The Da Vinci Code movie is on its way. Are you ready to blog knowledgeably about it?
Unbelievers (and not a few Christians) may scoff at us for taking The Da Vinci Code phenomenon so seriously. But pop culture is powerful, and although we surely have more productive things to do, setting the record straight and offering a reasoned defense of the faith and correcting historical inaccuracies are also important, even when the subject is fiction.
Christian bloggers can create a blog swarm around the upcoming movie. As someone who is learning more every day about the importance of using relevant keywords for search engine placement and anticipating hot topics and search trends, I know the more blogging you and I do about the movie, the more we’ll draw readers looking for online information.
Commit to studying your Bible if you’re not doing so already, read early church history (see articles) and articles on The Da Vinci Code written by other Christians, and start publicly defending what you believe. James White, my favorite Christian apologist, writes:
If you haven’t read the book (unlike more than twenty million others), you may have only heard bits and pieces about its blatant attacks upon the Christian faith. I have had the opportunity of addressing the book in a number of contexts, and will continue doing so in an attempt to equip believers to respond to the onslaught. But I would like to document some of the major errors and the way in which they are presented by Dan Brown here on the blog. I encourage you to take this information and be prepared to use this opportunity to present a strong case for the Christian faith.
Despite its questionable literary merit, the book was a runaway bestseller. Join me as I attempt to generate a blog swarm. [Note: The swarm won’t be immediate; I just want bloggers to start building archive posts so they’ll have a repository of information as the movie premiere approaches. Then we’ll generate a series of swarms.] God blessed us with this new medium for a reason. 
Related posts:
(Image from Sony Pictures)
Update: For those of you wondering, I’ve delayed the Harry Potter articles I’m working on for a few days to read Looking for God in Harry Potter, sent to me by an LBC reader (Thanks, Rae!). Hopefully the first article will be posted at Townhall.com sometime next week.
You may recall that I mentioned doing more writing outside the blog. Aside from the Potter articles, a review of Raising Boys Without Men, and an op-ed about this panel discussion, I’m working on a story for the December issue of Biblical Worldview Magazine (and will likely speak at their conference in May 2006) and may review books for Christianity Today. It’s amazing that after I blogged about being bored and burned out by politics, opportunities to write about faith materialized. There’s no such thing as a coincidence, of course.
If posting is light, it means I’m working on stories and/or with clients and building my business. Some readers e-mail, wanting to know details about why posting is light. They’re interested to know what I’m busy doing. Others either don’t care or say I blog about myself too much anyway. Insomuch as it is my blog… 
It’s a good thing I don’t try to please all of the people all of the time, eh?
Update II: But it’s only fiction!
Amphipolis is logging errors from selected chapters. Solid.
Gary Burger at New Media Ministries has written a series of (extensive) articles on The Da Vinci Code.
I object to DVC on literary grounds. It has to be one of the most poorly written best-sellers of all-time. Not everyone can be Douglass Coupland, but surely Dan Brown’s big publisher could’ve found a re-write specialist.
Comment by Matt — 10.20.05 @ 1:14 pm
All I know is SarahK said she liked it; don’t know much else than that and it’s mainly under my radar.
Anyway, it’s bad form to refer to Leonardo DaVinci as DaVinci. It’s like calling Jesus of Nazareth just “of Nazareth.”
I read that from NRO.
Comment by Frank J. — 10.20.05 @ 1:21 pm
Welcome, Frank J. I’ve read most of it, and the book is a real page-turner. Quite entertaining, actually, but the hype that will surround the upcoming movie will provide a great opportunity for Christians to flex their apologetic muscles.
I LOVE your podcast, by the way.
Comment by La Shawn — 10.20.05 @ 1:25 pm
Hanging on Every Word…
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La Shawn:
Perhaps The DaVinci Code can be misused as an anti-Christian propaganda tool, but no more than “A History of the United States’ by Howard Zinn, the most used college history book.
Like Harry Potter, parents concerned about anti-Christian bias should read it with their children, or wait until children are a little older to know it is fantasy.
I read “The DaVinci Code’ when age 60, so I was not fooled. But I can say it was one of the best written books ever. I couldn’t put it down. I read in a little more than one day.
