Tuesday, May 23, 2006
The Da Vinci Code hoopla
From an opinion piece in USA Today:
From the furor over The Da Vinci Code, you'd think World War III was about to erupt. Dan Brown's blockbuster - first the book, now the movie opening today - has ignited a fight among many Christians over whether it should be shunned as blasphemy or used as a starting point to win converts... The bare-bones story, for anyone still in the dark, is that a professor of religious symbolism unravels clues to "discover" that Christianity is built on a falsehood: Jesus was not divine. He married Mary Magdalene and left descendants. This has been covered up for centuries by the Roman Catholic church and assorted men of history... The Da Vinci Code is entertainment, not theology. If it arouses intellectual curiosity, so much the better. As author Brown has suggested, if Christianity has withstood heretical ideas and fierce attacks through the centuries, it needn't have to worry about a thriller writer from New Hampshire.That this book is a work of fiction -- let me repeat that: A WORK OF FICTION -- and it's causing so much controversy among certain people just makes me wonder how insecure those people are about their own religion.
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The Da Vinci Code is fiction, yes. But so is Harry Potter and I'll fight tooth and nail from having that book as REQUIRED reading in school. What gets me all razzed up about Da Vinci Code is the people who claim this is "the truth" and want to use this as an opportunity to discredit the church. That's a load of phooey.
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