ON THE DA VINCI CODE and THE BROTHERS GRIMM...

Ok, there has been a literal FLOOD of stuff coming out countering the Da Vinci Code book and movie from Christian circles. None of them to this date has countered the central argument of the book, that Christ really extended his kingly line through Mary Magdalene and fostered a line of French kings known as the Merovingians.

This is answered quite simply and succinctly from scripture; In Genesis 49 Jacob tells his sons that the sceptre (read kingly line) will not depart from Judah till Shiloh comes. What he is saying is that after Christ comes there is no more need to keep the extensive records that the Jews did to establish the line of the Messiah. Therefore the argument that Christ was to extend his kingdom (Holy Blood, Holy Grail) is wrongheaded from the start! The Templars never found the records of the lineages of the Jews because in 70 A. D. the temple and all that was destroyed! It just wasn't needed anymore.

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Next up to bat; "The Brother's Grimm" starring Heath Ledger and Matt Damon...

I am BIG fan of Terry Gilliam so I was looking forward to this with a lot of anticipation. But it is one of the most thoroughly anti-christian movies I have seen in a long time. It begins with a "pagan myth" that is quite ingrained in our society, that the Christians persecuted and ruined the old ways and religion, therefore the forest rebelled, etc., we all need to return to the "Old Religion" and "earth friendly" ways (where's Al Gore in this movie?) Problem is that the way most of our European ancestors "made friends" with the earth was to sacrifice someone or a child to guarantee a good harvest. Katherine Briggs chronicles this in her book "The Vanishing People", a study of fairy lore.

So when the early missionaries came to pagan Europe, they found people willing and ready to be FREED from enslavement to the "Old Ways". Do the modern Wiccans REALLY want the "Old Religion" back?

Gal 4:9 But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?