Quite contrary to the belief that this book would corrupt my Faith, it only strengthened it - by training my mind in bring up counter-arguments.
Objecting to reading “The Da Vinci Code” and “Harry Potter” because they might corrupt someone’t Christianity is somewhat like objecting to students reading Karl Marx’s writings because they might become Communists. In contrast, reading these have made my Faith stronger, and my belief in capitalism stronger.
Comment by Frank Zavisca — 10.20.05 @ 1:49 pm
That’s my point, Frank Z. Christians can use the Da Vinci book/movie and the Harry Potter series to teach children and adults to explain the faith in light of what the Bible teaches about such things.
Comment by La Shawn — 10.20.05 @ 1:53 pm
La Shawn - my church (LCMS) did a two-month-long Sunday morning Bible study debunking Brown’s “factual” assertions. It really is easy to do. But alas, most people who call themselves Christians don’t know their Bible, so they easily fall prey to something like Da Vinci Code.
And by the way, THANK YOU THANK YOU for alerting me to James White and his ministry. I visit Alpha and Omega often now.
Comment by Big Mo — 10.20.05 @ 3:50 pm
Thanks, La Shawn. SarahK has been working hard as the new editor of the podcast (we like to be edgy but decent).
Maybe I’ll have to check out the Da Vinci code eventually. Right now, I’m reading the sixth Harry Potter book (SarahK got me into reading those).
Comment by Frank J. — 10.20.05 @ 4:19 pm
LaShawn:
You write “Commit to studying your Bible if you’re not doing so already, read articles on The Da Vinci Code written by other Christians, and start publicly defending what you believe.”
That’s all well and good, but I am curious as to why you didn’t recommend that your readers actually, you know, read The Da Vinci Code. Shouldn’t that be the first step?
Was that an oversight, or intentional?
It’s not like reading it is going to somehow sway believers into, I don’t know, heretics or something. And it will allows critics of the book/movie to speak from a position of first-hand knowledge.
Nitpickers. Nothing better to do, I suppose. I presumed those interested in blogging about the book will or have read the book. - Admin
Comment by Kman — 10.20.05 @ 4:37 pm
Hi LaShawn, The folks at HomeschoolBlogger shared your blog with me this week. Sorry I hadn’t seen it before!
I’m an amateur student of the history of science and Christianity and read the Da Vinci Code early this year. The main threat of this book is that our generation — Christians and unbelievers — is so woefully ignorant of the documented facts of history. Dan Brown’s leaps of illogic are laughable to anyone who has done any reading on the subject.
For example, Brown has Teabing saying that, “Jesus’ establishment as ‘the Son of God’ was officially proposed and voted on by the Council of Nicaea.” The fact is, the Council of Nicaea affirmed the doctrine of the Trinity in response to the threat of the Arian heresy, which denied the divine nature of Jesus. There are ample writings from earlier centuries by Tertullian and the other church fathers that show that the divinity of Jesus was understood in the time between the Gospel of John and the Council of Nicaea.
This book and movie should be a wakeup call to God’s people to study their own history and be prepared to answer such nonsense from an informed position. God bless, jay
Comment by jayfromcleveland — 10.20.05 @ 5:24 pm
Gosh, what have I missed? I tried to read the book, but found it so poorly written that I had to put it down after slogging through 25 pages. That was was when the book first appeared and then it went on to be this coloosal best seller. We expect so little from popular writers today. People accept any kind of trash without a second thought.
Comment by Wyck — 10.20.05 @ 5:29 pm
“Questionable literary merit” — ? Were you trying to be kind, dear? The book is an unmitigated disaster:
– Founded on inanities;
– Completely implausible plot;
– Characters so thin that to call them “two-dimensional would be an indefensible insult to cardboard cutouts everywhere;
– Very poor writing, often not merely ungrammatical but anti-grammatical;
– No discernible theme.
Yet Dan Brown has sold millions of copies of this garbage.
“No one ever went broke by underestimating the taste of the American public.” — H. L. Mencken.
Comment by Francis W. Porretto — 10.20.05 @ 5:37 pm
LA SHAWN BARBER is correct. Are Christian bloggers knowledgeable enough to post biblical and accurately on the upcoming Da Vinci Code movie?
