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Date: 03 May 2006 15:05:57
I was reading the BBC website - I seem to do a lot of this - when I come upon an article in which it was announced that the Anglican Church in Sydney will be running a short video in 250 cinemas during screenings of the film of the book of the court trial.
Personally I thought that the book was a load of tosh. It wasn't just a badly written but badly plotted and plagerised piece of nonsense. It was essentially a rewrite of Angels & Demons - his previous book - with just the artist and location changed. The rest, the central character, the attractive foreign assistant and secret catholic society were present. This was a book that seemed to be written as a "tick every box" thriller - you know the type, where the author runs through a list of plot developments and scenes in a set order and thus ticks each box as its done.
Now I've had enough of the hype surrounding the book, both from the author, media, publisher and the church. If you don't want people to see/read something then have an initial protest and then let it die. Public inertia will do the rest. If the cries of "heretical rubbish" hadn't been so consistently shouted then maybe he wouldn't have sold a zillions copies.
Yes, use the various Christian resources to refute the book/film's claims. Tell people that you personally won't go to see it but PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE don't protest outside cinemas. Don't write to newspapers or ring radio shows.
If the film is good then people will go to see it for the entertainment value. If the film is bad then they'll stay away, unless the furore continues and then they'll go out of curiosity.
We, like sheep have gone away. If you don't give the sheep something to follow then they'll go back to quietly grazing instead. No one wants a few thousand sheep descending on them - with the exception of my loveable but sheep obssessed sister!!!