Rogue

Come on, the things he says the Vatican did and what the Holy Grail is supposed to be.. that has got to ruffle some Christian feathers

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The Da Vinci Code

}SoC{Sumguy

not my feathers. iits a novel, not a history book.

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pigpen

I have no inclination whatsoever to read the Da Vinci Code (or however you spell it). The subject matter in general just doesn't interest me and I fail to see what all the fuss is about. It seems that the moment religion of any kind is made a topic of film or books or television shows or whatever, a big hullabaloo ensues and fur flies left and right. To me the whole Da Vinci thing is just one big yawner. It's fiction, so who cares?!

mplltt

I own both books, Davinci code and Angels and Demons, but every time that I read the Angels and Demons ( I am half way through) I get tired and fall asleep (MID-****ING-DAY) I am pissed off because it is so interesting. I thinnk I need a coffee every time I read or I am going to kill a catholic priest!!!!

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Thank you, I am impressed that you are forgiving enough to approach this line of reasoning.

mtatum4496

I read it, enjoyed it, and then put it away on the book shelf. While some of the suppositions in the text about early Christianity are interesting and sprinkled with enough references to perhaps encourage someone to delve into the history a little more, I do not consider this to be anything other than a novel.

All the fuss over it has seemed a bit too much. Of course, the fact that so many people want to kick up a ruckus about the book has no doubt helped the sales.

THEWAULRUS

of course i read it... take a look at my explanation of the jeuss bloodline and knights templar, mah friend. Angels Demons came before Da Vinci Code and it was a better book...

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mplltt

GO WAULRUS! I haven't even read the Davinci code yet, I am still on Angels and Demons, like I said, I feel like I can't relax and read, with Mozart playing, goddammit, I have to be hyper with stimulants like coffee!!!!!!!!

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Thank you, I am impressed that you are forgiving enough to approach this line of reasoning.

THEWAULRUS

Haha, ty no not really...coffee wont help

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Faydwyn

I read the DaVinci Code and saw the movie. Tom Hanks seem like an odd choice for the role and the book was better than the movie in my opinion. I actually borrowed the copy I read from a Catholic friend who said she didn’t know how much truth there really was in it, but that it was a good novel. (She’s not conservative if you hadn’t already guessed.) I agree with her.

Although it would be cool if it were true, I don’t really care enough about Christianity to put the amount of time into it to prove or disprove it. But I have done a little bit of research into early Christianity and it appears that not all early sects believed Jesus was divine. Paul’s sect and those that agreed with him won out in the end though.

As far as why it got a lot of Christians upset, a lot of it was that it questioned the divinity of Jesus. And it seemed to me that they toned this down in the movie by making Robert Langdon less sure about the whole thing. My view is that only those who aren’t secure in their beliefs are going to be in an uproar about these sorts of things. If you are sure Jesus is divine, for example, what difference does it make what a novel says? Additionally, why did the Da Vinci Code earn the ire of so many (even before it became a movie)? It’s not the only book to claim that Jesus was mortal or that he had a child(ren)?

Here is a good and humorous short essay that describes one person’s ideas about why it got some Christians upset.

Faydwyn

There’s a group of people who did the same thing with Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert Heinlein. (I think it’s called “The Church of all Worlds” or something like that.) Stranger in a Strange Land is one of my favorite books and contributed to what I to believe, but it’s still just a work of fiction. I mean it's a great book, but come on!