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?
Why waste my time...
So just because I use SATIRE and HUMOR to make fun of people who invent things and claim it is historic fact is not a problem with me... I don't think I have a fixation with feces -- I am just using the BROWN analogy to poke fun at Brown's work - that's all.
If you want to have another opinion, that's fine.
I have thousands of posts on Freerepublic - alot on Pro-Life, some on Defense weapons, some on the military (Supporting them), etc. And I do suffer from FOOT-IN-MOUTH disease.
But only the SATIRE and HUMOR on DAN BROWN and his book and the movie has brought out talking about feces. If you can find a couple of hundred of posts that prove otherwise and do not talk about DAN BROWN and HIS BROWN WORK, then I welcome the rebuttal...
As for the literal aspect of the gospel writings, those have stood the test of time.
More interesting Science would go into the investigation of the Shroud of Turin.
For example, the Lame Stream Media only reported the negative things about research about that.
What NASA found about the Shroud is quite interesting.
The 2000 year old pollen that was only found in Palenstine 2000 years ago is interesting if the Shroud of Turin is a fake...
Seems those who like to throw stones at the church are very selective of what they believe about science and what they don't believe.
There is the fact that there is the bloods of countless martyrs who braved the Roman circus because of their beliefs.
Many things have been scientifically proven about those times. For example, the gospel writer Luke is proven to be buried in Padua, Italy.
What you call Agnostic is tradition to many.
The story of the Saint Thomas Christians is not Agnostic History, but History...
For the Roman Catholic Church or Christianity to be founded on ugly lies is ridiculous...
Such a coverup could never have withstood the test of time.
Science has proven the miracle (or miracles) that occurred in Fatima, Portugal on October 13th, 1917.
Science has proven that the cactus cloth of Juan Diego was not a painted image, but created by some form of energy in 1531.
The NASA research into the Shroud of Turin proved that the image was created by some unknown energy (two thousand years ago by other techniques of dating).
You're just piling it higher and deeper (Ph.D.)