What is the controversy??

C&K*s Mommie wrote: In short, can someone explain the controversy over the Da Vinci Code movie? I think it has something to do with the Catholic church, but I have not been paying it much mind. I only heard about the book, not terribly long ago... and now a movie. I am out of the loop.

amynicole21 replied: The book centers around the idea that Jesus was married and had a child. Catholics don't like that idea much.

ashtonsmama replied: OK-I know many more fundamentalist/conservative churches are opposed to it because it brings up alot of falsehoods in the movie/book that aren't true I guess, and they think that it will confuse people and make them believe that the Bible isn't real, Jesus wasn't real, etc.

KWIM?

And yes, I think (don't quote me) but I think that the Catholic church banned their members (or are just really opposed) to people seeing it. Some churches here and around the country are doing showing of the movie at their churches to talk to people about it afterwards and do a Q & A type thing.

ashtonsmama replied:
Thank you--I forgot that.

C&K*s Mommie replied: Thanks you guys for the clarifications. I understand now.

Bee_Kay replied: I think (and I may be way off base) that I heard something about there was controversy about Mary having more children than just Jesus.

Like I said, I may have misunderstood.

luvbug00 replied: the book basically says that mary and jesus were a coupple and produced a child it also states the possiblity of mary being seated next to jesus in the "last supper" painting and that one of the disiples was renamed because it was really mary.

IMO don't see the big stink. it's just a bunch of theries...

edited to say.... mary is in the painting but discused as a man...

Jamison'smama replied: It is a bunch of theories but I think churches are worried that people will be influenced by the movie and see it as fact. Same as in the 80's with The Last Temptation of Christ

Our Lil' Family replied:
Just to clarify, it states that he was married to Mary Magdelan, not Mary his mother.

holley79 replied: lol

luvbug00 replied: Right Mary M. sorry should have clarified.. Thank you!

~~*Missi*~~ replied: Is it like the controversary that surround STIGMATA when it was produced and came out???

Am I the only person (I am not catholic, protestant thou) that wonders why the catholics (higher up's) get there panties all in a bunch if its really fiction and has no truth to it.....???? Kinda makes you wonder if it is one of those 1/2 truth 1/2 speculation type things....

luvbug00 replied: As a former catholic i can try.. Because they don't want ANYTHING to make Jesus or the bible or the religon for that matter seem unpure. KWIM. Like Jesus was supposed to be celebite ( hence priest celablisy) and he was supposed to be Gods son, devoted to God and teaching the Word of God, so with this it makes him able to have fault. it also contradicts some of the bibles teachings and it's just no good for them to see any insinuation True or false that may ill mark the religon. JMO based on what i was taught.. deffinately open for interpertaion by others

BTW. I say "supposed" becuause i no longer practice any religon within' a community and hence my beliefs have shifted many a time so i'm not exact on anything.

~~*Missi*~~ replied:
I remember when we were in Isreal going thru the holy land and the walk of christ to his death, his birth place etc....

Isn't the bible the writings of the followers of christ not his actual words... That he's words and scrolls have yet to be discovered?

Which as everyone knows (i think) that other peoples views, opinions, thoughts and actions can be misinterperted so with that anything is possible... right??

luvmykids replied:
I think they also just feel it is sacreligious and blasphemous. They see it as disrespectful and although I disagree because it's fiction, not someone trying to rewrite Catholocism, I do understand their point of view. They believe so strongly and passionately that they feel it is an insult to their religion and beliefs.

A&A'smommy replied: You know I can kinda see WHY but yet it is fiction and has never tried to say it was true so it doesn't bother me I want to see it.. i would never be able to read that book its not my kind of book

Nina J replied: I honestly don't see why they make such a fuss. They miss two key works: entertainment and fiction. They act like anyone who goes to see it or read the book is going to believe it. I just don't get it, the same as I don't get why they're against the Harry Potter books. It's not real, but whats wrong with using your imagination???

But, to each there own and I can understand why people are against it. My husband is very religious and he say's that if God didn't want us to write books like this, or make movies about it, he wouldn't have given us the intellectual ability to do so.

Hillbilly Housewife replied: I loved the book - and I am looking forward to going to see the movie.

I really enjoy thoughts on controversy - like why, wjen there is no wind on the moon, the video if the first man to walk on the moon featues a Waving flag.

And why Area 51 is soooo protected.

I really enjoyed (spoilers ahead for the book)









hearing about Jesus having children, his bloodline surviving up to our present day, and the hidden messages in Leonardo Da Vinci's paintings such as th ehand motions with the painting of teh babies, and the quest for the Holy Grail - as well as what the Holy Grail turns out to be. I enjoyed reading about the secrets of the Vatican and their struggle against the Priory of Scion to KEEp the secrets.

I really enjoyed the book, tremendusly - but that doesn't mean I didn't read where it says - Although some places are fact - the story is FICTION.

It sure made me want to visit that area and look for the stuff in the book - like the street markers - which do actually exist - my mom's seen them when she lived there 26 years ago.

luvbug00 replied:

when i say teching the word of God i'm refering to the things God told Jesus to do not the bible.

Cece00 replied: The catholic church teaches that the bible is infallible, meaning that is the word of God & is not wrong, etc

So since some ppl dont get that this is fiction, or will question the bible, the church has a problem with it.

C&K*s Mommie replied: The Bible, is the inspired word of GOD. No, not the direct written by HIM word. From what I have been taught- He told the writers what to write, and some of the books of the Bible are forebodings (like Revelations) that were relayed in a dream. But this is a small segment of what I have been taught, so there is more.