My desktop is still down. For 3 weeks already. For those who know, it is my only source of entertainment apart from the TV. So now I have to use my sis laptop.

Anyway I came across an article in Life! on Friday. The National Council of Churches of Singapore (NCCS) has decided to call for a ban on the Da Vinci Code movie, coming in May. I don't like this decision.

Firstly, because I want to watch it. Secondly, because my friends and a whole lot of people also want to watch it. Thirdly and most importantly, it has value as a movie with a anti-orthodox Christianity theme. It is one of the few things that make people (albeit a small percentage) who reads the book or watch the movie to evaluate the orthodoxy of the Christian church, the cannonization, the validity of the bible, the deity and manhood of Christ Jesus, the resurrection, whether paganism affected the deveopment of Christianity and a whole lot of other issues. Even I myself was called into investigation of my religion's roots, which otherwise I may not have been bothered to do so. So Da Vinci Code was a book that made people think and ask questions, and make people defend them with answers. I feel that the movie will do the same.

It would be better for such a movie to penetrate the mass audience and make them think, rather than have people who are apathetic to religion, and ultimately, the Truth.

Seek the Truth is motto of the film. The NCCS should not deny people to seek it.


"I was like 'So I'm playing Da Vinci?'" - Tom Hanks, who's acting as Robert Langdon.