Archive for May, 2006

I just don’t see why we (as Christians) don’t learn from our mistakes…

IN MY OPINION – We helped drive Harry Potter to the craze it is today. Loads of people got on TV, Radio, Church, Newspapers, and said how it was not good for their children and such based upon Biblical principles etc, etc, BUT what we fail to realize each time this happens is we drive curiosity, free media attention, and sales of these things and subjects thru the roof because of our outright stance against it.

The Da Vinci Code (which by the way is a FICTION book) has drove us to a vehement stance against it, all the while doing the same thing for its sales!!! Driving them thru the roof and creating more curiosity and free media to promote it!!!

Do you suppose that if we left it alone people would enjoy it for what it is, FICTION. Not fact, not based on a true story, fiction…Stuff that is made up.

How come we never attacked Lord Of The Rings or Narnia (and I don’t think we should either, just for the record BUT…). They had Magicians, Ghosts, spirit things, evil, and witches (specifically Narnia on witches) and loads more stuff comparable to what was in Harry Potter. People died, there was good and evil (bad).

Makes no sense to excuse a movie just because the author is Christian or not.

All I am asking is pray about these things and make your own judgment and make a stand for yourself, your children, and your family. Then maybe we can control ourselves and quit trying to control others when even the bad media promotes curiousity, drives sales, and gives even more exposure to something that would not have otherwise been that successful.

We as Christians should know why the fiction in this is not biblical from studying God’s word. We should not have to prepare ourselves for something we should already be prepared for…You should study the truth to combat the false, not study the false to prepare yourself for the false.

Did I already say The Da Vinci Code was FICTION?

Fiction: a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact. A fabrication: a deliberately false or improbable account

Once again I love the play on words to bring about a ‘new’ and exciting sandwich menu to a dying heavily calorie and fat laden menu, in my opinion that is.

Just out of my own curiousity I could not get a translation from frescata from Italian, Spanish, French, or Portuguese. So I broke it down and tried again with Fresca (which literally means fresh in all these languages except French). Then I went with ta and got: your in French (which wouldn’t work considering fresca meant nothing), ta meant nothing in Spanish (so that doesn’t work), you in Italian, it to you in Portuguese.

So now lets see what we get…if we compromise between Italian and Portuguese we can get a phrase that says, ‘fresh to you’. Which would work with the rest of the statement, New Frescata Deli Sandwiches.

Once again it is now up to you to investigate to see whether it is worth the ‘hype’ or the Italian/Portuguese interpretation.

New food marketing techniques drive me nuts…can you tell!!!