" Well said. And the truth is, it is that part of the fiction story that the author contends is true."
Not precisely correct. Brown states the locales, secret societies, and historical frameworks are true. The geographies are simple, the secret societies (Opus Dei, Masons, Knights Templar, etc), and the mythologies from the crusades are all verifiable. The idea that Christ married and had children is preposterous and is not supported by scripture. Brown has simply taken a page from the playbooks of Ludlum, LeCarre, Clancy, Clavell and others by couching a well spun yarn in historical fact.
"National Treasure" is another example of a good fictional yarn spun well.
God knows our hearts and is not mocked.
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Brown has taken liberties with the whole basis of Christianity, and is being promoted as a film that will show you 'everything your father taught you about Christianity is wrong'. Brown has not clarified where his alleged facts stops and his fiction begins. If Brown is willing to admit there is nothing to the theory that Christ and Mary had a child and other such blasphemous claims, I might give him a pass. But the promotion of the book/movie indicate otherwise.
Opus Dei isn't a secret society though. There are Opus Dei colleges in several locations. They just opened a new one in NYC, as I recall.
The idea that Christ married and had children is preposterous and is not supported by scripture.
Yep. Sad thing is, some have bought into it being 'historical but suppressed fact'.