** Mailing-List Indonesia Nasional Milis PPI-India www.ppi-india.da.ru ** Agreed..... -----Original Message----- From: Carla Annamarie [mailto:Carla.Annamarie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 1:07 PM To: ppiindia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [ppiindia] Da Vinci Code ditarik dari peredaran? im actually disagree with the DVC, but as far as i know church is not threathen by DVC, even have it banned in public..church wont belittle them self by this small disturbance.., i think every one has a right or could read DVC freely, it's not against the law or forbid by church..the church dont have that priviledge right.., only God could be the judge of everything...not man.. Robertus Budiarto <budiartobobby@ya To: ppiindia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx hoo.com> cc: Subject: Re: [ppiindia] Da Vinci Code ditarik dari 03/22/2005 10:15 peredaran? AM Please respond to ppiindia Yah begitulah, sering kali agamawan memang terlalu takut dan overacting, regardless agamanya apa. Di jaman ini masih ada yg mau mencekal buku dan bahkan fatwa mati. Astagafirullah.... Syukurlah sekularisasi (bukan sekularisme) telah cukup baik mengimunkan agama dari penyalahgunaan oleh petualang-petualang politik. Setidaknya di Eropa. Silakan ikuti berita Tempointeraktif mengenai itu. No. 04/XXXIV/21 - 27 Maret 2005 Luar Negeri ---> Vatikan Kontroversi dari Genoa Popularitas Da Vinci Code yang terus berlanjut mulai mencemaskan petinggi Vatikan. Tetap di peringkat novel terlaris setelah lebih dari 100 pekan. --------------------------------- RUANG pertemuan di Balai Kota Genoa, Italia, itu penuh sesak. Kardinal Bertone mengambil tempat di depan dan menghadap hadirin. "Siapa yang sudah membaca Da Vinci Code di sini?" tanya Kardinal. Dan ratusan tangan pun mengacung. Pertemuan yang berlangsung Kamis pekan silam itu bukanlah sebuah misa, tapi debat terbuka tentang novel Da Vinci Code, yang dihadiri oleh masyarakat kota tersebut. Belum sempat Bertone menyembunyikan rasa terkejutnya, belasan pertanyaan lisan dilontarkan secara terbuka: Benarkah Yesus menikah? Mungkinkah Yesus punya anak? Betulkah Gereja menindas peran wanita? Pertanyaan lain disampaikan lebih sopan, lewat secarik kertas kepada Kardinal. Selain ratusan orang di dalam ruangan, semua jendela dipenuhi wajah ingin tahu yang mengintip dari luar. Debat pun berlangsung sekitar tiga jam. Antusiasme yang muncul merupakan rangkaian reaksi setelah dua hari sebelumnya Kardinal menyatakan novel terlaris karya Dan Brown itu sebagai "kebohongan yang memalukan". Ia menganjurkan agar toko buku Katolik menarik novel yang sudah terjual 17 juta eksemplar itu. "Itu mengejutkan sekaligus membuat saya khawatir, karena begitu banyak orang mempercayai kebohongan di dalamnya," kata Kardinal kepada harian Il Giornale. Pendapat Bertone penting dihitung. Sebab, ia orang nomor dua di departemen paling berpengaruh di Vatikan: Kongregasi untuk Doktrin Keimanan. Selama ini Vatikan belum mengambil sikap khusus terhadap novel yang menceritakan Yesus memiliki anak dari hubungannya dengan Maria Magdalena itu. Bertone sendiri menampik bila pendapatnya itu disebut mewakili Takhta Suci. Da Vinci Code (DVC, 2003) merupakan sekuel dari Angels and Demons (2000) yang ditulis Brown dengan menggabungkan gaya thriller detektif dan teori konspirasi. Kisahnya sendiri terpusat pada usaha Robert Langdon, profesor ilmu tentang simbol agama di Universitas Harvard, untuk mengungkap terbunuhnya kurator terkenal Jacques Saunière di Museum Louvre, Paris. Posisinya saat terbunuh seperti posisi dalam lukisan terkenal Leonardo Da Vinci, Manusia Vitruvia. Telanjang dan mengepakkan tangan seperti elang. Novel ini menjadi kontroversi karena menyinggung banyak hal seperti Piala Suci (Holy Grail) yang digunakan Yesus dalam Jamuan Terakhir, peran Maria Magdalena dalam sejarah Kristen, komunitas rahasia Priory of Sion, organisasi Katolik Roma Opus Dei (Latin: Karya Tuhan) yang didirikan oleh Santo Josemariá Escrivá pada 2 Oktober 1928, sampai keturunan Yesus yang masih hidup di Paris. Sejak diluncurkan dua tahun silam, DVC terus bertengger di puncak buku terlaris. Sampai pekan lalu, misalnya, daftar yang dikeluarkan USA Today memperlihatkan novel ini masih di peringkat pertama pada pekan ke-104. Semua tempat yang disebut dalam novel itu menjadi tempat