Da Vinci Code

[graham]

Re:Has it occured to you?

Das Boot Have you considered that you may be causing offence to just one or two Catholic forumites? is it intentional ,or dont you care?

i think the Da Vinci Code is boring inconclusive and overhyped. if "The Church" feels threatened by it they would do better to not stir up more publicity and let it go the way of the Atkins diet.I remember reading Wheatley books for no better reason than that they were banned so must be good.

 

[l'escargot]

The established "church" isn't particularly bothered - it is a work of fiction. The worrying feature is that a a lot of supposedly intelligent people who have read it (and those that haven't) seem to have missed this.

The Catholic church don't try to get books withdrawn or banned, they just have a list of books that Catholics shouldn't read.

 

[alanporter]

"Books the Church don't want catholics to read". You mean like those books about the six hundred years of the Papal Inquisition describing how all those "heretics" were tortured and murdered by the Church ?

 

[Lakesailor]

Re:Has it occured to you?

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Das Boot Have you considered that you may be causing offence to just one or two Catholic forumites? is it intentional ,or dont you care?


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As a staunch atheist (and I did Religious Knowledge 'A' level) I'm offended every day by religiously inclined people insinuating that my life is controlled by some 'higher being' and that I will be saved in the Kingdom of God despite myself.
So why do we have to pussy-foot around believers, are they not stout in their beliefs?

Don't any of you have a bed to go to?
(not meant to be a religious rant and I know it's off topic, but I didn't start it)

 

[snowleopard]

Re:Has it occured to you?

if i tell a 'believer' that he is wrong, that causes offence.

if he tells me that my (opposite) belief is wrong, does he worry about offending me?

and when he tells me that i have no morals unless i have a church to tell me what's right and wrong and a god to punish me if i get it wrong, it gets right up my nose.

 

[mikewilkes]

Re:Has it occured to you?

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Don't any of you have a bed to go to?

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But some of us are in different time zones.

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[mikewilkes]

Just remember also..

Most of the conflicts, prior to them being oil related, were as a result of religious intolerances!!!!!

 

[Fill]

Surely this all started....

with a Horizon program on TV years ago (at least 15)?

There was a fascinating enigma that involved the Cathars treasure and Rennes-le Chateau with a puzzle and mystery that the team tried to solve (Henry something I think). The first program was infuriating as there was clearly some sort of mystery and they ended the programme leaving you with it unsolved. There followed (a lot later) 2 more episodes in which they discovered more of the mystery, solved some of the codes and finally proclaimed that Christ had married and had children. There was then the book "the holy blood and the holy grail".

The whole thing came to a sad end when Channel 4 screened a program which rather meanly identified and interviewed the hoaxers who had set the whole thing up and who expressed their scorn that the treasure hunters had failed to solve what was thought to be one of the more obvious clues.

I remember feeling a little aggrieved that Ch4 had spoilt so gorgeous a theory by showing it to be a hoax. Especially as by then I'd bought the book.

 

[iangrant]

They are very serious believe it or not - try a Google on Da Vince and all the man made God worshippers are there...

Ian

 

[l'escargot]

What books are those then or are you just having a dig?

 

[Peppermint]

Re: Angels & Demons

Is slightly better I think. Have the church gone into stable door closing cos it's sold millions already.