October 8, 2008
Movie Review: An American Carol by Jenny Hatch
My two sons and I were at the opening night showing of An American Carol on friday night. We went to the 7PM show and really enjoyed finally seeing the movie. The boys, aged twelve and fourteen laughed the whole way through and I just about wet my pants I was laughing so hard.
On monday my oldest daughter, aged nineteen, expressed a desire to see the movie, so all four of us went to the five o'clock showing. The theatre was not as full as friday night but there were still dozens of people there to watch the movie, including a couple from our local church congregation. Since our Mormon friends tend to lean left here in Boulder County, it was nice to see some fellow saints at a conservative movie.
A Couple of things I have noticed:
1. The majority of those attending were over age 40 and many looked like they were senior citizens. At both showings my teens were the only people attending under the age of 30. The audience clapped both times after each showing, and all seemed highly entertained.
2. I have to juxtapose the age issue with the viewing of Fahrenheit 9-11 that I attended while it was still in theatres back in 2004. I attended a nine pm viewing of that movie and it was mostly college aged students who made up the audience (And there were only a handful of people at the show). The various older adults seemed like curious conservatives, like me, who had come to view it just to see what all the fuss was about.
3. For me the highlinght of this movie coming out has been the many political conversations I have had with my four older children, the highlight of which took place in a small restaurant in downtown Louisville on monday night after the movie. My three children and I had a wonderful chat about the political messages of An American Carol. They asked me many questions and we were able to have a truly heartfelt conversation. I have to thank David Zucker for that. The political conversation NEVER would have happened had we not taken the time and spent the money to see the movie and then go out afterwards.
I would highly recomend any American over the age of twelve go see this movie. Go see it with your children and take them out for Ice Cream afterwards and ask them what they thought. The whole sale brainwashing our children are getting in school these days needs to be countered with some serious, focused, countering by the adults who care about Freedom.
My favorite scenes from the movie include the production number 1968 (Which happens to be the year I was born) - the song that spoofs liberal professors and higher education. Also the scene where Malone is shown Detroit (my home town) after a nuclear explosion. I loved all of the physical humor, as well as the timing of how the story played out. (I played a character role in Scrooge, The Musical when I was a sophemore in high school).
I found myself tearing up at the end when the audience at the concert was panned and Malone noticed soldiers from all of the previous American Wars in the crowd. It was an unexpected burst of emotion after laughing so much. I have had direct line ancestors fight in every conflict since the American Revolution, and it just made me think of them and all of the sacrifices made for our Freedom.
Thanks to all of the actors, producers, and most especially to David Zucker for making a great movie. It will go in our family library when it comes out on DVD.
Red Square at the Peoples Cube has written a policy level analysis of the Movie, its reviews and what this portends for the future.
Click on the image to get to the American Thinker Version of this review
"Brian Orndorf, whose film reviews appear on prestigious movie websites, calls American Carol a "lousy, hopeless movie, easily one of the worst films of the year" that "reinforces how needlessly divisive our country has become." But if the cultural division is so sizable that both groups can't even understand each other's jokes, isn't it best to acknowledge this fact and act accordingly instead of continuing to pretend and live in denial?
And what's with this "needlessly"? Aren't we supposed to "celebrate our differences"? What happened to the liberal doctrine of diversity? Or are there different kinds of differences and some differences are more different than others? Should we only celebrate those differences that conform to the party line and obfuscate those that are perpendicular to it? And isn't the latter closer to the actual meaning of "being diverse"?
The party line on this subject is clear: beat conservatives into pulp and if they resist accuse them of being "needlessly divisive." Anything less would legitimize conservatism and make it an equal partner in the cultural narrative. Because if the liberal narrative monopoly is shattered, down will go the "mainstream" cover of the liberal media, exposing decades of deception and hidden skeletons. Once you realize how high the stakes are, the sadistic critical beating of American Carol no longer looks like an overreaction. In the words of Karl Marx it was "historically inevitable."
Posted by Jenny Hatch at 2:05 PM
September 19, 2008
Movie Review: The Women by Jenny Hatch
I suppose it is unfair to review a movie that was so bad I had to get up and walk out of it after twenty minutes because I felt like I was going to barf.
But I'll try.
