time to speak

Rating: 7/10 (19 May 2006)

OK. It's time to say something. Having read the book and seen the film it is startlingly obvious that Dan Brown is not the most talented of writers but he hit on a great story and the movie is a fair reflection of that. So to the critics, 60 million book sales can't be wrong and any Ron Howard and A list cast movie will hardly flop, particularly with all the free publicity kindly provided by world-wide church folk. I enjoyed them both.
I'm a Christian and I follow my faith and I have to say it takes a lot more than an average novelist and a good movie to sway me away from that. Especially when it is a work of fiction and has never been claimed to be any more than that by ANYONE. Just correct references to art, architecture, documents and secret rituals. But not the story.
Did the religious world go crazy when in Raiders of the lost Ark, Indy went in search of a TRUE religious relic the Ark of the Covenant, the treasure hunt which followed and the murder of the nasty Nazis at the end. The same holds for Indiana Jones and the last Crusade - the search for the Holy Grail no less - followed by treasure hunt and 800 year old templar nights protecting it - sounds kinda familiar huh? Joseph and his amazing technicoloured dream coat - based on a religious truth and turned into a musical - do i really think it happened that way - no, its a fictitious musical obviously still running in theatreland across the globe without religious protests to help market it. The Omen series was actually based on the BIBLE and other easily accessible religious documents and had more of a basis for being fact than most but no, its a made up story, a good yarn - we didn't need to be told then and we don't now. Devil's advocate, where Al baby screams that God is an absentee landlord etc etc - did I shake with religious fury, no no no - its made up you see.
I could go on as could you - the point is very clear. Come on church people, have a little faith in your world-wide flock - we know its just a story and it seems to be you who needs convincing otherwise. You have done far more to raise doubt over the truth we know and believe than Dan Brown ever could have. Have faith.