My Entertainment is More important than Integrity
Integrity, a thing of the past for most mainstream Entertainment, or notable figures in society etc.....
Is there anyone you know, whose integrity are you willing to defend, by so much as refusing to see a movie, or buy a book?
Imagine this analogy,
Your an adopted Kid. The man who adopted you, and you call Dad, is WELL KNOWN....lets say a Coach at the Jr and High Schools in a small town...(~13K). Everyone knows Him. And they have known of him for years. He's been there forever. He is even known internationally for his methods of Coaching. Many want to "copy" him, but have not been able to do so. Dad dies early. Many morn the loss.
Then enter the new kid. He was not into sports. He preferred Historical literature. He was good at it too. But now, all of a sudden, he picks your 'deceased' Dad as a subject. He has gathered "Historical" data in abundance, dates and times that the entire town and even most of the international community are familiar with. He writes a "Novel". He Claims events, pictures, art and societies in this "Novel" are real - Factual. But some of the "items" he refers to as Facts, are not. The story line he says is up to you to determine the nature of it's truth. He refuses to state in any interview, or on his website that the story is a lie, a mis-representation, or false in any manor of speaking.
He twists the name and life of your Dad into a story line that's a shocker, a real attention grabber.
(Like the nightly news, no gruesome stuff to report, so they tell you about the Shop Murders that happened ten years ago....)
Instead of a Coach who was a standup guy, wonderful family man, community supporter, etc.... This story shows him as a child molester, who was really a homosexual predator; he beat his wife and kids and sold drugs to the kids he molested at the school to support his other family just across the state line. They took their inheritance and moved to France and became the Salvation Lineage
The book is a smash. Everyone wants to read it and talk about it. The People who knew your Dad are of mixed opinions about supporting this financially, by buying the book.
Would you, who know him personally, want to buy this book?
What about you, if you were the Adopted Kid? This person took you in, gave you hope, a new life. Would you want to glorify the man trying to make a buck off of your Dad's memory?
So it's Fiction. You tell everyone it's fiction. You know it's lies. Many of the towns people know it's LIES also. But there are those who knew your Dad casually. They come to you and continually ask, "Is this possible? Could it be true? How do these facts about your Dad make you feel?
How about it? Do you willingly deny Christ for fun? Fun that you are paying others to create? Sort of funding it for the World?
You don't have to tear this author down, or his book. But why on earth would you support it?
Maybe cause what He did for you, isn't that important? Maybe your just blind to what it means to have integrity. If you have rules, they must be set. If you keep bending, one day, the rules are meaningless. Then your kids won't honor you either.
Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code is like this analogy. Perhaps Da Vinci did create some stuff about his own failure to believe in the Truth of Christ. He's met his maker already. Are you ready to meeet yours?
The Truth will set you free. Talking about your faith in your Dad, Christ and supporting Him and that faith DOES bring Glory to Him.
All Praise Honor and Glory be to God, His Son whose Sacrifice was for me, and His Holy Spirit, Who I hope will dwell in me from this day forth. I also PRay for those, who claim to be the adopted, but don't Stand for Him.
I wonder what Tom Hanks' faith is.
Is there anyone you know, whose integrity are you willing to defend, by so much as refusing to see a movie, or buy a book?
Imagine this analogy,
Your an adopted Kid. The man who adopted you, and you call Dad, is WELL KNOWN....lets say a Coach at the Jr and High Schools in a small town...(~13K). Everyone knows Him. And they have known of him for years. He's been there forever. He is even known internationally for his methods of Coaching. Many want to "copy" him, but have not been able to do so. Dad dies early. Many morn the loss.
Then enter the new kid. He was not into sports. He preferred Historical literature. He was good at it too. But now, all of a sudden, he picks your 'deceased' Dad as a subject. He has gathered "Historical" data in abundance, dates and times that the entire town and even most of the international community are familiar with. He writes a "Novel". He Claims events, pictures, art and societies in this "Novel" are real - Factual. But some of the "items" he refers to as Facts, are not. The story line he says is up to you to determine the nature of it's truth. He refuses to state in any interview, or on his website that the story is a lie, a mis-representation, or false in any manor of speaking.
He twists the name and life of your Dad into a story line that's a shocker, a real attention grabber.
(Like the nightly news, no gruesome stuff to report, so they tell you about the Shop Murders that happened ten years ago....)
Instead of a Coach who was a standup guy, wonderful family man, community supporter, etc.... This story shows him as a child molester, who was really a homosexual predator; he beat his wife and kids and sold drugs to the kids he molested at the school to support his other family just across the state line. They took their inheritance and moved to France and became the Salvation Lineage
The book is a smash. Everyone wants to read it and talk about it. The People who knew your Dad are of mixed opinions about supporting this financially, by buying the book.
Would you, who know him personally, want to buy this book?
What about you, if you were the Adopted Kid? This person took you in, gave you hope, a new life. Would you want to glorify the man trying to make a buck off of your Dad's memory?
So it's Fiction. You tell everyone it's fiction. You know it's lies. Many of the towns people know it's LIES also. But there are those who knew your Dad casually. They come to you and continually ask, "Is this possible? Could it be true? How do these facts about your Dad make you feel?
How about it? Do you willingly deny Christ for fun? Fun that you are paying others to create? Sort of funding it for the World?