Here is the movie description:
"The Women tells the story of Mary Haines (Meg Ryan), a clothing designer who seems to have it all – a beautiful country home, a rich financier husband, an adorable 11-year-old daughter and a part-time career creating designs for her father’s venerable clothing company. Her best friend, Sylvie Fowler (Annette Bening), leads another enviable life – a happily single editor of a prominent fashion magazine, a possessor of a huge closet of designer clothes and a revered arbiter of taste and style poised on New York’s cutting edge. But when Mary’s husband enters into an affair with Crystal Allen (Eva Mendes), a sultry ‘spritzer girl’ lurking behind the Saks Fifth Avenue perfume counter, all hell breaks loose. Mary and Sylvie’s relationship is tested to the breaking point while their tight-knit circle of friends, including mega-mommy Edie Cohen (Debra Messing) and author Alex Fisher (Jada Pinkett-Smith), all start to question their own friendships and romantic relationships as well."
I saw the original movie on TNT, The Women 1939 and it was just as bad as the new version, had to turn it off after the main woman showed up in Reno for her divorce.
In a description from Wiki we see that the women was:
"an acidic commentary on the pampered lives and power struggles of various rich, bored wives and the other women that they come into contact with. Throughout the film, not a single male is seen — although the males are much talked about, and the central theme is the women's relationships with them. The attention to detail was such that even in props such as portraits only female figures are represented, and several animals which appeared as pets were also female."
Don't get me wrong the playwright Clare Boothe Luce is my ideological twin, but what these directors did with the story played out as a diatribe against men and made the women look like a bunch of materialistic nothings.
Come on Hollywood, you can do it, make a movie for real mothers and real women who shop at Wal Mart, go to church, have big families, and love their husbands.
In fact, why don't you do a biography of Sarah Palin that is NOT a hit job.
I doubt you could find a good enough writer to write the script...but hey, give it a try.
Please, no more pointless, feel bad, materialistic, adulteristic, fake friends, hyperbolic man hating, screaming during childbirth, "death to the American Family" piffle....it is just sickening to watch, and I'm p.o.'d that I wasted my nine bucks.
Posted by Jenny Hatch at 9:20 AM
May 7, 2008
The Business of Being Born is now out on DVD!!!
Posted by Jenny Hatch at 8:59 AM
May 1, 2008
Countdown to Narnia - Prince Caspian
I love these books! The Chronicles are some of my childrens favorite books. We are all very excited to go see this next movie in the series.
Here is an interview with the owner of Walden Media (h/t to Hugh Hewitt):
Posted by Jenny Hatch at 6:07 PM
January 31, 2008
Amazing Grace
UPDATE:
February 2nd, 2008
My 40th birthday was today and Paul gave me the gift I asked for. The DVD of Amazing Grace. We watched it as a family tonight.
This afternoon he pulled out his guitar and we sang the song together. Here is a copy of our first time through. It is a little rough, but it was nice to sing the song as a duet.
I bought the score for the music from Amazing Grace as a chirstmas present to myself. I've been working on the title song, absolutely love it, and loved the movie which we rented last thanksgiving.
Here is the music video of the song:
CHRIS TOMLIN LYRICS
"Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone)"
Amazing grace
How sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me
I once was lost, but now I'm found
Was blind, but now I see
'Twas grace that taught my heart to fear
And grace my fears relieved
How precious did that grace appear
The hour I first believed
My chains are gone
I've been set free
My God, my Savior has ransomed me
And like a flood His mercy reigns
Unending love, Amazing grace
The Lord has promised good to me
His word my hope secures
He will my shield and portion be
As long as life endures
My chains are gone
I've been set free
My God, my Savior has ransomed me
And like a flood His mercy reigns
Unending love, Amazing grace
My chains are gone
I've been set free
My God, my Savior has ransomed me
And like a flood His mercy reigns
Unending love, Amazing grace
The earth shall soon dissolve like snow
The sun forbear to shine
But God, Who called me here below
Will be forever mine
Will be forever mine
You are forever mine
William Wilberforce by Karl Anton Hickel Ca 1794
Here are the Lyrics to the whole Song originally written by John Newton:
Albert Finney as John Newton
The Lyrics of the Song
Amazing Grace (How sweet the sound)
That sav'd a wretch like me!
I once was lost, but now am found,
Was blind, but now I see.
'Twas grace that taught my heart to fear,
And grace my fears reliev'd;
How precious did that grace appear,
The hour I first believ'd!
Thro' many dangers, toils and snare,
I have already come;
'Tis grace has brought me safe thus far,
And grace will lead me home.
The Lord has promised good to me.
His word my hope secures;
He will my shield and portion be,
As long as life endures.
Yes, when this flesh and heart shall fail,
And mortal life shall cease;
I shall profess, within the vail,
A life of joy and peace.
