Sneaky Snake

DAN BROWN — TOM HANKS — INFERNO — 2016

When the book came out in 2013, we were expecting a book by Dan Brown with Dante and his Inferno as the central piece. Definitely. But it finally came out and it left us totally aghast. It was made into a film with Tom Hanks as Professor Langdon and I just wonder here if the film corrected the surprising non-scientific — not say anti-scientific — discourse of the book. I am afraid not because the action is visual, and it covers up the scientific discourse that is reduced to as little as possible. It becomes the danger of a pandemic and since then we have been experiencing, for now, more than one full year such a pandemic and we know everything about it. The other day, a couple of months ago, a Jehovah Witness militant contacted me on the phone and started quoted the Old Testament to prove science was right, and pretty soon we were going to live forever. That discourse was totally anti-Christian because for the Christian religion death is an essential step in our lives, both on earth and beyond. It is the possibility to enter the procedure that might bring us to the Messianic Jerusalem. Death is necessary for Christians. And death is ever-present in the Old Testament, at least as much as in the New Testament, though without the possibility for ALL humans to be saved and to have eternal life in the Messianic Jerusalem. In the Old Testament that promotion…