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What i find crazy, is that someone can make a movie totally lampooning Christianity, and no one takes notice. I am a very active christian. I take my christianity with me where ever I go. I read the book over a year ago, and found it to be somewhat entertaining, but wasn't offended by it. It is mearly a work of fiction, nothing more. I can tell that the author researched his book very well, and changed biblical fact to fit his story line.
As for christians seeing the movie? see it or don't see it. It in no way effected my relationship with Christ. it was just a book. I plan on seeing the movie. I will be no less a believer in the truth of the Bible after the movie than I am now.I went to see Star Wars, I didn't start training to be a jedi knight ater that, I will not be shakin in my faith by a movie It's just entertainment people, get over it!

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People are also forgetting that the book is wonderful for enthusiasts of art and conspiracies and religion even. So much information in the text. That's what makes the book so fun and will probably make the movie great, too. The book is educational and fun to read!

Angels & Demons is a better book, though, if you ask me. I think it's because the Catholic characters in it are crazier.

Baptized and raised.

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If the Vatican is really concerned about the impact of this fictional movie then they should shut up! THe more noise you make the more they will convince the conspiracy nuts that they really are hiding something, which is what they already believe.

The Da Vinci Code is just fiction based on a well documented hoax. The truth of the matter is that the Orthodox Christian story is hardly provable beyond reasonable doubt with the available historical evidence regardless of what the Vatican wants us to believe. Most of the Christian story has to be accepted on the basis of faith especially the miraculous claims of Jesus being son of God and the resurecction and so forth. So they don't have any more of a leg to stand on other than they are the side that one and their version has been told for the past 2,000 years.

Most of the people I know who have read the book take it for nothing more than an entertaining piece of B-Grade fiction based largely on legends and hoaxes. Those who do take it more seriously believe in Ruth Montgomery, Eric Von Daniken and many of them believe they have been abducted by Aliens. They will be squeezing in the film in between Star Trek Conventions and Anal Probes administered on the mothership.

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It was a good read. Thorough research made it all the more enjoyable. But regardless of personal likes and dislikes, it's a book. I resent instructions from my church's pulpit as to what reading material is permissable, this red flag is worrisome. It happens with politics as well, and we know that's a terrible violation of our tax code. Church and State, never the twain ...

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Why they begin to struggle only when the film is soon approaching it's finish line? Why they didn't mention it when only the book was released? I tell you why - they don't read books! But they watch hollywood films, because of that they begin to struggle only recently enough

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It’s just a book. It is a work of fiction based on some very dubious interpretations of biblical themes. It is an entertainment not fact or even close to it. I found the book to be an entertaining bit of popular fiction but in no way would I classify it as good literature. It is a great airplane book. It’s fiction, it’s made up! Get a life people. Stop watching TV and read a bit and you’ll realize what a mediocre bit of fluff the book is.

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It is not the highbrow intellectuals who considered the book to be an enjoyable airplane read that the church is worried about. It is the stupid people who think that Saddam crashed into the Twin Towers who will either be led to believe some of the hogwash in the book or become uproariously opposed to something that is, as you've all said, just a piece of fluff.

As a Catholic who read the book, I can honestly say that I found the dialogue to be unbelievably cheesy, but it was a fantastic way to pass 18 hours. I am proud that my religion can be skewered by Hollywood without fear of a world wide uprising. Bring it on!

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"It’s just a book. It is a work of fiction based on some very dubious interpretations of biblical themes"

Did you mean The Da Vinci Code or the Bible?

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um, both books are wrks of fiction

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i thought the book was fantastic, very well written. i am a catholic, born and raised... while it does bring the idea that the bible is... dare i say it.... false, that is not what dan brown is saying, he is simply saying that it is a possibility... the first person that was alive during the time of Christ can come tell me what happened, until that person comes to me, im going to go on believing that there is more than one possibility as to what point of view is actually true, or if neither one is true and its something completely different, very few people are going to change their entire belief system because of a book of FICTION, most people will say "wow that is an interesting view point, and possible but how can we know for sure???" the church needs to realize that people are going to want to watch the movie and read the book more because of all the press it is getting. what is the saying??? "bad press is better than no press" or something like that!

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Two old prophets Nag-Hammon and Dead Sea Scroll prove that the"Easter bunny and Santa Clause" may have happend in a manfactured way and should have its own diclamer. I find it interesting that a known work of fiction is doing what history does not -make people ask questions- but you know ban it, if you can not burn it put it to the question.

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I think since this is a work of fiction and a persons beliefs are strong enough, this should not effect anyone who is Christian. Its just a movie like all others. Although I read the book, I see no truths in what I have read brought in the Catholic Religion.

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