The earth shall soon dissolve like snow,
The sun forbear to shine;
But God, who call'd me here below,
Will be for ever mine.
John Newton (played by Albert Finney in Amazing Grace) wrote the words to one of the most beloved hymns of all time between 1760 and 1770, while working as an evangelical pastor. Son of the commander of a merchant ship, Newton was captain of a slave ship for many years, until he underwent a dramatic religious conversion while steering his vessel through a storm.
Repenting and regretting the misery he had inflicted on the thousands of human cargo he had transported across the Middle Passage for many years, he devoted his life to the Church, and wrote the lyrics to many hymns which are still popular today.
In 1780 Newton left Olney to become rector of St. Mary Woolnoth, St. Mary Woolchurch, in London. There he drew large congregations and influenced many, among them William Wilberforce. Newton continued to preach until the last year of life, although he was blind by that time. He died in London December 21, 1807.
Trailer from the Movie:
Posted by Jenny Hatch at 9:44 AM
March 29, 2007
Movie review: Pursuit of Happyness and Wild Swans
Last night Paul picked up the new DVD release of Pursuit of Happyness at the grocery store. It just came out on video. I have wanted to see it ever since I watched the Oprah where Chris Gardner and Will Smith appeared on her show a couple months ago.
We watched the movie last night, and this afternoon I watched the various extras in the special features section they provide on the DVD; the making of the movie, interviews with the director and Chris Gardner. I'm listening to bebe winans song "I can" as I type right now. What an amazing movie! I was struck listening to the Italian director, he felt it was crucial this movie be made by a foreigner because American directors would not be able to tell it right. I knew exactly what he meant as he spoke.
Will Smith in describing this movie, said it was about hope, being able to overcome odds, a story about being able to dream no matter what your circumstances are, and fathers and sons. As he was talking Chris Gardner said he ultimately wanted to set an example of Fathers taking care of their children, breaking the cycles of abandonment...etc...
The one word I did not hear during the whole movie and all of the extras was the word Capitalism. I believe the Italian Movie director was implying that Americans do not understand what it means to pursue the American Dream because we take so many things for granted. So many of our assumptions as Americans revolve around the realities of Capitalism and the guarantees of individual rights that we all enjoy. Yet the fact that our schools are blatently teaching Socialism as the ideal creates a sense of shame around our corporations and industry. In some circles Capitalism has been turned into an ugly, selfish word. The films producers called Capitalism, The American Dream, a more nuanced description of our form of economics.
The director said:
"To appreciate and understand the American Dream, you have to be a foreigner." He said Chris is the essence of the American Man who wanted to make it and he did make it.
This wonderrful movie is a celebration of Capitalism and individual rights.
Juxtiposed with this experience of enjoying and cherishing the message of this excellent movie has been the experience I have been having these past few weeks re-reading Wild Swans by Jung Chang. This is the third time I have read this book. I first read it while I was pregnant with Ben in 2002. Then I bought the paperback copy of the book and read it right when it showed up a few years ago, and then I picked it up a few weeks ago for a re-read. I have been reading it slowly this time. It has been a busy time with the Gathering of Eagles efforts, so I have not blasted through it as I usually do with most of the books I read. This time I have marked a few passages that I wanted to share here on my blog.
I keep thinking of the little cretin who showed up at the anti war rally with that Mao T-Shirt. What an arrogant little ball of collectivist ignorance juxtiposed with American Freedom of Expression.
He shows up later in this movie I made at the Denver Anti War Rally. He claimed that the people who died in China died of Famine. Thinking about his words and beliefs while I have read this book has actually made me feel nauseated. Truly sick to my stomach that politcally active people in our country would believe that Mao's China is the ideal.
Here are a couple of passages from Changs book. This book and her bio of Mao should be required reading for all of our Professors and anyone who would call themselves "educated" in our society.
P. 136 from the chapter titled A Revolutionary marriage:
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My grandmothers brother in law, "Loyalty" Pei-o, was exciled to the country to do manual labor. Because he had no blood on his hands, he was given a sentence called "under surveillance". Instead of bing imprisoned, this meant being guarded (just as effectively) in society. His family chose to go to the country with him.... His work "under surveillance" lasted three years. It was rather like assigned labor under parole. People under surveillance enjoyed a measure of freedom, but they had to report to the police at regular intervals with a detailed account of everything they had done, or even thought, since their last visit, and they were openly watched by the police."
