why mona lisa smiles

"is it possible that this *demonic* show can be a box office hit?!!?!"
- anonymous comment from someone at a talk on the da vinci code

frankly, i'm appalled at the response. it's childish (coming from a university student, no less) and smacks of legalism. and it only goes to show that this person misunderstood, or did not listen to, what the speaker was trying to tell us for the past hour.

friends, as we all know, the da vinci code movie is coming to us. and i encourage everyone to watch it. watch it with an open mind, and think carefully about your perceptions of who Christ is, what all the fuss is about, etc.

i do not subscribe to whatever brown wrote, and my argument (aside from all the academic and highly theological ones that scholars write) is simple:

the book is classified as fiction. check the book.

you simply don't take a work of fiction and treat it for real. it's like watching a movie about a hidden volcano under los angeles and telling me that there is really a volcano under the city.

of course, there are other arguments to contradict whatever brown wrote, but that i'll leave to the scholars and established academics.

in short, my response to the da vinci code is just to take it in with an open mind. it is a book worth mulling over: not over whether Jesus really married Mary Magdeline, but on the more important things such as who Jesus really is.

if you prefer to think on frivilous issues such as the former, i'll just say: God help you.

i apologise for the choppiness of this post. i just wanted to quickly pen down my thoughts before going to sleep. hehe. good night everyone.