Hobbit
Senior Member
jillian said:OK, I can see where it would bug you to the extent that you don't buy it. But to be honest, it isn't blasphemy. No where does it say one shouldn't believe that Jesus was the Messiah if that's their belief, just a flight of fancy based on the acknowledgement that he was also flesh. In fact, if you read the book, it talks at the end, about faith being good for people and how it shouldn't be shaken. I think part of the problem you're having with it is a cultural thing....understandable. But for non-believers who see it as "just a book" or "just a movie", it doesn't rise to that level of importance any more than Godspell or Jesus Christ, Superstar, should be taken as gospel truth (pun intended). Should you not see it? Perhaps. Should you tell the people who believe as you do that they shouldn't see it? Sure...if they find it offensive. I guess I just see the possibility of Jesus having been married as interesting. Also interesting, to me, anyway, is that since Jesus was an Essene, (at least seems to have been the case based on the Dead Sea Scrolls) his body couldn't have been attended by any woman but for his mother and/or his wife. His body was attended by both Mary's. Just a side-note.
If Jesus was in a monastic order, I don't exactly see it being ommitted from the gospels, same as him being married.
As far as just not liking it enough not to buy it, I really don't see you grasping the gravity of what they're doing by passing this off as truth. If you want a bit more perspective on it, just imagine if somebody claimed that AIDS as an STD was just a myth and that it was actualy just a latent genetic disorder. Now, there's a book of fiction about the coverup of this knowledge for the purpose of suppressing sex, and enough people believe in the coverup that they stop practicing caution in their sexual practices. Of course, there would be a huge outbreak of AIDS cases, at least until the truth came to light. Now then, imagine if a bunch of people who didn't do any activities that could result in AIDS just walked around saying, "Hey, it's just a piece of fiction. What's the big deal." However, in the case of the Da Vinci Code, people who start believing all this stuff won't realize it's wrong until it's too late.
This piece of 'subjective belief' that allows people to believe they can just alter Christianity to suit their own purposes is damaging to everything that missionaries have spend centuries working toward.