yang dibanjiri turis. "Sekarang muncul citra anak muda yang―seakan―belum modern kalau belum baca DVC. Sedangkan keluarga minimal harus memiliki satu eksemplar di rumah," kata Bertone mengecam. Sebuah situs www.catholicanswers perlu mewanti-wanti umat Katolik agar waspada terhadap buku tersebut. "Meskipun fiksi, karena menyatakan bahwa sejumlah fakta yang dimuat berdasarkan riset ilmiah, hal itu memberikan kesan ke pembaca bahwa cerita yang ditulis adalah fakta,'' kata situs itu. Buku-buku yang muncul menjelaskan "kesalahan" DVC sedikitnya sudah sepuluh judul, termasuk Da Vinci Code Decoded karya sejarawan Martin Lunn yang tinggal di Barcelona, Spanyol. Sabtu pekan lalu, film dokumenter berjudul sama―termasuk wawancara dengan Dan Brown―diputar di Perpustakaan Pendidikan Nasional, Jakarta Pusat, dan disesaki penonton. Namun keberatan Bertone terhadap DVC mendapat tanggapan cukup keras dari Monsignor Jose Maria Pinheiro. "Itu pendapat pribadinya, bukan Gereja," ujar Pinheiro, yang baru tiga pekan silam dicalonkan sebagai Uskup Sao Paulo oleh Paus Yohanes Paulus II. "Saya tidak melihat perlunya novel ini dicekal." Jadi, kontroversi akan berlanjut. Akmal Nasery Basral (Il Giornale, BBC, AFP) Ari Condro <masarcon@xxxxxxx> wrote: Inget novel "Jomblo" tulisan Aditya Mulya, Nah, ada berita baru, kagak ada hubungannya sich ama si Adit. Kabarnya Da Vinci Code, yang menurut mbah Gigi masih kalah seru ama tulisannya mbah Stephen itu bakal ditarik atas perintah otoritas gereja Vatikan. Dianggap blasphemy. Wah, ini gaya siapa tuh ..... yak .... :P [ sambil ngelirik abah HMNA ... blink .. blink ... ] Hare gene getu loh ....... Jadi pengen tahu berita selanjutnya ... nyam nyam. salam, Ari Condro 92.0636 0812-8460316 ==================================================== From: Adhitya Mulya To: pasarbuku@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 2:46 PM Subject: [PasarBuku] da vinci code ditarik dari peredaran? Tadi denger dari milis tetangga bahwa buku da vinci code akan ditarik dari peredaran (di seluruh dunia) berdasarkan instruksi dari vatikan. mau minta kepastian saja, apakah benar adanya isu ini? --- Regards, Adhitya +225 05871731 / http://adhitya.blogspot.com ==================================================== Posted on Sun, Mar. 20, 2005 Vatican denounces 'The Da Vinci Code' Cardinal blasts anti-Catholic attitude of book BY DANIEL WILLIAMS Washington Post ROME - As is just about everywhere else in the world, Rome is awash in editions of "The Da Vinci Code," the blockbuster whodunit with a narrative that includes a Vatican cover-up of an explosive theological secret: Jesus was married. Despite the heretical plot twist, in which Jesus had a child by the wife, Mary Magdalene, Dan Brown's novel was on sale at the bookstore of Gemelli Polyclinic, the Rome hospital where Pope John Paul II underwent a tracheotomy last month and spent 18 days recovering before being released last Sunday. Well, enough is enough. Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, once a top dogma enforcer in Vatican City and now archbishop of Genoa, broke the Vatican's silence on the book Wednesday and told Vatican Radio that no one should read it and certainly Catholic bookstores should stop selling it. "Don't buy and don't read that novel," he said. And in remarks to Il Giornale, a conservative newspaper, Bertone declared, "There's a big anti-Catholic prejudice." He added that the book "aims to discredit the church and its history through gross and absurd manipulations." Bertone explained why, two years after the novel's debut, the church ought to be putting its foot down. Too many people are taking the book's mix of art, architecture, secret societies, weird symbolism and hocus-pocus as - if you'll excuse the expression - the Gospel truth. "You can't be a modern youth without having read it," Bertone said. "The book is everywhere. There is a very real risk that many people who read it will believe that the fables it contains are true." Until two years ago, he belonged to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the official defender of orthodoxy in the Vatican. Brown has disputed criticism that his novel is anti-Christian. References to Christianity have been popping up all over the mass media. Last year's mega-hit by Mel Gibson, "The Passion of the Christ," about Jesus' last