P 210 China Silenced
In the early 1950's, a communist was supposed to give herself so completely to the revolution and the people that any demonstration of affection for her children was forwned on as a sign of divided loyalties. Every single hour apart from eating or sleeping belonged to the revolution, and was supposed to be spent working. Anything that was regarded as not to do with the revolution, like carrying your children in your arms, had to be dispatched with as speedily as possible.
At first, my mother found this hard to get used to. "putting family first" was a criticism constantly leveld at her by her party colleagues."
P. 225 Famine
"The whole nation slid into doublespeak. Words became divorced from reality, responsibility, and people's real thoughts. Lies we were told with ease because words had lost their meanings - and had ceased to be taken seriously by others.
This was entrenched by the further regimentation of society. When he first set up the communes, Mao said their main advantage was that they "are easy to control," because the peasants would now be in an organized system rather than being, to a ceratin extent, left alone. They were given detailed orders from the top about how to till their land. Moa summed up the whole of agriculture in eight characters: "soil, fertilizer, water, seeds, dense planting, protection, tendind, technology" The party central committe in Peking was handing out two-page instructions on how peasants all over China should improve their fields, another page on how to use fertilizers, another on planting crops densely. Their incredibly simplistic instructions had to be strictly followed: the peasants were ordered to replant their crops more densely in one mini-campaign after another.
Another means of regimentation, setting up canteens in the communes, was an obsession with Mao at the time. In his airy way, he defined communism as "public canteens with free meals" The fact that the canteens themselves did not produce food did not concern him. In 1958 the regime effectively banned eating at home. Every peasant had to eat in the commune canteen. Kitchen utensils like woks and in some places, money, were outlawed. Everybody was going to be looked after by the Commune and the State.....
The failure to get in the harvest in 1958 flashed a warning that a food shortage was on its way, even though the official statistics showed a double digit increase in agricultural output. It was officially announced that in 1958 China's wheat output had overtaken that of the United States. The party newspaper, the Peoples Daily, started a discussion on the topic, "How do we cope with the problem of producing too much food?"
P. 304 My Parents Dilemma:
"I was not forced to join the Red Guards. I was keen to do so. In spite of what was happening around me, my aversion and fear ad no clear object, and it never occured to me to question the Cultural Revolution or the Red Guards explicitly. They were Mao's creations, and Mao was beyond contemplation.
Like many Chinese, I was incapable of rational thinking in those days. We were so cowed and contorted by fear and indoctrination that to deviate from the path laid down by Mao would have been inconceivable. Besides, we had been overwhelmed by deceptive rhetoric, disinfomation, and hypocrisy, which made it virtually impossible to see through the situation and to form an intelligent judgement."
I would recomend wild swans and the happyness movie as excellent sides to an economic coin.
A few months ago Paul and I were talking about the doublethink that is currently part of American Culture in regards to the medical profession. He had just read Natan Sharanskys The Case for Democracy and we were discussing the fact that if you decide to deviate from the current medical orthodoxy in regards to birthing, not immunizing, and other so-called dogmas of medical practice, there is a very real chance that you could have your children taken away by social services, or be looking at a court order to force you to have whatever treatment is being recomended. The fear tied around this reality keeps the vast majority of families marching lockstep to big pharmas marching orders.
When Parents who are just trying to protect their little ones from being medically damaged are called child abusers and social workers feel justified in taking away children for medical neglect, I know it is hard to comprehend, but the threat is real and is happening in various cases around the country. This form of American group think is a blight on our freedoms and individual sovereignty.
I am all about Freedom and families being given complete rights of self determination over the health of their children.
Posted by Jenny Hatch at 1:31 PM
March 2, 2007
Bridge to Terebithia
Shelly and Allison just walked in the door after watching the new movie Bridge to Terebithia. They both still had tears in their eyes. They said many people in the theatre were sobbing out loud, and that the movie was amazing.
I loved reading that book when I was a child. I almost never go to the movies when something is new, I like to watch them in the comfort of my own home when they come out on DVD. But the girls both loved the book, and were excited to see the movie. The boys saw it last week with our friends, and the mom who took them said that she cried so much she had a headache. Jeff and Andy also said they loved it.
Posted by Jenny Hatch at 9:36 PM
December 22, 2006
The Da Vinci Code
Paul and I watched the Da Vinci Code DVD this morning.
We both read the book and then went to see the movie on opening night when it came out last summer.
I have long been exposed to the idea that Jesus Christ was married and was a father. This is mentioned in the Journal of Discourses. One of the early apostles claims that Jesus was the father of Children, plural.
