Many in the Christian church (and, I would imagine, *especially* the Catholic portion of the Christian church) have been concerned that Dan Brown's bestselling novel The Da Vinci Code is rife with misleading information regarding...well, just about everything having to do with the faith. Now that it's about to be released as a movie, the discussions are active again.
The concern, obviously, is that people will take the work of fiction as fact and the conspiracy theories laid out by Dan Brown as scholarly. There's been a great deal of talk about how Brown gets it wrong with respect to documented church history, the actual life of Christ, and the teachings, motives and disposition of the church in general. But one issue that's been largely passed over thus far is the subject of today's insightful A-Team Blog post on how The Da Vinci Code glorifies paganism.
Just as a side note, the A-Team Blog is always worth a read -- whether you're a Christian who wants a stimulating intellectual discussion on faith, culture, politics and society, or a non-Christian who wants some reasonable insight into the Christian worldview. You are ALWAYS welcome to bring your two cents, and you'll always be acknowledged in the discussion.
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I read Holy Blood Holy Grail years ago (that's the book that the Da Vinci Code is based upon) and it didn't change my views one bit.
I can't believe people are so weak-minded that they would lose their faith over a stupid book.
Cube, I don't think it's the people who already believe that everyone's worried about, so much as it is the people who don't know Christ, or who think they do just because Mom dragged them to church every Sunday when they were little.
The sad thing is, these ideas and claims in the book are fairly easy to look into (and refute) if you just employ a little reasoning -- and it helps if you know what the Bible actually says.
But these days, biblical literacy is almost unheard of (where once it was the earmark of the educated person, regardless of their belief). And it seems like people no longer know or care about logic and reason, for the most part. Probably because it takes work, and we've become intellectually lazy (I'm guilty of it myself...but still striving).
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