Posted on 06/25/2005 3:07:26 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
Almost two million Canadians who read the mega-selling book, The Da Vinci Code, ended the novel convinced that Jesus Christ fathered a line of descendants on Earth, a new survey suggests.
The coast-to-coast survey for the National Geographic Channel conducted by Decima Research found that, among 1,005 adults surveyed June 9-12, 16 per cent had read the book in the past two years.
Among those readers, 32 per cent believed the story that "a holy bloodline exists and that this secret has been protected through the ages by a dedicated society," the television channel announced yesterday.
The survey was conducted to coincide with the 15-hour broadcast Sunday on the National Geographic Channel of Da Vinci Code Sunday. Programming includes three back-to-back documentaries about the book by author Dan Brown. The three documentaries are, in total, five hours long and will be broadcast repeatedly on the digital channel from 1 p.m. until 4 a.m. Monday.
The Da Vinci Code was published in 2003 and has since sold more than 25 million copies in 44 languages. The novel suggests that Jesus and Mary Magdalene produced descendants. According to the plot, Jesus' heirs were able to maintain their secrecy over the centuries because of an international conspiracy; clues to unravelling all these mysteries can be found in various books, architecture and artworks, including paintings by Italian Renaissance master, Leonardo Da Vinci.
Trailers for the film are already being screened in theatres alongside the latest Star Wars film, although not one scene has yet been shot. Britain's Westminster Abbey has refused to allow director Ron Howard to shoot scenes from the film there because the church believes the book to be "theologically unsound."
(Excerpt) Read more at canada.com ...
Yeah, conspiracy theories abound. But does National Geographic typically give conspiracy-fantasy guys 15 hours of programming time to tout their defamatory anti-Christian fiction? Who's got an agenda here?
And where do I call, write, or e-mail to protest this crap?
I'll be impressed when someone predicts an event BEFORE it happens.
Hm?
Canadians are __________(fill in blank).
Good grief. It's fiction. What part of fiction can't they understand? Do they put stupid dust into the water in Canada?
Unfortunately the thesis cannot be proven unless they have found Jesus' twin brother [buried in India] and done DNA on that and some of the descendents. Jesus himself would be unavailable for DNA.
Don't go too easy on us now...
Kinda blows away the notion that they are so much more smarter then us.
Things just keep getting weirder and weirder.
________________ = gullible
Ignore them, they're the same folks who don't believe in a military and love their socialized health care........For now...HeHeHe...
Well if this article is correct, then for at least a third of them the phrase is staggeringly gullible!
I have to admit, I probably haven't given the 'DiVinci Code' a thorough chance to convince me of its merits. It's not as though I haven't attempted to watch the TV special,...it's just after listening to five minutes of somebody who obviously doesn't grasp the simple basics communicated in any one of four Scriptural gospels which have easily survived for a couple of Millenia, but instead attempts to now convolute an incredibly contorted schema of procreation by Christ and Mary Magdalene, simply misses the entire significance of being born again in the spirit by regeneration.
The theory doesn't even make it to a second grade level degree of sophistication. I don't understand why anybody would write or promote such a story, when all any uninformed person has to do is read 2 pages of the Bible to glean the opposite conclusion.
When you don't believe in anything you will fall for everything. Idiots
I know a lot of American's who think the book is true also. As far as National Geographic goes they have put on a lot of junk in the last couple years. Just recently they rehashed the whole "curse of King Tut's tomb" drivel. It may interest the general public but it is all a bunch of bull. Dan Brown's book fits right in with some of their other programming choices.
There was a notion?
I read a book that mentioned a place called Canada. Can that be true?
BTW, why is it that crop circles show up when Linda Moulton Howe is in town?
Good time to pick up "De-Coding DaVinci" by Amy Welborn.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1592761011/102-0072262-3758572?v=glance
I see Amazon has it (used) for under $6.50 now. And Amy Welborn is hugely entertaining (as well as smart as a whip.)
Canadian also should believe that Canada is the US fifty first State of the Union. Canada was allowed to independently govern as an experiment of how socialist state would look like if any of the lower fifty states dare to experiment it :)
One of these channels, I think it was A&E, has a show called "Beyond the Da Vinci Code" that totally blows this book out of the water and shows it for what it is. A thriller NOVEL. It contains very, very little in the way of history or truth.
I've read it. It's crap.
He compares it to "Lord of the rings" and other fictional works.
Though his zeal is pretty big, he also reads alot of the books that debunk the "Da Vinci Code" and is also big into both literary works supporting and critizing (and knocking down) the novel.
What I can't understand, is how anyone could think this is real?
