This Week in God, 5-21-06

Well, The Da Vinci Code has just opened this week and many people are not happy with it. Why? Because it's not based on truth. That's probably why the novel the movie is based on has been sold in stores and categorized in libraries all across the county as FICTION.
Fiction is something that is mainly not true.
A short word for not true is false.
So, why the hub bub, bub over the past few years over this book and movie?
This past week Tulsa World ran a cartoon parodying The Andy Griffith Show in which Opie has "666" in his head. That's a little extreme, isn't it? Especially, since Ron Howard is one of the few child actors who's been able to maintain a steady and healthy family life, as well as evolving into a separate successful career without plowing his BMW around a Redwood tree with a BAC of O.59.
And the movie stars Tom Hanks, so it can't be all that bad. Even when Jimmy Stewart was making those dark movies with Hitchcock, we steal couldn't get past the fact that it was little Mr. Smith turning Kim Novak into a sick twisted version of a person he thought is dead. We knew it was nice little George Bailey spying on Raymond Burr.
If anything else, The Da Vinci Code in my opinion, is just a cash cow. And what's funny is that everyone is wanting real estate on Bovine Avenue.
If there is only something worse than someone authoring a book which story he probably doesn't believe in (c,mon, do you actually think Stephen King believes in evil cars and cell phones turning people into zombies) it's that people have written countless books debasing The Da Vinci Code.
Remember, this book is considered fiction.
How come no one wrote books debunking The Bridges of Madison County. Because that book is a pile of shit.
The Da Vinci Code has been a success. So have the Left Behind books? So, where's the outcry over those books? Tim La Haye and Jerry Jenkins are millionaires now writing fictional accounts inspired by the Bible. The rapture hasn't happened, so how do we know everything that happens in those books is true? We rely on a suspicion of disbelief.
Oh, well, who cares?
Selective beliefs are what Christians and all religion is about.
Isn't it?
I mean, if you believe this and not that. What's the big deal as long as you believe it?