Posted: 5/15/2006 3:51:35 PM EDT
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Davinci code in 60 seconds? Would someone please explain to me what all the hubbub is about. I mad the mistake of listening to a talk show about it and spent the day looking at high res images. Here is what I get from the radio show. 13 disciples (I count twelve plus Jesus) extra hand. ( I can account for all hands belonging to a specific person) knife. (I don’t see what the big deal is about it. sure it’s held “funny” but not threatening or in any way other than “wrong”) second and sixth heads from the right looks feminine. Sixth figure and Jesus wearing same color clothing (most figures are wearing the same color clothing, blue, pink, red, tan and green.) High fi image..(click on the tiny orange 2) dot so please help a brother out and tell me what the big deal is. |
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Its extremely simple, all the paintings and sculptures have hidden meanings saying that you should dress up in robes and wear masks and have group sex. I'm not kidding thats really what the book says. You haven't read it? Save yourself the trouble and just read the last 5 pages at the book store. It was pretty lame, the one about the fake NASA space rock was better. |
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From carm.org: The Da Vinci Code, by Dan Brown, achieved status on the New York Times best seller list for several months after its release in March of 2004. It is the story of the history-changing secret that Jesus was not divine, was married to Mary Magdalene, had children, that the Christian church altered the Bible, that it invented Jesus' divinity as it demonized the sacred-feminine in order to gain power and influence, and that the secret is held by a sect of the Catholic Church that goes to extreme lengths to preserve the secret, lest it lose its power and influence. The Da Vinci Code takes its title from the artist/inventor Leonardo Da Vinci, the former head of a secret society known as the Priory of Sion who, through the centuries, has been keeping the truth alive. The book mentions The Holy Grail, which is supposed to be Mary Magdalene herself, and attempts to draw the comparison between the traditional view of the Grail as a cup (container) from which Jesus drank at the Last Supper, and Mary Magdelene's body as a "container" for life; namely, Jesus' offspring. Therefore, the quest for the Holy Grail is really the quest to kneel at the bones of Mary which have been preserved by the secret society through the centuries. The Da Vinci Code is well written and entertaining. But, we must take it more seriously than a standard fiction book, because the author claims it is accurately researched and based on factual information. If Brown had stated in the introduction of his book that his material is conjecture, fiction, and not meant to be factual, then we'd have no problem with it at all. But no such disclaimer exists..... |