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That book
La Shawn Barber is blogging about The Da Vinci Code. The book has been making quite a stir in popular culture and sending many a Christian into a tizzy over its claims about Jesus and Christianity.
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– Founded on inanities;
– Completely implausible plot;
– Characters so thin that to call them “two-dimensional would be an indefensible insult to cardboard cutouts everywhere;
– Very poor writing, often not merely ungrammatical but anti-grammatical;
– No discernible theme.
I could not agree with you more Francis. And if he had mentioned the phrase the sacred feminine, or whatever it was he kept saying, one more time, I was going to throw up.
I actually enjoyed his 2 previous books Angels & Demons and The Digital Fortress. Not that they were great works of fiction either, but they were definite page turners. I was looking forward to The Da Vinci Code, but I was really disappointed and had to force myself to finish reading it.
Comment by seal-lover — 10.20.05 @ 8:59 pm
Thanks for the article La Shawn! I think that you are right - pop culture is powerful. Dumb, deceptive and dangerous, but very powerful.
It would be interesting someday to add up the number of portraits of Jesus that pop culture has tried to pawn off on the public at large. Homosexual, feminist woman, environmentalist, Aryan superman, WASP, communist guerrilla, sex maniac, vegetarian, and New Age mystic are some of the ones that come to my mind. Apparently the real Jesus is too much of a square for the children of this world.
Comment by Mwalimu Daudi — 10.20.05 @ 9:11 pm
I’m glad you are busy LaShawn. I hope everything else goes well for you.
I don’t see why Jesus needs to be redefined for every generation. What He is called, and how He is defined is in the Bible. Why change that?
Comment by maggie — 10.20.05 @ 10:02 pm
Count me in, La Shawn!
Now I just have to re-read the thing so I remember all of the garbage I threw out of my head as soon as I finished reading it.
Comment by Stephen — 10.20.05 @ 11:42 pm
La Shawn,
I don’t read a lot of non-fiction anymore, but I did read *The Da Vinci Code*
Perhaps I live closer to human secularism than I ever thought possible… I giggle at TDVC’s premise while I admire Brown’s writing style (seriously, I admire his writing).
Brown’s premise, however, that Da Vinci’s c. 1500 rendering of “The Last Supper”–specifically Da Vinci’s characterization of the apostle John–sheds a greater understanding of Jesus Christ than millenniums of Biblical study and interpretation is… a reach.
I think TDVC put a grin across the cheeks of Salman Rushdie.
Cheers,
Comment by Moze — 10.21.05 @ 1:55 am
Coming Soon: Tom Hanks in The Da Vinci Code
Apologetics ahead of the movie version of Dan Brown’s book
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Fiction?
Well here is where the problem arises. Many people not a few younger people I have spoken with either believe the book is factual, or they desperately want to believe the book is factual. One friend in her twenties told me that she could believe the DaVcode more easily than she could believe the Bible. She might have been trying to shock me though.
Anyway, how anyone can say the book is “well-written” is beyond me. Of course, if one is not use to reading truly well written fiction, one will not be able to recognize the DaVcode for the garbage that it is.
Comment by wyck — 10.21.05 @ 9:08 am
To Jayfromcleveland:
Historical or Biblical accuracy is, unfortunately, not really important when it comes to fiction.
“The Davinci Code” makes no claims of being factually correct - the facts are altered to fit into the story line. I (and I hope other readers) believe this as a fundamental fact of life in all fiction - DON’T BELIEVE IT.
Concerning “historicl accuracy”, it just stunned me when I learned that for many Yankees “Gone With the Wind” was their main source of “historical fact.”
Living now in Shreveport LA (formerly Buffalo NY) I now know that life on the Plantation was not very pleasant even for Scarlet. Mosquitos, yellow fever, malaria, opressive heat, rain hurricaines, MS river flooding and constant perspiration.
Slaves were not all field hands and maids, nor whipped daily. Slaves were educators, skilled craftsmen, and did many other highly skilled jobs.
I did not learn this stuff from “Gone With the Wind”. As a “transplanted Yankee”, I have spent a lot of time learning about the history of the South. And most of it is not very romantic.