Does anyone think Harry Potter is real?
One third of Canadians are too stupid to notice it is marketed as fiction.
Good time to pick up "De-Coding DaVinci" by Amy Welborn.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1592761011/102-0072262-3758572?v=glance
I see Amazon has it (used) for under $6.50 now. And Amy Welborn is hugely entertaining (as well as smart as a whip.)
Yea, right. And I suppose Erich von Daniken is a great investigative reporter too.
Fools.
Of course, Dan Brown and others have been making claims that the fiction is just a vehicle for the historical message, so whaddya expect.
I took a course about the High Middle Ages this past semester, and some of the students asked the prof if _The DaVinci Code_ was true. He laughed sarcastically and proceeded over the next half hour to mock practically every hypothesis the book presents, saying that it might be ok as fiction but that as history, it's absolutely preposterous, unreasonable garbage.
And this is at a very secular Tier 1 university, where many professors denigrate Christianity/Catholicism whenever given the opportunity.
I keep telling people it is a work of fiction but it doesn't seem to sink in to some people!
Tnx for the reference. I nearly picked it up at Waldenbooks a week ago, but having not read the Da Vinci Code I felt it would not be fruitful for me at this time. I have read many of the sources referenced by the author of the Da Vinci Code, though, and it is a fun subject to play with.
You got it right. Canadians are "blank". The really are.
2 Million AlQanadians from Canookistan can read ?
30% of readers????
That's like saying that 30% of UFO hobbyists believe in UFO's.
~66% of Canadians know it's fiction. And don't forget, nearly 50% of Americans believed Al Gore invented the Internet.
We've got our idiots, too.
>>>>>>I took a course about the High Middle Ages this past semester,>>>>>>
Is this about forty five year olds who smoke pot?
I liked Dan Brown's earlier novel (Angels and Demons), but I haven't read this book yet.
I love tales dealing with scholars, conspiracies, and antiquities: "Club Dumas", anything by Ecco or Lovecraft; even "Hudson Hawk". Heck, if it's got the Templars, secret Vactican archives, and cultists, I am so there.
I don't mistake such lurid tales, however entertaining, for reality, though, and don't see how anyone else could. I guess too many people are Biblically and historically illiterate.
"The Da Vinci Code" really is just a rehashing of "Holy Blood, Holy Grail", which has been out for ages: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0440136482/ref=pd_sim_b_5/104-5904540-8776758?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance
And 90+% of moonbat liberals think Oliver Stone's "JFK" is fact...
Wait a minute...you mean to tell me...!
I know I enjoyed the book as well! I was amazed the first time I saw people complaining and acting like it was history.
LOL,
My little cousin is into Harry Potter.
One of my friends has a son who is a huge Harry Potter fan, he says it helped develop his sons interest in reading, but he has since moved onto another book and a new interest which he reads often, daily and is a huge reader of.
The new book he is into is the bible, and all things involving christianity.
Its ironic since my friend isn't that religious but he loves the idea of having a kid who is becoming more and more socially conservative by the day. It gives him less to worry about it, now he just wishes his daughter could go the same route.
It's amazing - reminds me of the Tom/Scientology thread I was just on. This book is written as fiction, yet supposed news sources and documentaries and educators are touting it as non-fiction, as some new discovery, just like L. Ron's Dianetics. Barf. My Canadian friend (now officially a citizen here) loves this book, considers it truth written as fiction because the powerful church would try to squelch it if it were written as non-fiction. We can't even discuss it, because she is incredulous that I don't buy it hook, line and sinker as she does. And she has shared the book with all of her family, in the US and Canada. They agree, they love it, too. She routinely buys the book to give as gifts. She's a Catholic. That's one way the misguided understanding of it spreads. And that's how the book and it's author attack Catholicism and Christianity.
I would venture to say most of my professors and teachers either belived it is fact or some variation of it.
I did have 2 left wing moonbats who were totally against it though....but only because they thought it scapegoated communists and gays to much, and no one affialated with communists or being gay could ever have taken part.
From what those 2 nuts said, I think they thought it was all done by the "military industrial complex" and the GOP.
I've never had a teacher, in my life, who thought it was Lee Harvey Oswald acting alone.
And there are many others--remember "The Passover Plot"? Ludlum had one out, too--15 years ago? But Brown's a FAR CRY from Ecco! (Foucault & Rose can't be faulted on scholarship.) And thanks to one of the "Code" specials, I now realize that the most imaginative bits weren't even sprung from Brown's brow! Just can't wait to see how Hollywood ties up all the loose ends.
For 15 hours...there is someone in the top row of the NG who has motives here.
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