hours before and during the Crucifixion, was praised by the Vatican, where it was privately screened for the pope. Vatican spokesmen said the pontiff gave it two thumbs up, but they later retracted that report and said he doesn't do movie reviews. In London, Madame Tussauds, the wax museum, mounted a Nativity scene with soccer star David Beckham and wife Victoria, aka Posh Spice, standing in for Joseph and Mary. Leonardo da Vinci's "The Last Supper" - used as evidence of the Jesus-Magdalene liaison in Brown's book - also took a hit. In an irreverent ad campaign by the French fashion house Marithe and Francois Girbaud, sultry women in chic casuals were arranged at a table in postures similar to the Apostles' in the painting - except that in John's place, a shirtless man in low-slung jeans slouches. French Catholics sued because the poster "did great injury to Catholics" by representing the Last Supper "in denigrating conditions." A judge banned the poster as "an aggressive act of intrusion of people's innermost beliefs." Lawyers for the fashion company had argued that the posters were a parody of a painting, not a religious event, and wondered aloud why the judge did not ban "The Da Vinci Code." In any case, the heretical horse is way out of the barn. Eighteen million copies of "The Da Vinci Code" have been sold worldwide. A movie starring Tom Hanks is in the works. Tourists pester guides at the exhibit of da Vinci's "Last Supper" in Milan, asking them to point out the Mary Magdalene figure. Guides explain repeatedly that the figure is that of a youthful John. "There are two reasons the church needs to speak out on this issue," said Massimo Introvigne, director of the Center on New Religious Studies, a Catholic research organization in Rome. "Dan Brown talks about facts, and things in his book are not facts. And second, I am astonished by the number of Italians who tell me their faith has been shaken." Riffs on the life of Jesus outside orthodox teaching are nothing new - either in books, in Hollywood or, for that matter, in the most ancient of Christian documents. Of course, there was Martin Scorsese's film "The Last Temptation of Christ," in which Jesus on the cross imagines an alternative life of married bliss with - who else? - Mary Magdalene. Before that, there was "Jesus Christ Superstar," the Andrew Lloyd Webber rock opera that also hinted at an affair between Jesus and Mary Magdalene, although not so much as to offend. Vatican officials declared it acceptable entertainment for the Vatican's millennium celebration. In the early centuries of Christianity, religious leaders grappled with various accounts of the life of Jesus, some of which were at odds with orthodoxy. Was he a man, prophet or God, or all of the above? In the 4th century, Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria, ordered scores of manuscripts attributed to followers of Jesus destroyed. But disobedient monks buried the versions in clay jars and some were discovered centuries later. Among them was a manuscript called the Gospel of Mary, attributed to Mary Magdalene. It suggests she was one of the chosen followers of Jesus and an equal, at least, to the others. No mention of marriage is made in any of these, nor in the orthodox Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke or John, and it is the titillation aspect of "The Da Vinci Code" that, in part, upsets church leaders and scholars. "Scandal is what such books are all about," said Bernardo Estrada, a teacher of the New Testament in Rome and a member of Opus Dei, a worldwide Catholic lay organization with strong Vatican connections. Opus Dei is one of the villains in "The Da Vinci Code." It is portrayed trying to suppress knowledge that Jesus left a lineage on Earth and meant for Mary Magdalene to be head of the church. "It's an attack on the church as obscurantist, and Opus Dei is just a vehicle for the attack," he said. But Estrada doesn't think "The Da Vinci Code" ought to be banned. Rather, priests need to read it so they can talk about it. "Anyone with a historical and religious base can refute it. I rather liked it; it's a good thriller," he said. "There are two reasons the church needs to speak out. . Dan Brown talks about facts, and things in his book are not facts. 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