Just for that, I give you my Firefly icon. I love River. So much.
And yeah, I really should read it. I guess my disdain for jumping on bandwagons of the pop-culture sort has actually inhibited me here.
*nods* What you're talking about is the more Protestant slant. Catholics tend to hype the "mortal and divine" bit (which encompasses the Ressurection), Protestants tend to focus more on the Ressurection itself, I've found. Even though I'm not particularly religious, when I debate theology I tend to come off with a Catholic slant simply because that's the theology I was taught about for four years of my life, and thus the knowledge I feel most comfortable debating with.
you know another thing that's crazy and way overblown about this whole Da Vinci Code thing? we were in Barnes&Noble the other day and there were over a dozen books related to the Da Vinci Code. Literally. Completely ridiculous. it's not that big a deal, people... *rolls eyes at all the hype*
I know! Heck, the reason I wrote this post in the first place is because there was a newspaper article on protests showing up everywhere in the US...and friends everywhere in the US corroborated this for me o_O
Honestly, Dan Brown is some sort of genius...but for an entirely different reason than some people think he is XD He's managed to make what i've heard is a passable-at-best thriller into a national bestseller and spawner of a million guides, all by knowing which cultural buttons to press. And all the while, these people don't seem to realize that he probably intended the very controversy they continue to intensify. After all, nothing gets people riled up like politics and religion. He probably never thought it would get this big, but heck, if I were writing it, I definitely would have been like, "Ooh, this is gonna get discussed!"
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And yeah, I really should read it. I guess my disdain for jumping on bandwagons of the pop-culture sort has actually inhibited me here.
*nods* What you're talking about is the more Protestant slant. Catholics tend to hype the "mortal and divine" bit (which encompasses the Ressurection), Protestants tend to focus more on the Ressurection itself, I've found. Even though I'm not particularly religious, when I debate theology I tend to come off with a Catholic slant simply because that's the theology I was taught about for four years of my life, and thus the knowledge I feel most comfortable debating with.
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Honestly, Dan Brown is some sort of genius...but for an entirely different reason than some people think he is XD He's managed to make what i've heard is a passable-at-best thriller into a national bestseller and spawner of a million guides, all by knowing which cultural buttons to press. And all the while, these people don't seem to realize that he probably intended the very controversy they continue to intensify. After all, nothing gets people riled up like politics and religion. He probably never thought it would get this big, but heck, if I were writing it, I definitely would have been like, "Ooh, this is gonna get discussed!"
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