I suppose for the members of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, this is not a difficult doctrine because we believe that eternal marriage is the fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ, and so it would make sense that we believe it is possible Jesus was married, and we are one of the few Christian Religions that believes Heavenly Father is married, and has a physical body, although we are his spiritual offspring, and Jesus was his only child born in the flesh.
I had an interesting conversation on a military blog right after seeing the movie for the first time, and thought I would link to it here on my own blog.
Here is the original post of Sgt Stryker, and then all of the commentary that followed, with my comments in BOLD:
When I heard reports this week that critics hated the movie version of The DaVinci Code, I was a bit worried about going to see it. I really enjoyed the book. It was a treasure hunt, a thriller, a murder mystery. A good read. I hate it when a book I like gets turned into a really bad movie. Criticisms included that Tom Hanks looked bored, his costar Audrey Tantou couldn’t be understood because her accent was so thick, and that the audience laughed in the most inappropriate places.
I don’t know what move those critics went to see, but the one we just came back from was a lot of fun. Tom Hanks was more thoughtful than in some of his more previous roles, but I didn’t see him look bored. I could understand Audrey Tantou just fine. Her accent just wasn’t all that thick. The only time the audience laughed was in some pretty appropriate places.
As a treasure hunt movie, National Treasure was more fun and edge of your seat exciting. It’s the subject matter which makes “The Code” more interesting. Mix fact with fiction with old mythology with a healthy dose of stretching ideas to fit a point of view, and you’ve got yourself a powerful brain bender.
I’m not the guy to talk about the theological problems in this movie. In case you’ve missed it, I’m not a fan of organized religion. So I don’t get the problems that some religious folks have voiced. I didn’t find anything hertical or particularly offensive about it. The fact that there were other Gospels is historically documented. The fact that Constantine and the Council of Nicaea got together and chose the Gospels as we know the Bible today is also well-documented. I can’t speak for Constantine’s or the various Bishop’s motives…but then again, neither can anyone else.
Personally, I find the fact that the Catholic Church and other religious groups want to supress the movie much more offensive than anything the movie says about the life of Jesus. But that’s just the way I’m wired.
Timmer
29 people commented, but I will only share those that either responded directly to me or dissed me.
I totally agree, I think the movie and the book were great.
Here is my synopsis of the good points of the movie….
The divine Femine to me is not so much worship of Mary, the Code’s articulated wife of Jesus, as it is simply the understanding that posterity, blood lines, family relationships, and the possibility that Christ married, loved, and fathered a child are sacred things, not to be hidden from humanity.
If it is true that during the councils of Nicea Christ was made into a spirit without body, parts, or passions and all evidence of his more human side - being married, having children, having a wife then perhaps it is time for that particular fraud to be exposed.
The mistake Brown made in the book was in going all the way to the other extreme - he believed that Christ being a father meant his divinity was in question.
One line in the movie struck me in particular. Tom Hanks character said that perhaps being human is divine. I think moviegoers will appreciate the entertainment value of the show, and also the possible opportunities it presents for conversation with others about what is sacred, what is real, who is divine, and what makes people holy.
It makes sense to me to consider the idea that the Savior taught the people of his day how to live a more healthy life, and practiced what he preached with his own wife and children. I think one of the reasons he was murdered was simply because he was destroying the Medical Monopoly in Jerusalem and the doctors did not like having someone who called himself the son of God moving in on their carefully tended turf.
I believe the divine feminine is tied up completely in heathy women, giving birth to healthy children, in an empowering and sacred holisitc birthing situation.
It does not take a huge leap to understand that the main way women have been kept from living empowered free thinking lives has been the various entities in our world who over the ages have been the ways and means of keeping women from experiencing divine childbirth.
Wether it was killing the local herbalist or midwife as so called “witches”, or teaching the young women of today that the fullness of their reproductive power lies in the ability to prevent life with drugs, abortion, and planned sterility - the powers that be, embodied in our Medical Profession of today - are the befuddlers of the Divine Feminine.
As they have worked diligently over the past two hundred years to fill all peoples of the world with absolute terror in regards to giving birth - the Divine Feminine as embodied in sacred, holistic, natural, primal, and hormonal childbirth has been shoved to the underground of humanity.
Fortunately a rebirth of what is good and praiseworthy about sacred non-traumatic birth is being revitalized with the help of the internet and I am grateful to Dan Brown that even though he does not see the whole picture, he puts family life, the importance of geneological records, and posterity right back in the limelight where it belongs through his book and the movie.