Comment by Frank Zavisca — 10.21.05 @ 9:11 am
Let’s hear what Dan Brown has to say about the “fact or fiction” question. Frank, did you check James White’s latest post (which I linked to in the Update last night), which links to audio of Brown?
http://aomin.org/index.php?itemid=845
Comment by La Shawn — 10.21.05 @ 9:36 am
There is a documentary (on either History Chanel, TLC or Discovery) that does a pretty good job of debunking the DaVinci Code. Recommended.
Comment by Ray Phelps — 10.21.05 @ 10:05 am
I agree with Matt. The DVC is poorly written, and I found the plot ridiculous. I hope that it bombs at the box office.
Comment by RepJ — 10.21.05 @ 10:15 am
There’s been some debate to the merits of “defending the Faith” in our youth group. This is the reason for it. And for the study of the Bible and apologetics. Every generation must mix experience (heavily emphasized these days) with reason.
I read this book with a solid understanding of scripture. And say it for what it was: Fiction. Those who continue on in their ignorance will use Da Vinci Code fuel for their fire.
Comment by suzanna — 10.21.05 @ 10:34 am
I’ve been keeping a log of my thoughts as I read it. It’s far worse than I thought it would be.
http://www.xanga.com/amphipolis
It is not fiction. It is propaganda.
Comment by Amphipolis — 10.21.05 @ 11:30 am
White contends: “You don’t do ‘research’ for years on material that is merely ‘fiction.’”
I disagree. Fiction is dreck if it is not believable. The “facts” on which Brown bases TDVC are centuries old. Has TDVC substantiated any of these “facts”? No. TDVC gives them no greater credence than they have ever enjoyed–it gives them run in front of a new generation, and it does so in an arguably entertaining way.
So why is TDVC so popular? I think it makes the essentially secular among us comfortable in their skins…
As for Brown’s writing style in TDVC… I enjoyed the fast pace and clipped chapters. Even if I wouldn’t like to see the style emulated, I think Brown makes it work. (For the record, nearly every person I know disagrees with me about this…) More importantly, the book’s writing style seems to me a trivial point among much weightier matters.
Cheers,
Comment by Moze — 10.21.05 @ 11:37 am
Amphipolis - Are you logging all chapters, or only a few? Can you send me a link to the first post?
Comment by La Shawn — 10.21.05 @ 11:49 am
I’m only logging chapters I have comments on. My next post will be a long one on chapter 60.
I think that the Da Vinci Code brings up some great questions than can be answered in a way that points right back to the Gospel. That’s the spirit in which I am commenting. I am on Xanga because that’s where my kids and their friends are. You have to scroll down and keep hitting next to get to the first post, this link might work for a while:
http://www.xanga.com/Amphipolis?nextdate=7%2f28%2f2005+23%3a2%3a11.297&direction=n
Comment by Amphipolis — 10.21.05 @ 11:59 am
Excellent analysis Amphipolis…
Comment by Moze — 10.21.05 @ 12:18 pm
LaShawn Barber wants to know if Christians know enough about the DaVinci Code.
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I agree with Moze. What serious writer sits down to write about a subject without researching it -even if it is fiction. I liken this to the extensive research and extreme amount of money spent to create a fictional movie about the Titanic.
I read TDVC and loved it. I enjoyed Brown’s writing style and was drawn in to the characters and the drama from the first page. I must confess that I had heard many of the claims the book makes before. It was quite interesting to have that theory woven into such a great tale. My faith was not challenged or shaken. I enjoy history (esp. Biblical and religious history).
The movie is never as good as the book, so I’m not really looking forward to it. But I do plan to see it.
Comment by KW — 10.21.05 @ 12:53 pm
Yesterday La Shawn Barber asked fellow Christian bloggers to write posts refuting the inaccuracies in the Da Vinci Code, a book by Dan Brown that is about to released as a movie starring Tom Hanks.
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Theologilinks
A few links of theological interest* from this week in the world of blogs: From Under the Acacias: ….pastor Suley wanted to baptise Yusuf, but his denomination wouldn’t baptise polygamists. They insisted that only the first wife was truly the…
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Moze: “More importantly, the book’s writing style seems to me a trivial point among much weightier matters.”
