Compatriot, I don't watch much TV, I think I heard this being announced before, but I had no idea what it was about.....but now that you mention it even if it's a dumb tv show, who could possibly think anyone could save the world in 24. 

It's not like he is fighting off Lucifer. All he has to do is save the president or his daughter or a boat full of people but it has such an over-emphasized importance it is as though "If we don't get this letter to the post office in 17 minutes then the French will explode!!!!!!" I am sort of glad I am the only one who has to watch this, now me advising to avoid it wont see like demanding. Just keep doing what you're doing.

In the book there is no decenting voice. In the scene in the library with Tom Hanks and Liam Neison they have a debate about the Council of Nicea and such and Tom Hanks continually parrots out a bunch of stuff the Catholic Church has been saying for a couple centuries. In the book this is completely absent, everything is much more one-sided. I think the funniest thing is that the Albino Community is getting all up in arms about Silas. It is as if the Blonde community protested about Sophia (I don't know the actresses name), wasn't allowed to be casted blonde because that fits the stereotype of Blondes being dumb.

A little side note, does the Bible ever mention Albinos? I was racking my brain but I couldn't think of anything.

Okay this will sound dumb, but what is 24.

It's fine. It is a lame show on FOX about a guy who has to save the world in 24 hours. The hook to the show is that all the shows are done in actual time, so the season is 24 episodes long with hour long episodes. It is also terrible and insulting to anyone's intelligence. It's basically CSI level stuff.

I don't know if this is the place for it, but I really don't enjoy the show 24. It is boring, overpaced and all the action is phoned in. I really wish the would just get rid of it.

I saw it last night, it was fine. The book is much more one sided but it is obvious they have infused a good amount more level thinking in Tom Hanks' character. I don't know who's decision that was, but it was nice.


Is anyone gonna see it? Has anyone else seen it already?

Unfortunately such ignorance in such films will lead many away from Christ.

Too true, and a big AMEN. I still hope they make more like it in hopes to educate those left floundering and make them think.

how could you not like a book called The Fall of Lucifer?

Another very good flick. I loved the final explosion of the parlament building to booming orchestral music. I don't see film as the enemy, only ignorance to both sides.

*Yawns again.*

*Can't wait until he gets around to reading The DaVinci Code.*

It is a great book (really leaves you on the egde of your seat) but some of the action is phoned in. Good narrative style as well.

Today's episode had the beginning of time as God almost loosing an arm wrestling match then lighting a fart to create the Big Bang and the universe.

Sure, wrought with blasphemy, but a hillarious image none the less.

American History X and Fight Club, wonderful all the way. I was having a Norton Night.

Hello Compatriot,

I second the WELCOME! back.

It's really not a matter of hating Brown for anything he is doing, rather a concern for those searching, the unsaved, and the babes in Christ.

One needs a fairly strong foundation in God's Word to easily recognize the Da Vinci Code as pure fiction, certainly nothing resembling a fact. The concern from Christians is that it will confuse and deceive many.

In terms of hate, we hate sin, not the sinner. The same is true with GOD. HE hates sin but loved mankind enough to send HIS Son, JESUS CHRIST, to die on the Cross. There is no greater love than this, so the hate is for sin, not the man or woman committing the sin.

Glad to have you back!

Love In Christ,
Tom

Philippians 4:19-20 NASB  And my God will supply all your needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.  Now to our God and Father be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

I understand the lost souls that could be turned astray, in fact they were my first concern, I just think that anyone with a level head, not even one with insight in Theology, would realize this is not the book to base your ideas of faith on. I didn't watch "The Passion of the Christ" and was suddenly tricked into thinking Christ was White. I understand that those weak or ignorant to the faith are at risk but I don't think that our reaction as Christians should be to attack a fictional text for discrepancies when it is a fictitious text. I enjoyed "Dogma" for all of its faults but I don't think anyone walked out of the film thinking Alanis Morissette was God (in the last few scenes she was revealed as God). Now you can argue that is because everyone already has a preconceived notion (either from the church or  other pop culture/societal sources) but I think that it's the fact that it is a movie. I am probably missing some part of me as a Christian because I think that anything that Dan Brown should be allowed to do what he wants just as much as any other group. I would hate for others to tell us that loving Christ isn't OK, as public opinion has begun to tip, and I think that our persecution or Brown for writing a book of any content is the reason. I am sorry if I don't sound compassionate for those who may be swayed but I don't think it is realistic that anyone would take a movie for religious truth.

I feel a deep sympathy for those led astray by this film but I have read the book and frankly did not feel misled. His first page with the header "FACT" has led many to assume the rest of the book is rooted in the same facts when to me it seemed obvious that if you need a "FACT" page the other info must not be too factual. The accusations made are shocking but not remotely able to shake or even touch my faith and I am even more amazed that we as a congregation are giving any sort of validation in complaining. Dan Brown, aside from his web site, has stayed quite for a reason, he knows that our outcry and those deceived's dry back is keeping the book in the news and off the shelves. I liked the book along with his other "Angels and Demons" (where the Catholic Church is almost destroyed by a crazed ancient group (sound familiar?) the Illuminati) and I think it is very American of us to allow him to write it and very Christian of us to love him regardless.

But God would protect His Book from such "alterations" from occuring, or at least make sure a true definition of Christianity still flourished somwhere. In the begining all Bible's were writen down by hand. Every time they were writen and re-writen a chance for "human" error could always occur. Yet, when looking from modern to ancient copies of the text the differences are so minute it begs to womder how. If not through Divine protection of the Word of God, then what? Luck? I don't honestly think a true Christian would believe that God left his Book's integrity and truth to luck. To go back to your original point, if The Bible was in essence re-writen hundreds of times before the printing press and we still honor it's words as the Binding Gospels, then why would a shift in language change a thing?

Man translated it, not God, and man is fallible.  

But God is omnipotent and everpresent. Do you believe that our Lord would let man fail in tranfering His word to the world and it's peoples? No, faith in the divine spirts ability is what you are lacking. The Bible was placed into this world by God and through man. Man could never write such a perfect text.