Was Jesus Christ a Parent? I suppose only time will tell. My gut feeling is that he was and that he used his role as Savior to teach better parenting to all whom he had direct contact with.
I am anxiously awaiting the texts which will coroborate and justify my beliefs in these matters and am thankful to Ron Brown for putting motherhood and posterity in its proper context as a holy sacred thing worthy of knights in shining armor defending, willing to die as they protect.
I believe it is no accident that the French historically have been the most enlightened about Divine Childbirth, understanding the role that proper hormonal connectedness plays in family relationships and bonding. The famous French Obstetrician Michel Odent, author and MD, has made it his life’s work to share the Sacred Feminine with anyone who is interested in getting the facts.
His book The Scientification of Love contains all of the most recent information on how to revolutionize and heal our society through understanding the divine laws of childbirth.
Give it a read!
Here is a link to an article he wrote which encapsulates the ideas in the Scientification of Love…
It is explicit information, but who ever accused the french of being prudes when it came to human sexuality and reproduction???
Jenny Hatch
Comment by Jenny Hatch — 20060521 @ 1857
Paul,
You said:
“The Mary Magdelene cult, obviously, would be all of those other cults and its persistant influence on the faithful would be a source of considerable worry.
Many religions, after all, spend an incredible amount of energy regulating human sexual conduct to facilitate societal harmony.
The ones highlighted here represent two different approaches to the problem based on different and competing philosophies. Neither can exist simultaneously within a society, which is why both are always vehemently opposed to the other’s influence.”
As I tried to outline in my post, if Jesus was teaching (and practicing) divine feminine principles in his own family life - divine feminine as outlined by the article by Michel Odent - which outlines the true principles for hormonal family harmony in regards to sexuality - then yes, that would have been a huge threat to the medical powers that be in ancient jerusalem, and the various medical societies that existed over the past two thousand years. Do not make the mistake of thinking that our “modern medicine” is anything new.
The scope and size of this modern day drug cult is bigger than anything contemplated by our ancient ancestors, but the drugs, surgery, and abortion on demand have been around for a long, long time. Nothing new under the sun.
Perhaps Jesus teaching and healing the people of ancient Israel was a real threat to the doctors of the day. Think of the story of the woman who was healed of a 12 year hemorrhage simply by touching Jesus’s high frequency clothing. What is often forgotten in the retelling of this story is that the woman spent all her living on doctors trying to fix her problem.
If Jesus put all the Gyn’s of his day out of business and all the leprosy docs out of business, and all the morticians were up in arms because he kept raising people from the dead, then I think that would be a true threat to the status quo.
If he was teaching women how to live more holistically, so they would not have an “issue of blood for 12 years” or if he was teaching divine principles of childbirth and breastfeeding to the women of his day and his own wife was living and teaching these principles to his followers, then yes, I could see how some evil people would call that a threat and kill him and then try to kill her.
Studying the history of childbirth as I have done for the past 18 years has simply been an education in the politics of money and control. I’m not a feminist, I’m a strong anti-feminist, but I am completely for each woman learning for herself the truth about empowered living and cutting free from the ties that bind.
Have you ever considered that the pagan cults as you call them have been discredited by tying them to witchcraft and satan worship, while the most debilitating and disempowering system for family life the world has ever seen is wrapped up and tied to the biggest religions of the world??? How many hospitals in your own town are tied to a religious group? How many of your tax dollars have gone to fund the abominations that happen daily in your community all in the name of proper medical care??
I applaud Brown’s book because perhaps his movie will help to expose the frauds that have been perpetrated mostly on women and devastatingly on families all in the name of health.
By besmirching the character of Mary as a whore, and stiffling the truth, the control and evil that has been done to women for two thousand years needs to be exposed and motherhood and sacred childbirth put back into its proper place in society.
The fact that our young woman all over the world are drugged senseless and cut to pieces day in and day out just sickens me. Something better is right there in front of us, but we are so afraid, everyone is so bottled up in fear, to even consider the idea of giving birth all alone just makes people faint. Yet it is the practice that will heal families and help to fix the broken bonds. Jesus himself declared that the last days would be a time of the mother against the daughter and the father against the son….why has this happened??? Does anyone care???
Does anyone want to fix it??
I do. And I thank Dan Brown for helping to expose the frauds.
Jenny Hatch
Comment by Jenny Hatch — 20060521 @ 2030
Dan Brown exposed nothing, Jenny.
The book is FICTION!
