"People think of the Incarnation in mythological terms, by which I mean, God turns into a creature or a creature turns into God and that isn’t it, that’s more mythological language. Because we would say with the Council of Chalcedon that in Jesus, divinity and humanity come together but without mixing, mingling, or confusion. Meaning, God doesn’t stop being God and turn into a creature nor does the creature stop being a creature. So the humanity of Jesus is not compromised, overwhelmed, destroyed…but rather we say God takes to Himself a human nature to use for his own iconic purposes. What that means is, I am fully human, I’m more human the more God comes close to me. God’s not my competitor, that I have to give-way for God to move into my life, no. I become fully myself as God enters my life. “The glory of God is a human being fully alive,” a line from Irenaeus from the 2nd century, and that’s one of those lines that you say, the whole of Christianity is contained in that line. God’s glory is not that we be denigrated. One of the problems with Luther is that Luther fell into that more competitive view: If God get’s all the glory, well then I gotta get none of the glory, I’ve gotta be emptied out. And I say no, with Irenaeus, the more glory God gets the more fully alive I am, because God rejoices in my being fully alive. And that’s the upshot of the Incarnation, is that God wants to divinize the world. He wants to draw the world into His life and the means chosen is the Incarnation in Jesus of Nazareth."

"Hereto I adjoin a parable. There were a certain man and wife; the woman by accident lost an eye, and was sorely troubled thereat. Her husband then said to her, “Wife, why are you troubled? “She answered, “It is not the loss of my eye that troubles me, but the thought that you may love me less on account of that loss.” He said, “I love you all the same.” Not long after he put one of his own eyes out, and came to his wife and said, “Wife, that you may believe I love you, I have made myself like you: I, too, now, have only one eye.” So men could hardly believe that God loved them till God put one of His eyes out, that is took upon Himself human nature, and was made man."

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

quicksummary:

Dan Brown makes a lot of shit up about how Jesus and Mary Magdalene had kids and how the Catholic church is coming to kill you all. 

"A century or two hence Spiritualism may be a tradition and Socialism may be a tradition and Christian Science may be a tradition. But Catholicism will not be a tradition. It will still be a nuisance
and a new and dangerous thing."

"Don’t you talk about Christianity. Don’t you dare to say one word, white or black, about it. Christianity is, as far as you are concerned, a horrible mystery. Keep clear of it, keep silent upon it, as you would upon an abomination. It is a thing that has made men slay and torture each other; and you will never know why. It is a thing that has made men do evil that good might come; and you will never understand the evil, let alone the good. Christianity is a thing that could only make you vomit, till you are other than you are. I would not justify it to you even if I could. Hate it, in God’s name, as Turnbull does, who is a man. It is a monstrous thing, for which men die."

Thor

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Loki contrives to save Asgard from his warmongering, idiot brother Thor.

The movie doesn’t get named after him.