Everyone is making such a big deal about the devinci code. turn the book over and it says as plain as it will get 'fiction' why make a big deal about a good piece of ficional literature? i am pagan but the book didnt convert me, pagans dont convert, christians do. its just a good book.
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yes. i dont see the big deal about that book...or the bible for that matter, its just words, ya know?
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it is HERETICAL. I heard parts of it read and I could not believe my ears it is a joke. Christians do not need to worry.\n\nThe "Gospel of Judas": National Geographic Attacks Christianity With Biased "Research"\nhttp://www.godandscience.org/apologetics/gospel_judas.html
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I dont think that it should be banned, even fiction has it's own lessons we can live by. I also believe some of it was actually true. I believe dan brown says some of the book was actually none-fiction and fiction. I think what we can do is, take what we can and believe in and leave the rest behind. I believe that in everything there is a symbolic message for us to understand....
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If you do a little anthropological or sociological research on religions, you will learn that *all* religions require rituals (or sacred ceremonies) and priests (or other officiants) to perform those rituals.\n\nAs for "The DaVinci Code" ... Its a work of **fiction**!  Ie, not real.
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I don't have a copy of it here but I would like to remind you - and the rest of the ummah worldwide - that it was a work of _fiction_! Like the DaVinci Code. I've read almost every fictional thing Rushdie has written and he never just sticks in sotto voce comments that are 'Rushdie's idea'. So you'll find that this comment is also put in the mouth of a fictional character.\n\nReally! You need to learn the difference between fiction and non-fiction! Check Wikipedia or something.
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Finally, a book with some truth to it.\n\nYou need to understand that only the characters, their actions, and the plot is fictional.  \n\nThe things which are making you think twice about are the actual facts.  Just so you know for instance, Venus does make a pentagram across the sky (thank you astronomy 101), the Priory of Sion is factual (thank you masonic history studies), catholic schools used to not allow left handers to write with their left hand (in medical terms, the left eye is called "oculus sinister" the left hand is called "manual sinister", the left foot is called "pedis sinister").  Catch the drift??  Left is evil, (in it's root word which comes from Latin) "thank you 4 years of latin".\n\nI hope the book helps you understand that history is written by the winners.  In Jesus's time, he was not the only person selling a new religious philosophy.  There were many others.  So you had the chance to "pick the new fad".  Why do you think it took 1300 years after his death for a catholic church to form?\n\nThe book should not make you drop religion, Dan Brown does not suggest that, and it's included with the book and it appears on his web page.  Instead, it should help you understand history a little more.\n\nIn case you didn't know, his previous book 'Angles & Demons' should be read before 'The DaVinci Code'.
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Christianity being hopelessly self-contradictory to begin with, it's not all that amazing that you heap more contradictions on top of it to create your own special witches' brew of a religion.  It's basically what every so-called "christian" does.  \n\nSure, the bible was altered.  Over and over again.  Compiled from scraps, edited, misinterpreted, mistranslated, edited again.  The result is a document that one would have to be technically insane to take seriously, let alone "literally."  It's fascinating legendary fiction, and I read it for entertainment at least as much as the average "christian" reads it for enlightenment.  But it's absolutely crazy to try to rationalize your actions based on texts from the bible.  You might just as well look for precedent for everything you do in the works of Edgar Allen Poe.\n\nAs for "magick," "Christ" himself, or rather the historical personage(s) from whom the legend of the gospels is partially drawn, would certainly qualify as a "magician" or holy man of the standard Middle Eastern type.  He'd probably be amused to know that people continue to worship his image, conflated with legendary elements from pagan mystery cults, to this day.
