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15 May 2006, 13:58Russian Church: Da Vinci Code film an ordinary commodity with a bar-code - read the Gospel instead
Moscow, May 15, Interfax - The Da Vinci Code film to be launched in Moscow this week is a ‘mass-cult commodity’ which brings nothing new, a Moscow Patriarchate official believes.
‘Those who want to come to know real Christ are advised to read the Gospel and then to turn to Him with prayer. But those who are used to simply consumer a mass-cult commodity are free to make their own choice’, Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, deputy head of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations, stated.
‘Da Vinci Code will be soon forgotten, and you will receive promotional leaflets about all kinds of commodities including films and books on quasi-religious themes. Do not forget to keep an eye on novelties and chip off banknotes’, he added.
The priest urged to regard the new film as an ordinary commodity ‘with a price tag and a bar code’. ‘It will bring nothing new either to believers or agnostics or atheists. Its idea is old to the limit: to try to justify sin, that is, illicit cohabitation of a man and woman, as much as imputing it to Christ himself’, Father Vsevolod noted.
He said that today Christ is painted on ‘the banners of sexual revolution’, just as attempts were made to present him as ‘an esoteric, a hippie, a revolutionary, a leader of a national liberation movement, etc’.
‘If ad people and filmmakers have set about to deal with (pseudo) spiritual matters, it means that people do feel a religious thirst. Indeed, the most box-office films have not been about Hitler or Voltaire or even George Washington but about Christ. It seems people are pretty sick about secular ideals and idols’, he noted.
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