Moze, I respectfully disagree, although I believe that most people will agree with you. Style is extremely important, almost as important as the message. A slovenly written book does not deserve our attention. We deserve better quality thought and style from our writers, especially the popular ones. On the other hand, I could not read a well-written, racist book (assuming that such a monstrous thing could exist).
Comment by wyck — 10.21.05 @ 2:21 pm
La Shawn, ref #6
Just a thought: Treasury agents don’t learn to ID counterfeits by examining them, they do so by studying the real McCoy. Afterwards, anything else will trip their “funny” meter, even if they they can’t quite identify what it was at first.
I’m also thinking of the adage about good fruit from bad stock. While not always apt in most cases, in the case of Christian writers vs “christian” works, parents need to be extremely careful about exposing their kids to the dark side as it were.
To wit, I have no problems having my kids grow up on reading Lewis & Tolkien, being entertained by Star Wars/Trek (SW III is rather dubious) along with the classic Brothers Grimm, Fairy Tales & the Barbie video series, but I draw the line with Potter.
Granted, I haven’t read any of it, but I’ve got too many red alerts flashing in my head from what little I do know.
Unfair? Perhaps, but all the same unless my kids get sucked into it by their peers, I’d just as soon ban Potter from my household than have to guide them thru that experience.
We already have our hands full with getting Yu-Gi-Yo, Pokemon and friends out as it is now. As well as all the other trashy & ugly cartoons that kids seem so attracted to.
As always great posting and congrats on what I gather to be a fine job at the GodBlog & C-Span gig. You go girl!!!
Ciao
Comment by Andy — 10.21.05 @ 4:19 pm
Are Christians prepared for the Da Vinci code?
La Shawn Barber seems to be wondering if Christians are going to be knowledgeable enough about the innaccuracies in not only the book, but the upcoming movie. Though many readers of the book even question its literary merit, La Shawn…
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PS. Oh yeah, about the original topic — Da Vinci Code book/movie. Sensational dreck!!!
Listening to some of my accquaintances rave/ponder the book, only one point comes to mind from Satan’s perspective — Another One Bites the Dust.
It’s one thing if people had a firm grasp on Judeo-Christian history, it’s another when they like sheep uncritically just follow along because it “sounds” plausible and a best seller to boot. Sigh!
As for myself, I’m not at all inclined to pick up the book, let alone ever watch this flick. But if you debunk it, I’ll certainly look forward to enjoying your post.
Ciao
Comment by Andy — 10.21.05 @ 4:29 pm
If you want to answer the question about the woman in the last supper painting read this http://www.bornagainindia.com/jd/archives/35-The-Da-Vinci-Code.html
Comment by Joy. D — 10.21.05 @ 5:14 pm
Once Upon a Time
The popular Dan Brown novel, The DaVinci Code, which is a work of fiction claiming Christ was married to Mary Magdalene has now spawned a motion picture. La Shawn Barber is attempting to create a blogswarm on the subject.
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LaShawn,
Nice chatting with you (albeit briefly) at the Hewitt show broadcast during GBC.
Regarding TDvC, the Christian Research Institute (home of Hank Hanegraaf, the Bible Answer Man), has a book for sale called “The DaVinci Code: Fact or Fiction” the exposes many of the false claims of TDvC. Check it out at http://www.equip.org/store/details.asp?SKU=B775
On a slightly related topic, “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe” will be in theaters on December 9. This could be another opportunity for God bloggers to begin publishing a corpus of work in advance of the movie, except this time to highlight how the movies Messianic imagery and Christological themes (assuming Disney does not water down the content of the book).
Comment by Travis — 10.22.05 @ 12:55 am
LaShawn,
Check out the “The DaVinci Code: Fact or Fiction” by Hank Hanegraff and Paul Meier (see http://www.equip.org/store/details.asp?SKU=B775 for more details).
On a slightly related topic, it might also be a good time for God bloggers to begin building a corpus of work in advance of “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe”.
Comment by Travis — 10.22.05 @ 12:59 am
The Sacred Feminine in a World of… Men…
Now that Sony Pictures has announced a May 9, 2006 release of Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code, La Shawn Barber wonders how well Christians understand the fallacies and inaccuracies Brown used to weave the story of his best selling novel.
