The Da Vinci Code does about the same - it assumes everybody wants to be sexually active for only pleasure's sake, and that no one in history could have done good deeds...
So why not create a website - GET AIDS TODAY -- HAVE AS MUCH SEX AND DRUGS AS YOU WANT...
That appears to be the moral heading of the book and movie -- that great people in history really were not great...
But there is a fact that no one can dismiss -- the Twelve men went off and formed a religion that today has eclipsed almost all other accomplishments. It was the Christian Church that has given us a correct Calendar and designated where time begins (the birth of Christ).
One of those Twelve is proven to have established the Christian Church in India -- 2000 years ago, and 6 of those churches that were established 2000 years ago still exist today.
That was by the apostle who doubted that Jesus rose from the dead until he put his hands into his wounds...
Unfortunately for Dan Brown, Ron Howard, and Tom Hanks, works such as those that brought about the Saint Thomas Christians are not fiction but fact. Those Christians in Southern India did have help 5 centures later when a Bishop Mar Thomas was sent to them. Then it was another 1100 years before the Portugese came to India (and English)...
So the Saint Thomas Christians existence seems to contradict the movie and book just by themselves.
If one gets into the tradition of the life of Saint John the Evangelist, one would find even more reason to doubt a pile of Dan Brown writings (those BROWN writings).
To me, cr@p is cr@p... Time to get off the cr@pper...
That's red herring. We are talking about the DaVinci Code, not Mother Teresa. And you may not like it, but what Brown has done is use theories and ideas that have existed for a couple of thousand years. He uses actual groups to build his story on. And yes, he creates his story out of whole cloth. You may not agree with those theories and stories, and I suspect few outside of the Gnostic circles would, but they are still there.
The Da Vinci Code does about the same - it assumes everybody wants to be sexually active for only pleasure's sake, and that no one in history could have done good deeds...
Well, lets face it, sex is a very powerful instinct, and today at least is rarely engaged in simply to procreate. I suspect it never has. And where do you get that part about no good deeds? I missed that part in the book.
That was by the apostle who doubted that Jesus rose from the dead until he put his hands into his wounds...
Few Catholics today believe in the complete literal writings of the Bible. Most understand that the writings of the time were generally done with metaphors. It is still an ageless book of wisdom, but again, most don't take everything in it literally.
So the Saint Thomas Christians existence seems to contradict the movie and book just by themselves.
I don't have a problem with that. I didn't buy and read it for any history lesson. I wanted a good thriller with some historical background. Both of his Robert Landon books do just that.
To me, cr@p is cr@p... Time to get off the cr@pper...
You do have this strange obsession with feces. BTW, have you read the book?