"Da Vinci Code" graffiti appears on door of Catholic Church

Bozeman Daily Chronicle ^ | June 8, 2006 | Beth Slovic

[NYer]

A vandal or vandals spray-painted words from "The Da Vinci Code" on the front doors of the Holy Rosary Catholic Church on Main Street late Tuesday night or early Wednesday morning.

A groundskeeper at the church discovered the graffiti around 11 a.m. Wednesday and was visibly disheartened.

A funeral was scheduled to take place at the church in the afternoon.

The message sprayed in black paint read, "So DARK the con of man." That same message is a clue in the plot of "The Da Vinci Code," the best-selling novel by Dan Brown that has been made into a movie.

The grafitti also included a 2-foot-diameter black circle on the brick to the right of the spray-painted doors.

Shortly after discovering the graffiti, members of the church called in a worker to remove the words and the circle. As of Wednesday afternoon, only the circle was faintly visible.

[b4its2late]

Nuts are everywhere.

[Kenny Bunkport]

Dan Brown, put down that spray can!

[Coleus]

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[eastsider]

But it's only a movie!

[siunevada]

So DORK the con of Dan.

[Tax-chick]

Goofballs.

[Antoninus]

Hey this is just like all that anti-Semitic vandalism that happened after The Pasison of the Christ was released!

Oh, wait...

[redhead]

Dang. Why aren't these little blankety-blanks vandalizing some of the UGLY modern churches? (Yes, I know they shouldn't be doing it to ANY, but seeing their depredations on these lovely edifices is just heartbreaking...)

[jude24]

There's a Catholic church that I jog past fairly frequently. There was a sign leading to a "Catholic bookstore." Some genius decided to paint a swastika on it - and did so backwards.

The next day, the entire sign was spray-painted ver.

[Zero Sum]

HATE CRIME!!!!

/quasi-liberal temper tantrum

[OneWingedShark]

So DORK the con of Dan.

Now here's an interesting clue. ;)

[OneWingedShark]

Probably because the backwards swastika is an american-indian (Cherokee, I believe) symbol representing peace. {It was formed by breaking two arrows twice and crossing them in a swastika-like pattern.}

[trisham]

Nuts are everywhere.

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That sums it up.

[Coleus]

but seeing their depredations on these lovely edifices is just heartbreaking...) >>

yea, it sure is. the reason why they don't deface the modern churches is that they know their graffiti would be making an improvement so it wouldn't be worth the effort.

[redhead]

Heh!

[NYer]

But it's only a movie!

Not anymore, it's not.

[Victoria Delsoul]

So not everyone believes is a fantasy, huh? Just a movie... nothing to it.

[jude24]

Probably because the backwards swastika is an american-indian (Cherokee, I believe) symbol representing peace. {It was formed by breaking two arrows twice and crossing them in a swastika-like pattern.}

I doubt if that was the imagery the graffiti artist intended.