Let me begin by saying that religion will always be a questionable subject for some people, myself included. I personally have struggled with faith all my life. I consider myself a relatively intelligent, open minded person but am infuriated after seeing this movie. It attacks Dan Brown for writing a book he believes is historically accurate. Do I think every theory in Dan Brown's book is correct? No, I wanted to watch this special based on the fact that I am open to interpretation and wanted an objective rebuttal to the book. I never expected to be preached to about the historic value of the bible and its religious implications.
The church has publicly documented that the bible is a collaboration of religious and historical theology as practiced by early catholics. Most catholics believe the bible is the word of god. This is a problem for me. In my objective opinion it's the word of man. Men wrote the documents, Men put the documents together, Men distributed documents as a religious text and preached the contents as gospel. Did God inspire the men to write, There's no way to prove or disprove that theory. Is it fallible, of course, Man Wrote It.
This documentary uses the bible as it's evidential proof to disprove Dan Brown. That's the real problem I have with this movie. Every statement the experts made were then referred back to the bible as proof. The only historic evidence they give is on some of Leonardo Divinci's work, what little they do provide. I thought this movie would be more objective, religious, but objective. They even provided scripture as "proof."
I think that everyone should be able to believe what they want to. Catholics should able to believe in god and the bible. I personally think it's wonderful to have unfaltering faith. I just wish they wouldn't try to convince me it's a historical text. This movie is perfect for a devout catholic who needs reassuring that The Divinci Code is a work of fiction. For the rest of us, we don't need convincing. Dan Brown might believe everything he wrote, but as most people that I know who read the book, including myself, realize it's no more infallible than the bible itself. It's just a darn good book....
The church has publicly documented that the bible is a collaboration of religious and historical theology as practiced by early catholics. Most catholics believe the bible is the word of god. This is a problem for me. In my objective opinion it's the word of man. Men wrote the documents, Men put the documents together, Men distributed documents as a religious text and preached the contents as gospel. Did God inspire the men to write, There's no way to prove or disprove that theory. Is it fallible, of course, Man Wrote It.
This documentary uses the bible as it's evidential proof to disprove Dan Brown. That's the real problem I have with this movie. Every statement the experts made were then referred back to the bible as proof. The only historic evidence they give is on some of Leonardo Divinci's work, what little they do provide. I thought this movie would be more objective, religious, but objective. They even provided scripture as "proof."
I think that everyone should be able to believe what they want to. Catholics should able to believe in god and the bible. I personally think it's wonderful to have unfaltering faith. I just wish they wouldn't try to convince me it's a historical text. This movie is perfect for a devout catholic who needs reassuring that The Divinci Code is a work of fiction. For the rest of us, we don't need convincing. Dan Brown might believe everything he wrote, but as most people that I know who read the book, including myself, realize it's no more infallible than the bible itself. It's just a darn good book....