You don't have to tear this author down, or his book. But why on earth would you support it?
Maybe cause what He did for you, isn't that important? Maybe your just blind to what it means to have integrity. If you have rules, they must be set. If you keep bending, one day, the rules are meaningless. Then your kids won't honor you either.
Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code is like this analogy. Perhaps Da Vinci did create some stuff about his own failure to believe in the Truth of Christ. He's met his maker already. Are you ready to meeet yours?
The Truth will set you free. Talking about your faith in your Dad, Christ and supporting Him and that faith DOES bring Glory to Him.
All Praise Honor and Glory be to God, His Son whose Sacrifice was for me, and His Holy Spirit, Who I hope will dwell in me from this day forth. I also PRay for those, who claim to be the adopted, but don't Stand for Him.
I wonder what Tom Hanks' faith is.
posted by The Way at 7:32 AM
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Tommy Hanks says The Da Vinci Code is a good way to lead people to Christ! Hah! Smell what you shuvolen!
Leonardo da Vinci was a Renaissance artist. Renaissance means 'rebirth'.
The Renaissance was in the 15th and 16th century. During this time, lots of changes took place in art and in people's lives.
Other famous Renaissance artists were Michelangelo, Raphael, Donatello and Titian.
Leonardo was very interested in the science of nature. He did experiments to find out how water flows and how birds fly.
He loved animals and was a vegetarian. He hated war even though he designed weapons like catapults.
His early designs for flying machines probably wouldn't have worked but were based on important flying science. Planes weren't invented until 400 years later.
Before surnames existed, people were known by their first name and the place they lived. Leonardo da Vinci means Leonardo from Vinci. Vinci is a small town in Tuscany, Italy.
Even as a young boy, Leonardo did things differently. While other left handed kids his age were forced to write with their right hands, Leonardo refused. Instead, he decided to write backwards - people could only read his words using a mirror. {He hated the Institution}
Da Vinci cartoon by Kath Walker
He got his first job as a studio boy for Andrea del Verrocchio, a famous painter and sculptor. After he became an artist in his own right, he moved to Milan.
Then he began working as an engineer, architect and scientist. He was great at them all but these weren't his only talents. He was also an excellent singer and musician. Not happy with being perfect himself, he also designed the ideal man (left). He worked out that the length of a man's outspread arms matches his height.
He died in 1519 but his art is more popular than ever and his scientific discoveries are still important today.
CNN: Scientists analyzed the portrait of the Mona Lisa, a woman with famously mixed emotions, hoping to unlock her smile. They applied emotion recognition software that measures a person's mood by examining features such as the curve of the lips and the crinkles around the eyes.
The findings? Mona Lisa was 83 percent happy, 9 percent disgusted, 6 percent fearful, and 2 percent angry, according to the British weekly "New Scientist."
Still, scientists will probably never know what made her feel the way she did.
Clipped from The Barna Group of Ventura, California) and website address (www.barna.org) http://www.barna.org/FlexPage.aspx?Page=BarnaUpdateNarrow&BarnaUpdateID=238 According to the Barna research, The Da Vinci Code has been read “cover to cover” by roughly 45 million adults in the U.S. – that’s one out of every five adults (20%). That makes it the most widely read book with a spiritual theme, other than the Bible, to have penetrated American homes.
Perceived Value of the Content
Among the adults who have read the entire book, one out of every four (24%) said the book was either “extremely,” “very,” or “somewhat” helpful in relation to their “personal spiritual growth or understanding.” That translates to about 11 million adults who consider The Da Vinci Code to have been a helpful spiritual document.
To place that figure in context, the Barna study revealed that another recently published popular novel about Jesus Christ – Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt , written by Anne Rice – was deemed to be spiritually helpful by 72% of its readers – three times the proportion who lauded Dan Brown’s book.
Changing People’s Beliefs
The study also explored whether or not the book caused people to change some of their religious beliefs. Among the 45 million who have read The Da Vinci Code , only 5% - which represents about two million adults – said that they changed any of the beliefs or religious perspectives because of the book’s content.
“Before reading The Da Vinci Code people had a full complement of beliefs already in place, some firmly held and others loosely held,” explained George Barna, the author of numerous books about faith and culture. “Upon reading the book, many people encountered information that confirmed what they already believed. [Lowell - Lies?] Many readers found information that served to connect some of their beliefs in new ways. But few people changed their pre-existing beliefs because of what they read in the novel. And even fewer people approached the book with a truly open mind regarding the controversial matters in question, and emerged with a new theological perspective. The book generates controversy and discussions, but it has not revolutionized the way that Americans think about Jesus, the Church or the Bible.”
“On the other hand,” the researcher continued, “any book that alters one or more theological views among two million people is not to be dismissed lightly. That’s more people than will change any of their beliefs as a result of exposure to the teaching offered at all of the nation’s Christian churches combined during a typical week.”
The people most likely to have altered their religious views in response to the book’s content were Hispanics (17% of those who read the book), women (three times more likely than male readers to do so), and liberals (twice as likely as conservatives). Upscale adults were also much more likely than downscale individuals to shift their thinking based on the novel.
11 million adults consider The Da Vinci Code to have been a helpful spiritual document.
2 million changed their Spiritual View.
WOW. Fiction Dude. God have Mercy on Us.
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