The Da Vinci Code
He insults anyone who thinks there is any bit of truth to the book, calling them ignorant. He believes that everyone who sees the movie is at risk for believing the "nonsense." He believes the media is wrong, irresponsible, and takes "voluptuous pleasure" in promoting works with no basis in truth. And I believe Cardinal Paul Poupard, Cultural Minister of the Vatican, is an absolute fucking imbecile.
First off, the fucking man is 75 years old. How can a man who is 75 years old be a minister of anything regarding culture? What they really need is someone who understands the current culture. Not a 75 year old fucking coot who has been running that section of the Church since 1988. He has no grasp on culture in 2006.
"What I'm concerned about is that decent people who do not have the proper religious education will take this nonsense for the real thing," said the cardinal, who has headed the Pontifical Council for Culture since 1988.
This is certainly not what he's concerned about. I'll tell you exactly what he's really concerned about. This movie promotes the idea that Jesus was not divine, and that he did in fact get lots of booty from Mary Magdalene. Now, the movie basically explains through Da Vinci's code why this is true. This idea is extremely dangerous to the Church. Let me remind you of something very important.
The Catholic Church is the oldest corporation in the world. They are a single company that's been going for centuries upon centuries. This movie, this idea, and a cultural phenomenon, as he called it, is absolutely a danger to the corporation. It promotes free thinking. It promotes an idea that any logical person, wether they believe in Jesus or not, could believe.
Is it possible that Jesus Christ fucked a woman and had a kid? Of course it's possible. And likely. Even if you believe in his divinity, that doesn't mean that he wasn't a real human person with real human instincts. It's very likely that Christ wasn't in fact divine. And this idea is far beyond dangerous to the Church. It's their money, it's their income, and it's a protection of what they believe to be their role on Earth. To protect and nourish the idea of a God.
The fact of the matter is this: I believe a guy named Jesus probably existed. I do not believe he was divine. I don't believe anyone is divine. I believe it all to be a myth. But I certainly enjoyed The Da Vinci Code, and you would enjoy it too. There's absolutely no need to ban a movie that in the end, promotes free thinking and challenges you to question everything and to not just blindly believe in something that's been shoved down your throat since birth.
The movie itself does not come out against Christianity. In fact, I'd say in the end, the movie is very pro-religion and pro-faith, but I still love it. I still enjoy the movie because I believe, just like the movie, it's all fiction. The bible is fiction based on on a few facts. Same as the movie. The Da Vinci Code is a fictional story based on facts. There is code in Da Vinci's paintings. That's hardly disputable, especially in The Last Supper. Just leave it alone and enjoy it. The only person who wouldn't enjoy this movie or would not support this movie is someone with a Nazi frame of mind who believes you should be controlled, and who is afraid that their religion is so frail and weak and that it just might get smacked around and defeated by a Tom Hanks movie.
In the end, in a thousand or so years from now, people with refer to Christianity as "English Mythology", and it'll all be looked at in the same way we look at Green Mythology. It's laughable, folks. So give it up, take your faith in your God and put it in yourself. Buy a ticket and enjoy the fucking movie.
posted by Matt The Sick at 11:37:00 AM
9 Comments:
I appreciate it, Jeff. I was in a funk there for a while, but I'm getting out of it.
Yeah, I wasn't sure where you were going with the extra day of the week post, but this sounds a bit more like you.
Also 100% with you on this.
Haha. I think it was like writer's block with a hint of blogging just to blog. That kinda thing.
Nice post, Matt. Lighten-up, people. It's fiction.
I appreciate it Ken. I'm very happy to see you, as well as everyone else still reading my writing. Especially after the long non-posting spurts.
Matt, I'll keep reading to check in on the ire of a young man every now and again. Nice to see your thoughtful post again. Hope all is well with the no-smoking-thing.
FYI: Jim Bishop wrote a book in the '50's called "The Day Christ Died". It's a fiction about Jesus' last day in earth and all that hoohaa, but it paints Jesus in a more human light not through sex, but through his "human" uncertainty of what was supposed to happen to him. His faith waivered more than once within his last week, and to visualize him throwing himself against a rock in grief and having basically a nervous breakdown, it doesn't help the image of the "calm" and "serene" savior, now, does it?
Anyway, Just thought I'd throw that book in to show that this obviously isn't the first time someone has humanized Jesus. Also, there's a book called "Rabbi Jesus", written around 2000, I think, which even explicitly implies that Jewish B.C. culture was not so sexually repressed, and Jesus could very well have gotten it on with Mary Magdalene--not as a John, but as a mate or husband. Again, humanizing. Again, pre-daVinci Code. I wonder what the Vatican's position is on all that?
Ken
No smoking yet. Still doing good and still perusing baseball. About to join adult league and play with loser old men mixed with pretty talented college kids. Going good.
Zack
I don't think Christians were necessarily promoting the depiction of Mohammad. It was Americans in general. They don't want to ban it. I've seen no one tied to the Vatican call for BANNING the film. They speak out against it. The most I saw was attempting to get Ron Howard to display a disclaimer, stating that the movie is fiction. I hate defending the Church, but compared to Muslims, the people in the Vatican are alright. Thanks for the comment Zach.
Brothergrimm
I expected a lot of arguments too. I think the media made this out to be a bigger deal than it is. I was talking to my Grandma about this movie, and even she said "So what" to this whole mess. I think most people are intrigued by the idea. Not offended. Appreciate it, as always.
There was another book, I believe about the Holy Grail theory that played a big part in Dan Brown's writing. The name of that book escapes me at this moment though. It was extremely rare for a man in that time to not have a wife. There weren't fucked up repressed geeks like we have today. There was NO internet porn back then! Can you imagine?! There was no porn at all! THERE WAS NO ALTERNATIVE TO BANGING AND MARRIAGE. YOU HAD TO GET MARRIED TO BANG. Unless you were Jesus' Mom, of course. (Couldn't resist.)
Yes lilybug, that is the name of the book I was referring to. Thanks for the clarification.
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