{"id":446,"date":"2006-05-22T08:48:01","date_gmt":"2006-05-22T16:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=446"},"modified":"2006-05-22T08:49:32","modified_gmt":"2006-05-22T16:49:32","slug":"the-da-vinci-code-whats-all-the-fuss-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2006\/05\/22\/the-da-vinci-code-whats-all-the-fuss-about\/","title":{"rendered":"The Da Vinci Code &#8211; What&#8217;s All the Fuss About?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"graphics\/listen.gif\"\/> <ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/64.27.9.54\/archive\/index.php?l=8&p=Uprising_Daily_Edition\/2006_05_22_berlet.MP3&m=1\">Listen to  this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/64.27.9.54\/archive\/index.php?l=8&p=Uprising_Daily_Edition\/2006_05_22_uprising.MP3&m=1\">Listen to  the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=55% src=\"http:\/\/us.news3.yimg.com\/us.i2.yimg.com\/p\/afp\/20060520\/capt.sge.tqd19.200506063148.photo00.photo.default-512x341.jpg?x=380&#038;y=253&#038;sig=ENGq7JIjFgiB7K.rV1elwQ--\" alt=\"\" \/><em>GUEST: Chip Berlet, Senior Analyst at Political Research Associates, and author of &#8220;Right-Wing Populism in America&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The Da Vinci Code&#8217; has had one of the biggest opening weekends in box office history &#8211; $224 million worldwide. The highly controversial film is based on the best selling novel by Dan Brown and has been picketed by critics. The premise of the film  suggests that Jesus Christ married Mary Magdalene, had a child by her and members of a religious order then tried to cover it up. The Da Vinci Code has already had already broken box office records in Italy, home of the Vatican. Members of a Catholic group called Christian Militants staged demonstrations outside some cinemas in central Rome over the weekend chanting slogans including: &#8220;Dan Brown, remember you will also be judged by Christ.&#8221; In fact the Vatican has called the movie and book a work of fiction and have not called for it to be banned. But various conservative Christian groups in South Korea, Thailand, India and France have protested the film, and planned boycotts and hunger strikes, and attempted to block screenings.  Samoa, Lebanon and Jordan have banned the film, Thailand has censored part of the film, and the Philippines has issued an X certificate for the film.<\/p>\n<p>Read Chip Berlet&#8217;s blog at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talk2action.org\">www.talk2action.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Sonali&#8217;s Subversive Thought for the Day: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.&#8221; &#8212; Albert Einstein <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUEST: Chip Berlet, Senior Analyst at Political Research Associates, and author of &#8220;Right-Wing Populism in America&#8221; &#8216;The Da Vinci Code&#8217; has had one of the biggest opening weekends in box office history &#8211; $224 million worldwide. The highly controversial film is based on the best selling novel by Dan Brown and has been picketed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}