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The Da Vinci Corrode - An Opinion Piece by Schneb\n\nI am amazed at how gullible people are at believing the so-called "facts" that this book brings up. Out of thin air! 80 gospels written!? And Constantine only chose 4, then corrupted them? First, including all the false gnostic gospels, there was hardly a quarter of that amount. Second, Constantine had nothing to do with the Canon of scripture.\n\nDon Brown states through the main character that it was the council of Nicea that voted to say that Jesus was God--and that it was a "close vote". Yeah, a close vote of 316 to 2. Wow, how close. Funny, though, a few months ago they discovered in Megiddo, the oldest Christian church dating back to the 2nd century. 100 years before the council of Nicea did their "close vote", we see a mosaic dedication that reads, "dedicated to the God Jesus Christ". This belief was confirmed by the 2nd century writings of Ignatius, Polycarp, Justin Martyr, Irenius and Clement of Alexandria (again, 100 years before Nicea).\n\nAnd then he has the gall to say there were true gospels in the Dead Sea Scrolls. Man, this guy is delusional. There is not ONE mention of Jesus in ANY of the Dead Sea Scrolls. Yet people are eating this nonsense up.\n\nMary was Jesus' mother, and He told John, while on the cross, to take her into his home and take care of her. Mary Magdalene was there as well. If they were married, Jesus would have provided for her as well. Do you think after the resurrection that Jesus would have known that Mary M. was pregnant with their child? Yet, when He spoke to her, she called Him "teacher", not "husband", and neither spoke of activity in the womb. A little common sense is needed here.\n\nIf you don't want to believe, then say so. But don't base it on ignorant revisionist history like the Da Vinci Code. Looks like the world is all ready for the coming deception...\n\n2 Thessalonians 2:11-12\nFor this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
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Why is "The DaVinci Code" not fiction anymore? I missed that announcement...Anyhoo, if you want to hear solid evidence for Christ, I suggest reading The Case For Christ by Lee Strobel. I am reading it right now, so I can't tell you too much about it, but he talks to all sorts of scholars, some Christian Bible Scholars, some atheists like himself. He presents the evidence (eyewitness, documentary, corroborating, rebuttal, scientific, psychological, circumstantial, and fingerprint evidence). I'm still in the chapter about eyewitness evidence, but it is really, really good. Reading this is a great way to get multiple views, so you can choose.
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No one can know the mind of God, because I don’t think anything written in ANY religious book is from a divine source, it’s from people who were trying to control the status quo in whatever time it was written.  It had more to do with politics than it did worship.
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I've read quite a bit of it, and the more I read the more I realize how utterly bogus it is when taken literally.\n\nOh, and I think "jackiedj8952" ment to say you needed to have your ears poisoned and be brainwashed by a preacher or someone. That's what she ment by "spiritual ears". \n\nShe's right in a way, you first need someone to tell you that this book is perfect in everyway and if you don't believe in it you will go to hell, because without that it'll just be another book of fantasy and make believe.\n\nI encourage christians to be honest with themselves and go here to give your ex-christian testimony:\n\nhttp://exchristian.net/
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First and foremost of all, the "DaVinci Code" is a work of fiction; however, within its pages it contains informations based on historical facts and/or theories.  Now, as to the question asked:\n\nThis is a very grave matter to be discussed because, the very core of this topic can very well destroy, not only the Roman Catholic Church but also, the whole Christianity.  Still, one cannot deny the fact that, the "what-if" can be very possible.\n\nThere are things which were not clear about Jesus as presented in the Christian Bible, and that part is what made people starting to ask these "what-if" questions.  The Bible did state that, Jesus "loved" Mary Magdalene more than his followers; thus, what is meant by this "love"?  Indeed, a very likely hint, isn't it?\n\nSo, what we are left are two choices:\n\n- Stand firm in the Christian Faith and, consider this "DaVinci Code" as just another nonsense.\n\n- Venture beyond the "point of no-return"...
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the problem is,if anyone tries to produce an honest translation if ever there was or whether it would mean a rat's back side,he will be deemed a hypocrite by the main stream scholars or religious teachers. Maybe Iran may put a price on his head even same as the Satanic Verses author Salman Rusdie. \nThis is because if anyone can prove their holy book to be crap, then the religion will lose its hypnotic grip on their believers.It will then have the effect of the Da Vince code on the frail christian's myths and strength.
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No. I tried very hard. Verse by verse. The more you read the more convinced you are of the cover-up. Religions (islam and judaism as well, not only christianity) are scams. Why do you think everybody writing against religions is under a ton of threats? When you hold the truth you are not afraid of anyone talking about it...are you? If you are running a scam...you behave like they do now with DaVinci Code movie out. They are afraid so there's your answer about truth and the bible and the nothing in common they have.
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I thought the DVC was a good entertaining read, but thats about the sum of it. I cant undrstnd people who get so obssessed with it, its not a work of fact, it a work of fiction mixed with a little folklore and grail legend, and was never meant to be anything else. \n\nAnd DK, to say the Bible is a work of fiction is merely an OPINION, misguided though it may be, and NOT a statement of fact.
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i think its a great book and it opens peoples eyes even though it fiction, i think that a lot of it might be not to say true but a bit convincing. I think that the church hides lots of things and the bible is just a book written with the things they want us to know. I think that some of the books that have not been included in the bible are taken out for reasons that would make us think twice about the entire world and the entire religion thing. The same way that it would make us change the way we see Jesus.
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I totally agree with you.  They don't want people to see the movie, so they go on the news and say don't go see it....but then people see it!!  I digress - they are afraid that if people form their own opinions and see that what they have been taught from a young age might not be true.  If the church has nothing to worry about, why are they so pissed off?  Why can't they understand that this book (and then movie) are labeled as fiction?