{"id":4676,"date":"2006-02-11T21:27:08","date_gmt":"2006-02-11T21:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/02\/she-shoots.html"},"modified":"2006-02-11T21:27:08","modified_gmt":"2006-02-11T21:27:08","slug":"she-shoots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/02\/she-shoots.html","title":{"rendered":"She shoots…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…she scores. Barbara Nicolosi on this week’s DVC events:<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Da Vinci Code<\/em> is so ridiculous in its premises, that it is giving it a false gravity to even take it seriously enough so as to argue about it. ["And tomorrow, the Christians will be offering a hermenutical exigesis of moral praxis as can be gleaned from next weeks episode of WWF Smackdown<\/em>. Ahem."] Yeah, let’s all find a starting point for dialogue in the notion that a secret coterie of albino monks has been mythmaking about Jesus’ Divinity for 2,000 years. No, you go first.<\/p>\n

Now, Christians being coaxed into writing anti-DVC<\/em> pieces on a stupid web site (like, well, this one) are meekly accepting that they are being given "a seat at the table" in some grand cultural discussion. Duped! There is no seat folks. There is no discussion. What there is, is a few p.r. folks in Hollywood taking mondo big bucks from Sony Pictures, to deliver legions of well-meaning Christians into subsidizing a movie that makes their own Savior out to be a sham.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n

What she said. Twice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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