Da Vinci Code

I can't get very excited about the Da Vinci Code movie, or book. In fact just writing that sentence makes me tired. However, I do like what John Miller wrote in today's Wall Street Journal:

The amazing thing is that church leaders, like those at Campus Crusade, have been among the most aggressive contributors to this enterprise. Instead of acting like the mad-as-hell crusaders of the recent past--a strategy that probably has backfired more often than it has succeeded--they are now assuming the role of debunking missionaries.

This marks a sea change in attitudes from a decade ago, when the American Family Association began its much-ballyhooed boycott of Disney for a variety of affronts, including its ties to Miramax, which was peddling movies such as the impious "Dogma" and the gay-themed "Priest." (The AFA's boycott actually ended to virtually no fanfare last September, in the wake of the Disney-Miramax divorce. Disney's release of "The Chronicles of Narnia" also helped smooth relations with the religious.) The content of "The Da Vinci Code" is arguably more objectionable to Christians than anything that ever carried the Miramax label, but the AFA isn't telling its flock to stay away from theaters. An article on its Web site even suggests that readers see the movie so that they'll know how to defend their faith. The AFA is also hawking "The Da Vinci Delusion," a DVD produced by Coral Ridge Ministries.

Read the whole thing.