- not just when Sony pictures decides to make a load of money off of it?
Here's a good rule of thumb: If Ron Howard's involved -- it's already too late.Panic is a big part of the business of religion -- I get that. It's not like I don't realize that the people who are sounding the war drums over all this are doing it for a reason, it's just that I find it really funny when the method you use inadvertantly points out your own ignorance.
I mean when you get right down to it a minister saying that anyone who reads
the bible should know that the DaVinci Code movie is based on lies is pretty
much the equivalent of a vegetarian wearing a leather jacket.
[Listening to: Emery, "Studying Politics"]
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