Da Vinci Code

Wow, it's already Friday. Man the days go by so fast and I don't even think about updating this thing. Finally blogging is loosening its iron grip on me! I have spent the entire day reading a history book, and will continue to do so until around 10pm tonight, when we are all heading out to see The Da Vinci Code. Should be interesting to see how they decided to make that book into a movie. I was not a huge fan of the book, it was a good read, definitely a page turner, but I was irritated by how Brown was able to blur the line between fact and fiction to the point that it was nearly indistinguishable. Of course, I suppose that just means he's a talented writer and researcher.

In any case I find all the hullabaloo about the movie a bit overblown - it's a work of fiction, nothing more. Any Christian with half a brain should read the Da Vinci Code as nothing more than a bit of light reading, a mystery thriller, because that's what it is - if you're shaken up by a work of fiction asserting that Jesus was married or has a bloodline that still exists today, then you've got a problem much bigger than the assertions being made.

Although I have to say I was more than a little offended by what Ian McKellan said about the Bible in an interview on MSNBC. Course I shouldn't expect anything different from a man who rips Leviticus out of the Bibles placed by Gideons in every hotel room he stays.

Important little tidbit: the whole "Jesus surviviing the resurrection" thing is not actually a premise of the book, at least not that I remember. Which is exactly why Tom Hanks looks so confused when Lauer spits that out. Just another example of Matt Lauer's outstandingly (in)accurate reporting.