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Hey, gang,
For excellent resources on the theological issues regarding the Da Vinci Code, see the audio files of Pastor Ken Baugh’s sermon series on the DVC at http://www.frontline.to. He devoted something like 6 weeks to this a year or two ago.
Kevin
Comment by Kevin Morrow — 10.22.05 @ 9:48 am
You’ve been blogged — well I blogged about — and fully support — your challenge:
http://www.blogs4god.com/davincicode/lashawns_challenge
Comment by Mean Dean — 10.22.05 @ 10:16 am
Salman Rushdie went after Islamic sensibilities in The Satanic Verses (which Hollywood has never discovered), Nikos Kazantzakis wrote The Last Temptation of Christ which Martin Scorsese glamorized for the giant screen and now Ron Howard, little Opie, is going to update Cocoon with his production of The Da Vinci Code.
I don’t mean to sidestep the core of this debate, but wouldn’t everyone be in a greater dither if Oliver Stone were driving this project? Think of the malevolent and paranoid conspiratorial tone Master Stone could unleash.
Hollywood sure hates Mel Gibson and I expect Hollywood to love Ron Howard. And Tom Hanks ought to be the perfect Hollywood foil for the movie. After all, he spent such a long in the wilderness when his UPS plane went down.
That being said, I am interested in the debate concerning this latest assault on Christianity. I wonder why there hasn’t been a movie about the Shroud of Turin. On second thought, no I don’t.
Comment by Heliotrope — 10.22.05 @ 12:41 pm
LaShawn
Outstanding article. I will read the book and begin a side series of articles discussing various aspects of the book.
It’s not the primary purpose of the Pulpit Pimps blog, but it still presents a way for me to impact the Christian world (and maybe even the secular while I’m at it).
Thanks again. And do well with the articles.
Melvin Jones
Comment by Melvin Jones — 10.22.05 @ 1:23 pm
i made a blog entry called Duh Vinci Code talking about its major historical flaws. it’d be funny if the phrase Duh Vinci came up with searches, eh?
http://www.nathanhart.org/archive/000768.html
Comment by Nathan Hart — 10.22.05 @ 6:46 pm
To say the “Da Vinci Code” is bad for Christianity is like saying that Arthur Hailey’s “The Moneychangers” was bad for the Federal Reserve. Novels are fictional by definition. It’s just a shame that the great mass of people know nothing about a topic until it becomes the subject of a blockbuster novel or a hit movie.
Comment by Mike Hobart — 10.22.05 @ 11:58 pm
Just as there are no new sins, there are no new heresies. I would suggest reading up on the heresies the Church has fought since the day of the Resurrection. It would also be helpful to read up on the group Opus Dei which is slammed in Brown’s book — the group is devoted to fostering a Christ centered life.
What is most surprising to me is the number of folks I have spoken with who are church goers but who still have a generally positive response to Brown’s propaganda. These are the people I worry will be influenced by Brown’s canard and its Hollywood portrayal
Comment by PKO — 10.23.05 @ 10:13 am
I found the book to be a fun read, but have to agree that the writing was rather poor. He about lost me when going off on the relationship of the “little mermaid” to the “sacred feminine.” I enjoy Europe and especially European art/history so I enjoyed the manner in which he wove those aspects into the story. But fundamentally the book is fiction and should be viewed as such.
Comment by B Crandall — 10.23.05 @ 12:53 pm
Disney Cartoon Proves Accuracy of “The Da Vinci Code”
Happy Belated April Fool’s Day! The post title is absolutely false. I have previously posted my opinion of The Da Vinci Code but I haven’t read the book (and I seriously doubt I will waste my time to do so). I am, however, enjoying the detaile
Trackback by Mrs. Happy Housewife — 10.23.05 @ 3:47 pm
The Da Vinci Code relies primarily on the power of suggestion. It is not good enough to show its errors. Something has to be offered in its place.
Christian symbolism such as the blood of the lamb, Jesus’ teachings about himself, human guilt and the possibility of true forgiveness, the resurrection - these are the things we must bring into the discussion.
Comment by Amphipolis — 10.23.05 @ 8:26 pm
The Da Vinci Code
It is amazing how many otherwise intelligent people believe this garbage is fact.
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