[Darkwolf377]

I'm so very glad someone has written this piece--it's what I've been saying all along. As an atheist I have a unique vantage point in that so many people have come to me expressing their love for this book and find their own attitudes toward the church embedded in it.

As soon as I heard about Brown's story (and while I got bored reading the book, up to the point when I tossed it), I kept wondering about how the meaning of Christ's life had to be twisted to make the points in the book.

A few years ago someone wrote a book called The Hidden Christ. It was written to check the veracity of certain facts about Christ, and you'd be surprised that in this case the writer was pretty fair--he disputed some things, seemed to accept some of the stories out of Holy Blood, Holy Grail (Mary being married), yet he could find no evidence that the Resurrection was made up--he discounted SOME of the accepted beliefs, but believed some of the more incredible ones.

I bring this up because it was gratifying to see in that book that the author pushed the fact (NEVER acknowledged these days by secularists) that Christ was the first religious figure to accept women as equals to men, having them as friends and trusted associates, to the point where we know their names to this day. Does that sound like a faith that's trying to erase the contributions of women? Dan Brown has to invent all kinds of stories to claim it is.

[the invisib1e hand]

truthiness

that's some word.

[rawcatslyentist]

Ya mean, he's a towel?

[GiovannaNicoletta]

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[A CA Guy]

A little birdy told me this was all a true story.

[MissAmericanPie]

This should be no surprise, we are told in the last days there will be scoffers. Jesus himself said, "When I return will I find one believer?". We are told there will be a spirit of strong delusion sent on mankind eventually.

The carnal mind understands nothing spiritual, and those with the carnal mind are merely a species of animal possessing a higher level of intelligence among all the species on the planet. To this man all things spiritual are foolishness and we know that this type of man and this type of thinking will be the norm the closer the time comes for the arrival of the Messiah.

Pardon me for rejoicing at these things, because to me it means good times are not far behind.

[LukeL]

While it is called a work of fiction, the story behind it is regarder as fact by many people. I saw a special about "secrets of the bible" on discovery channel about 6 years ago and one of the segments was about the legend of the Davinci Code and the Knights Templar. They had people on their who believed it was true and the angle of the story was that it was indeed true.