Reggie Weems

As everybody in America now knows from both its supporters and critics, The Da Vinci Code will soon be at theaters.  Christians must remember that Hollywood makes movies to make money so they are unconcerned if you are s supporter or critic; or whether you go to see the movie - as long as you are talking about the movie to someone (and hopefully many people) who will see it.  For me, the book and film are so blatantly fictional from start to finish that it’s really uninteresting and unworthy of all the support or criticism it is receiving.  But I know that you are being bombarded with questions about it so - though minimially - Heritage will corporately discuss the matter. 

Barbara Nicolosi recently had an interesting persepctive on the movie that I endorse and hope you will consider.  She wrote:

It is a movie which begins from the point that Jesus was a fraud. He was not only not Divine, he was less than a man, who didn’t die and rise to save humanity, but rather settled down in Nazareth suburbia and fathered children. Oh yes, and the Christian Church which made up all the salvific Messiah stuff about Him is a sham association of megalomaniacal conspirators whose unifying principles are in the oppression of women.

I have, thus far, been campaigning for a kind of non-campaign as regards The Da Vinci Code. I was thinking that we should all just agree to ignore it, and put our efforts into praying for the people who hate Jesus and us, His disciples, so much that they would make this film. I was reluctant to throw any free p.r. at the project by speaking about it publicly, as that is all that the studio wants here. The people promoting the movie want - with every fiber of their obscenely well-compensated beings - that we make this film an event.
Folks, there is no dialogue here. Basically because they wanted to bash Christians. (Quick, someone assure me that Time and Newsweek and the NY Times, et al. will NOT be running reviews or ads for The Da Vinci Code because it is such an offensive caricature of the central figure of a major world religion!)
ANYWAY…. here’s what I think we should do. I am hereby announcing my personal “How to Respond to Da Vinci Code Strategy.” And the answer is to go to the movies on May 19, 2006. Every Christian who loves Jesus, your mission, if you will accept it is to buy movie tickets. We need to bring our kids, our church groups, our youth ministry clubs, our seniors groups - and buy tickets for the homeless for after we feed them. And we all need to go to see another movie, Over the Hedge!

Let’s make this little movie the biggest release of the year. Let’s have DVC positively dwarfed in the weekend box-office, because all of us dutifully marched off to register our vote for the other movie opening that weekend. It’s brilliant, mais oui?

Over the Hedge! Over the Hedge! More screens for Over the Hedge!”