Comment by Roy — 20060522 @ 0649
Roy,
Dan Brown even writing about the sacred feminine and articulating the idea of Christ being a Father helps to expose the lies and conspiracies.
I’m thrilled that millions all over the world are being exposed to these ideas.
I appreciate the fact that the book was written as historical fiction and I have some serious doctrinal issues with some of the book and some of the movie - I’m not saying it is all true and all factual and correct doctrine, but I AM grateful for the idea being brought forth that Mary Magdaline had a whole slew of warriors willing to protect her, and then a couple hundred generations of people who were willing to die in order to keep alive the truth of her marriage and motherhood.
The fact is protecting and defending wives and mothers is something that is worth dying for.
And IF the vactican has covered up Jesus’s fatherhood and marriage, then I believe it is time for that particular fraud to be exposed.
Jenny
Comment by Jenny Hatch — 20060522 @ 0811
Just read this on Drudge….
“Menstruation Is Fast Becoming Optional By LINDA A. JOHNSON, Associated Press Writer
Sun May 21, 6:45 PM ET
For young women with a world of choices, even that monthly curse, the menstrual period, is optional.
Thanks to birth control pills and other hormonal contraceptives, a growing number of women are taking the path chosen by 22-year-old Stephanie Sardinha.
She hasn’t had a period since she was 17.
“It’s really one of the best things I’ve ever done,” she says.
A college student and retail worker in Lisbon Falls, Maine, Sardinha uses Nuvaring, a vaginal contraceptive ring. After the hormones run out in three weeks, she replaces the ring right away instead of following instructions to leave the ring out for a week to allow bleeding. She says it has been great for her marriage, preventing monthly crankiness and improving her sex life.
“I would never go back,” said Sardinha, who got the idea from her aunt, a nurse practitioner.”
As I said before….where is all this going to end? Women deciding that being a Mother is just too much of a bother?? Too messy?? Too Bloody??
The pharmacuetical companies just rake in the dough, and all semblance of what is normal and natural just falls away as quaint and old fashioned.
What sort of an impact does that masculization of women have an society?
I see todays world as a logical and ugly end to the wheels set in motion hundreds of years ago to rob women of their femininity and true sexuality - and consign them to a male controlled structure that knows nothing that is sacred, and scoffs at those of us who claim, believe, and live the sacred feminine lifestyle.
Jenny
Comment by Jenny Hatch — 20060522 @ 1129
By the way… methinks I smell a scientologist.
Comment by Robin — 20060522 @ 1802
Insertion comment on December 22, 2006: Why oh why do these people always think I am a scientologist??? For years I have had people accuse me of it for sharing my heartfelt views about the pharma companies. And here again, instead of answering and debating my questions and views, they just personal attack. It is so silly.
‘ere, we’ll ‘have none o’that fancy-nancy scientology fol-der-ol mucking abaht ‘ere! We ‘ere at t’ Daily Brief are ‘ard workin’ honest folk, none o’ they there ‘ollywood trash-like!
(resuming my normal, dulcet mid-Atlantic voice)
Oh, when you have lightly moderated comments, all sorts of stuff comes in through the door. Just part of our happy and effecient service. Start a discussion with her, if you like. Free country, and all that.
Comment by Sgt. Mom — 20060522 @ 1825
Scientologist, where’s the scientologist??? WHO LET THE F***ING SCIENTOLOGIST IN???
Comment by Sgt/Cpl Blondie — 20060522 @ 1938
Be vewwy vewwy kwiet, Blondie is hunting Scien-Scientol-Scientologiminimsssss…. Hubbardites.
Comment by Timmer — 20060522 @ 1947
After you, Mr Vice-President………Happy scien-I-mean-quail-hunting.
Comment by Sgt/Cpl Blondie — 20060522 @ 2035
Thanks Sargent Mom,
Yeah, start a conversation with me if you like.
I’m a member of pajamas media too,
neo-con momma of five. No, not a scientologist, although I have been mistaken for one before at Free Republic.
I am just a Mormon Momma who wants more than a knife in the belly for my daughters and grandaughters when they give birth.
I’d love to debate about anything I have have posted regarding the Da Vinci Code and the Divine Feminine…Name calling and stereotyping generally means someone has absolutely nothing to offer to the conversation…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_attack
“Generally, a personal attack is committed when a person substitutes abusive remarks for evidence when examining another person’s claims or comments. It is considered a personal attack when a person starts referencing a supposed flaw or weakness in an individual’s personality, beliefs, lifestyle, convictions or principles, and use it as a debate tactic or as a means of avoiding discussion of the relevance or truthfulness the person’s statement. It works on the reasoning that, by discrediting the source of a logical argument, namely the person making it, the argument itself can be weakened.”
