If I never hear about the DaVinci Code again, I think I’ll be good. You want to know what kept me out of the Church for so long? This crap that is going on with Churches now. I get so damned frustrated by the way Christians react to culture, and I’m once again at that point. Its as if American pop-Christianity views this book/movie as the anti-Christ somehow and that is going to have the final say on the faith if they don’t act now. Lets see, a cultural phenomenon that challenges the very tenents of the diety of Christ, his relationship to Mary, and does so from a perspective that some secular historians would back… sounds familiar. Oh wait, maybe Martin Scorsese’s Last Temptation of Christ.
I think Christianity did fine making it out of the clutches of this previous media phenom, I wouldn’t imagine that Dan Brown’s book, which I remind you is found in the “Fiction” section of all bookstores, is going to have much resounding damage as well. Who is buying this book, I repeat in the fiction section, and reading it as historical fact? Now, I know it raises questions about the Knights Templar and Prior of Sion, and that’s fine… questions are good. Learning, despite what the Church would have you believe, is a good thing. Asking questions… a good thing.
Here’s the thing that gets me the most. Out of all the thousands of Christians that are out lambasting the book, I can bet that most have never read the book. They are against it because Pat Roberson or some other popular figure that they blindly follow told them it was some devilish attack on Chrsitianity. Ok, if you want to believe that, its cool with me, but read it before you make that decision. I had to sit through a whole presentation today on how to combat the DaVinci Code questions, but I can be sure that most of that room had never read the book or seen the movie. If you want to boycott the movie and remain silent about it, that’s fine… its your perogative. But for those who want to attack the book and criticize, you better have read the book, or you have no dog in that fight… and ultimately make Christians look even less interested in understanding non-Christians than ever before.
