Chew the Fat

I just got back from The Da Vinci Code. It was crap. The only saving grace is Ian McKellan.

What I did find interesting was this idea so many have that if you show some kind of blemish, or even cover-up, in the formation of orthodox Christianity, it will ruin the whole thing.

If this whole Jesus blood line were true, most evidence suggests that it is a load of rubbish, would it really make one iota if difference to Christians? Would it, as the movie suggests, ‘Cause the greatest crisis of faith the world has ever seen’? Of course not.
There are many issues of ambiguity about the historical Jesus; there are the gospels, the dates, the epistles, the New Testament Cannon and the creation of orthodox Christianity. These are not hidden, they are public record, yet they barley disturb any from their faith.

Christianity is in itself a living thing, people believe Jesus is the Son of God not only because of what they read in history but because of the things they have seen happen around them when they apply his teachings and try to live what they have read. Most of Christianity is not a faith dependent on relics and intricacies. It is about testimony and a living church, it is about peoples lives being changed by something beyond them, something unexplainable.

I find it interesting that every few years Hollywood will try to cash in on the theme of Church relics and cover-ups. It is portrayed as an issue that could change the world. In my view, all this does is mirror the lack of understanding out there about what Christianity is all about.