I am happy to stand by anything written above. Anyone want to chat??
Jenny
Comment by Jenny Hatch — 20060523 @ 0601
Any guys who want to debate Jenny on “The Devine Feminine” raise your hands? Anyone? Anyone? No?
Okay, any guys who want to go up in an airplane this weekend and drop bowling balls onto old cars? Whoa!!! Line up guys, it’s a little plane.
Sorry Jenny, it’s just the way we’re wired.
Shrug.
Comment by Timmer — 20060523 @ 0615
Timmer,
Thanks for giving me a good chuckle this morning…..
I can understand if you are skittish and don’t want to talk about feminine issues which although sacred, are not exactly “man talk”. Problem is, because docs have taken over, most women don’t know much about natural birth, breastfeeding, and healthy hormonal living either.
Believe me, the only thing that emboldens me to speak out on the web, at my blog and web site and the reason I wrote my books is because I am concerned that if some of us don’t speak up for what is normal and natural, the whole thing is just going to explode into a modern day chemical nightmare. Heck, with a 30% c-section rate we are almost there.
You are a husband and father…I figure we are about the same age. Don’t you want something normal and natural for your granddaughters, rather than the antidepressant, PMS, topsy turvey hormonal hell most women struggle with?
Jenny
Comment by Jenny Hatch — 20060523 @ 0631
Haha, Mormons… even better. You can stand by the point of view that i’m laughing at your personal beliefs because your argument is just too damn rational, but you’ll never be able to convince me that there were any ‘golden plates’ in Joseph Smith’s hat. Why couldn’t he translate the plates a second time? Yeah right. If you’re that gullible, you’re probably a waste of breath.
Comment by Robin — 20060523 @ 1117
Sorry, Jenny, ya blog with the guys ya have, and I have a feeling the bowling balls will win out every time… and I don’t know that I have much to say about the Feminine Divine through the Da Vinci Code,either. When I tried to read Blondie’s copy I kept running into the bits that sounded like entries in the Bulwer-Lytton contest, and I just couldn’t stop cringing.
I did speed-skim through Holy Blood Holy Grail, though, one lunch hour, leaning up against the sale table at Barnes & Noble and leafing through a remaindered copy… sigh. At least I got to the good parts, and saved me a couple of bucks.
(I never read best-sellers,when everyone else is… one of my little life rules. If it’s any good at all, you’ll still be able to find it, five or ten years later)
I think there might be a serious case for women having been, in His lifetime, fairly serious and respected followers, and women may have held fairly high positions in very early Church, but all the arguments are based on fairly wispy evidence and suppositions… and any serious discussion of this will now be steam-rollered by the Da Vinci Code… which, as Roy pointed out, is a story.
Although, I agree with you that too many naturally occuring things are over-medicated… and I speak as one who had practically memorized “Our Bodies, Ourselves.”
OK, guys, you can quit cringing now.
Comment by Sgt. Mom — 20060523 @ 1709
I responded to Sgt. Mom, but Timmer did not have the courage to post my response. I wish I would have saved the post, but it went something like this.
Sgt. Mom,
Do you think it would be better for married couples if instead of a wife blaming her husband for the birth abomination she just experienced and him experiencing all sorts of husband guilt for getting her pregnant, if that same wife was to turn to her husband upon the birth of a child and say, "honey, giving birth to your child just gave me the biggest orgasm of my life!"
How would that ripple out into society???
My life's work is encompassed in this idea and potential. That birth was INTENDED to be pleasurable, private, and the fullfillment of the sexual act between married couples.
The fact that the average women in our world comes away from typical allopathic birth more physically damaged than the worst gang rape is all the evidence I need to know that we are going down the wrong path as a society. And I unapologetically stand up for this ideal, even if Timmer is to skittish to post it on his blog.
It was great watching the movie again, and I especially enjoyed seeing the interviews with Ron Howard and Co. as they explained and discussed the merits of the movie and how they made it in the extra footage on the DVD.
I especially liked the fact that Ron wanted to make the movie because he was married to a strong woman and had three daughters.
Our posterity deserves more than what is currently being offered in terms of choices around motherhood.
Jenny Hatch with Ben in the sling nursing when he was a newborn, and my nephew asleep on my legs, winter of 2002
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