{"id":2555,"date":"2009-03-12T16:00:12","date_gmt":"2009-03-12T20:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.christandpopculture.com\/?p=2555"},"modified":"2009-03-12T16:00:12","modified_gmt":"2009-03-12T20:00:12","slug":"book-of-kells-film-jettisons-christianity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/christandpopculture\/2009\/03\/book-of-kells-film-jettisons-christianity\/","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Book of Kells&quot; Film Jettisons Christianity"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>How, you may ask, is it possible for a \u201cfilm version\u201d of the Book of Kells to remove all reference to Christianity, since the Book of Kells is an illuminated manuscript of the four gospels? It seems that the Irish animated film <em>The Secret of Kells<\/em> references none of the content of the gospels, so does it tell the story of the Irish monks who illustrated the book? Sort of . . . <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/newspaper\/weekend\/2009\/0307\/1224242421758.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">according to the <em>Irish Times<\/em><\/a>, \u201cthe film follows Brendan, a plucky 12-year-old, as he fights magical serpents and Vikings while in pursuit of an enchanted crystal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Why even bother to put \u201cKells\u201d in the title?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How, you may ask, is it possible for a \u201cfilm version\u201d of the Book of Kells to remove all reference to Christianity, since the Book of Kells is an illuminated manuscript of the four gospels? 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