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Yet To Read It? So Shut Up

Incredible how strong some people's views are about books they have never read...

I have also not read The Da Vinci Code - yet. I have read many similar books though. I've read the Bible as well. I know the importance of the Book of Numbers and the difference between Jesus and St Paul. Most Christians do not.

In fact, most 'Christians' literally don't know the meaning of the word. And not a single one ever pauses to think THEY might be the one that hears, "I never knew you."

Well, some of them are in for a shock.

posted by MarkAnthonyAngel on August 13, 2004 at 6:17 AM | link to this | reply

I guess the thing here is that it comes to much the same conclusions about The Church and makes the same statements that have been made --

being fiction, there are certain aspects that stretch events and facts.

what we have here are attention getters.

it remains that more and more it is exposed that it was men who decided what we believe starting centuries after the life of this Yeshua ben Netzarim (how I call him) and that it was men who, through forceful means enforced what was believed for nearly one and a half millenia.

this was not the original intent of our early "Church Fathers".

again, this could be the beginning of change where people's beliefs and religion proceed beyond the millenia old and certainly less applicable belief system.

posted by Xeno-x on August 11, 2004 at 6:34 AM | link to this | reply

I have yet to read it.

I have heard it is based on the gnostic gospels and makes false claims about the dates those gospels were written. And various other holes that discredit its viability. Plus it is primarily a work of fiction.

posted by Budmannomore on August 11, 2004 at 4:41 AM | link to this | reply

I've been resisting it because too many people

have been shoving it in my face and saying, Here--see! This proves the Church! and other such nonsense. I'm reading A History of God by Karen Armstrong and it is very good.

posted by xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on August 10, 2004 at 10:53 PM | link to this | reply

I read it a few weeks ago.

I had the same shock of recognition as I read it. The way it synthesizes the female principle, which was expunged by the mainstream church, makes much sense.