Since this is so controversial. . .

[Erinwilcox]

What are your thoughts on the "Da Vinci Code"? Since the last time that I merely claimed to have strong opinions regarding a subject matter everyone automatically assumed that the opinions were negative (why, brethren, why? ), I won't claim to have any opinion on this topic as of yet. I realize that there are many people who are taking the book and using as the basis for some of their beliefs. Any thoughts?

 

[Cajun Huguenot]

The author is an ok writer, but the book is propaganda for goddess worship and very anti-Christian.

It is an anti-Christian, conspiracy theory that that is entertaining to read, and (like most conspiracy theories) it has enough half-truths and partial truths mixed in with pure fabrication to convince some unlearned people of its truthfulness.

I read it to see what the whoopla was about and these are my thoughts on it.

In Christ,
Kenith

 

[drstevej]

It's a rehash of Holy Blood Holy Grail written in the style of a novel. A fictional style suits the author's bending of facts!

review

The ever-rising tide of sales of ''The Da Vinci Code'' has lifted some pretty odd boats, and none odder than the dodgy yet magisterial ''Holy Blood, Holy Grail,'' by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln. A best seller in the 1980's, ''Grail'' is climbing the paperback charts again on the strength of its relationship to Dan Brown's thriller (which has, in turn, inspired a crop of new nonfiction books coming out this spring, from ''Breaking the Da Vinci Code'' to ''Secrets of the Code: The Unauthorized Guide to the Mysteries Behind The Da Vinci Code''). ''The Da Vinci Code'' is one long chase scene in which the main characters flee a sinister Parisian policeman and an albino monk assassin, but its rudimentary suspense alone couldn't have made it a hit. At regular intervals, the book brings its pell-mell plot to a screeching halt and emits a pellet of information concerning a centuries-old conspiracy that purports to have preserved a tremendous secret about the roots of Christianity itself. This ''nonfiction'' material gives ''The Da Vinci Code'' its frisson of authenticity, and it's lifted from ''Holy Blood, Holy Grail,'' one of the all-time great works of pop pseudohistory. But what seems increasingly clear (to cop a favorite phrase from the authors of ''Grail'') is that ''The Da Vinci Code,'' like ''Holy Blood, Holy Grail,'' is based on a notorious hoax.

 

[McWilliams]

Oh well, I dont mind being thought of as rigid, narrow minded or whatever. My thoughts are about the importance of using much discernment about what we take into our minds!
Our pastor spoke very strongly about it and called it 'blasphemous'! I've never read it or even a review of it, but then I dont need to. Reading time is too precious to clutter it up with anything that doesnt glorify God! Isnt that a mandate by the way, to glorify God in everything we do?

 

[cygnusx1]

I prefer the Bible Code

 

[BBAS 64]

Good Day, Erin

James White has been doning a series of blogs on this book, you can read them here:

http://www.aomin.org/index.php?catid=2&blogid=1

I have found them most helpful, as I have yet to read the book.

Peace to u,

Bill

 

[Imblessed]

Some things just aren't worth bothering about. My sister-in-law asked my husband and I about it. I really think she was baiting us to see what our reaction would be. She's pretty negative about christianity in general, even though she says she's not. She told us she had read it and thought it was a fabulous book and asked what we thought of it. I told her I hadn't read it but I had heard that it was pretty good fiction. She really wanted me to get all upset and tell her how horrid it was, and how it misrepresented the gospel and all that....just so she could turn it back on us, and accuse us of being uptight over a "fiction" book. I wouldn't give her the satisfaction.

Considering the junk that's being passed off in the christian bookstores as real theology......maybe we should be more upset at that!!!!

 

[Erinwilcox]

Personally, I have not read the book. However, a co-worker of my father's has and seems to hold it on equal if not higher terms than the Bible. Because of the discussion that this has sparked (he asks my father his questions), I have learned that the book claims that Jesus married Mary Magdalene and had a child with her, among other things. Many people are taking things like these and believing them to be facts. To my knowledge, Dan Brown has not come forth and quashed the idea that his book is the true historical account of Christ.

 

[calmcoolandelected]

I read the book earlier this year. It's a thriller, for sure, for the first half until you realize what it is *really* about. I don't know very much about Catholicism so that really isn't my beef. I am trying to figure out how to say this delicately....the premise, IMHO, was that there is something other than Jesus Christ that brings you closer to God. That is idolatry, pure and simple.

CC&E

 

[Imblessed]

you know what's odd?

even those people who hate what the book is about will admit that it's well written and exciting to read.

 

[ClementofRome]

Considering the junk that's being passed off in the christian bookstores as real theology......maybe we should be more upset at that!!!!

I agree. Da Vinci Code...Left Behind. Six of one, 1/2 dozen of another? Just asking...

 

[ClementofRome]

Better yet, be outraged at what is being passed off as Christian scholarship by the Jesus Seminar people that is readily available at the popular bookstores. Crossan, Borg, Funk and company have the market cornered on New Testament scholarship and it is equally fictitious as The Da Vinci Code.

You know, scandal sells. It always has and it always will. I suspect that if Christians did not get themselves all in a wad everytime another scandal was put out to market, the market would be much smaller. Remember The Last Temptation of Christ? A fairly lousy movie that got loads of press and screen play because Christians came unglued over it.

I am a huge Tom Hanks fan,....I will probably wait til the movie comes out on dvd, but I do want to see Hanks in the lead role. As for the book,.....definately a thriller. I took the rest as fiction.

 

[mlqurgw]

I honestly don't get too concerned about what causes an uproar in the religious world. Religion is always about things, truth is about a person, the Lord Jesus Christ. People focus on things because they don't really want to deal with Christ.

 

[JJB]

A friend of mine has told me that her mom read DaVinci Code. Her mom is so taken with it, that she believes it!

I do not envy Dan Brown with all his money and fame. After all, at the end of his life he will be standing and answering to our Holy God about this book.

 

[Paleoconservatarian]

I have read the book, and if this is the "masterpiece" that rallies those who hate God, then we don't have much to worry about. We're not up against anything very serious here. Let's call the Da Vinci Code for what it is: candy. It's sweet, keeps the reader excited, but has no content and isn't very good for you. Any old bum who has the time to spare can refute the controversial claims about Christ and history. All in all, I don't see this book as something meriting the panic and alarm we Christians have granted it... that's what Brown wants from us. Instead, we ought to treat it as the tripe that it is. But we should be praying for those who believe the claims of a cotton-candy fiction writer.

 

[Paleoconservatarian]

I am a huge Tom Hanks fan,....I will probably wait til the movie comes out on dvd, but I do want to see Hanks in the lead role.

I dunno... Tom Hanks doesn't remind me of "Harrison Ford in Harris tweed."

 

[ClementofRome]

I dunno... Tom Hanks doesn't remind me of "Harrison Ford in Harris tweed."

True, but he has played so many various and sundry roles, so might as well chalk up another one! But with Harrison Ford, I could never get Star Wars out of my mind!

 

[lmnop9876]

haven't read it, and don't intend on reading it.

 

[pinkieposies]

Considering the junk that's being passed off in the christian bookstores as real theology......maybe we should be more upset at that!!!!

Haha! You would think so, wouldn't you?

I never read it, so I don't really know what it is about, nor do I care to waste time finding out from what I've heard...

But what about the "Left Behind" series? I think they are works of pure literary perfection! I'd prefer them over the DiVinci Code any day! {Hehe, just kidding...My husband and I see the movies in Hollywood everytime we go in there; I always joke that we should at least try them out before we judge them }

.:Erin:.​