LUCIFER LETTER TO RON HOWARD, DIRECTOR OF THE DA VINCI CODE

Dan Brown’s bestseller fiction novel, The Da Vinci Code, suggests Mary Magdalene was Jesus’ wife, the mother of Jesus’ offspring, the real Holy Grail and the person meant to lead the church. The book conjectures that just about everything taught about Christ today is a lie, and the truth has been secretly kept from the world because the Bible Gospels promoting the deity of Christ were written in antiquity to hide and cover up the truth. The story casts sinister and wicked shadows on the Roman Catholic Church by implying it murdered to keep the secret about Jesus concealed. Ron Howard's film masquerades fiction as would-be truth creating false assumptions, asking contrived questions, adding further deep confusion to the Gospels and challenging the very divinity of Christ in the name of entertainment. The film calls the church a liar as it challenges the trustworthiness of the scriptures and convolutes the word of God for profit. The myths and legends, which the Da Vinci Code are based on, were written hundreds of years after Jesus by totally unreliable sources. Those who put the New Testament together were faultlessly careful of the books they included and wanted to make absolutely certain there were no myths or lies. They selected writings only from those people who personally knew Jesus, were eyewitnesses to Jesus, saw his miracles, knew his teachings, and knew exactly what his mission was. They saw enough truth first-hand to have sufficient faith that they were willing to be martyred through terrible deaths for defending the divinity of Christ and for fulfilling Jesus’ great commission of spreading the gospel. In reality, there is really no code to decode because the Da Vinci Code is total fictionalized folly and false. It is only smoke…and mirrors. It is all a satanic scheme.

1) When was the last time you saw a bar of soap in a restroom? It's been a long time for me. I see liquid soap dispensers. Yet, in the Louve restroom there is bar soap conveniently handy for imbedding a GPS tracking device.

2) If you were a police detective investigating a crime scene do you think you would turn on the lights? In this book the lights are consistently out. Do you think the chief officer of security could figure this out? I do.

3) In the book Langdon chooses to use a restroom that is located down a very dark corridor ( again: How about turning on some lights?). He manages to find it hidden behind decorative screens. Once in the restroom though, lighting isn't a problem. Huh?

4) The corridor is so dark that later he and Sophie can hide themselves in the darkness but yet, Langdon was able to see enough to find the room in the first place.

5) Sophie just happens to find a small key and chain hidden in a crack in the frame of a painting. Amazing, since the lights are still not on. Also, it is not at all clear that clues given by Sophie's grandfather would have led her to that painting. Finding the key is complete serendipitous.

6) Sophie manages to find a secret passageway in a summer home that she had visited throughout her childhood. So....she manages to notice this secrete passageway at the age of 20 just when her grandfather was having a secret ceremony, but as an highly inquisitive child she never found this?

7) Then there is the outlandish philosophy. Would anyone seriously believe that humans became warlike because they abandoned female goddess worship?

The book reads like a Grishom novel with lots of chasing but filled with cliches.

I will likely finish the book but do not recommend it to anyone else.

I agree with this Lucifer Letter. The letter is definitely written in a vitriolic way to get folks to think. It is not the author of the letter who is poisoning our society with trash movies, it is Hollywood.
As a Christian conservative I observe these major celebrities create a well-publicized fictional movie with the sole purpose of questioning the divinity of our Lord. I find it interesting that when a fellow Christian writer challenges them he is criticized rather then the purveyors of this blasphemy.
These movie-makers know exactly what they are doing and why. Christians have the moral and spiritual responsibility to remind them of the harm they inflict to the souls of others.
Being silent, being timid, making excuses for their behavior and criticizing those who have the backbone to counter such so-called entertainment amounts to helping grease the film viewer’s pathway into hell.
Rather then support these movie-makers we should be praying for the souls of the people they lead astray because of their cavalier attitude towards the almighty God of the universe?

This one was okay, but rather than just being an indictment of Ron Howard and "The Da Vinci Code," it should have been a general indictment of many Hollywood films. "The Da Vinci Code" wasn't the only recent film to insult Christianity or portray believers in Christ in a stereotypical manner ("The Legend of Zorro" and "V for Vendetta" both come to mind). There should have certainly been mention of "The Da Vinci Code," but it would have been better if it also specifically targeted other films and their directors.

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