and they're doing it a BIG favor - such a plethora of free publicity.
On the one hand, they're screaming that it's anti-religious and then quote a poll that says: "poll found that 53 percent of the book’s readers said The Da Vinci Code aided their “personal spiritual growth and understanding.”
So which way is it?
I suspect it's the old 'ox gored' thing. Added to the very real, documented facts of the cover-ups, purges, book burnings, re-writings, additions, subtractions, and 100's of thousands slaughtered in the name of 'religion' - and the more recent discoveries unearthed added to the accessibility of research and information to any and all = and there are a lot of long kept secrets and deceptions coming to light. (Some crawling out from under rocks.)
It is making some folk very nervous and they are attacking. What they don't, however, seem to yet fathom is that the old tactics that worked so well for millennia, no longer do.
It's the old putting new wine in old goat skins thingy = the skins are spitting open - the wine is spilling out all over the place.
There's another analogy to all the screaming: "Methinks they doth protest to much." - which means people will, should, look at the finger pointer to see what they don't want looked at...
Fine with me -- it means there will be a showdown between the real biblical scholars and the uncredentialed phonies the media give automatic credibility.
On the one hand, they're screaming that it's anti-religious and then quote a poll that says: "poll found that 53 percent of the book’s readers said The Da Vinci Code aided their “personal spiritual growth and understanding.”
And your point is what -- that the people who love vague spiritualism that makes no real demands of them and generally tells them what they want to hear have more credibility than people who take religion seriously?
I suspect it's the old 'ox gored' thing. Added to the very real, documented facts of the cover-ups, purges, book burnings, re-writings, additions, subtractions, and 100's of thousands slaughtered in the name of.... /i>
...'communism'? (except make it millions slaughtered)
...and the more recent discoveries unearthed added to the accessibility of research and information to any and all = and there are a lot of long kept secrets and deceptions coming to light. (Some crawling out from under rocks.)
Got bad news for you. NONE of these things -- not the "Gospel of Judas", of Thomas, or any of these other "gospels" written by Gnostics two, three and four centuries after Jesus died and which are not biographies but collections of "sayings" in which to the extent Jesus talks, he sounds more like a Scientologist than a Jew -- are anything new. Time magazine et al just recycle them every year counting on the general public to be so ignorant about them that they seem new every time.
It is making some folk very nervous and they are attacking. What they don't, however, seem to yet fathom is that the old tactics that worked so well for millennia, no longer do.
BTW, does this mean you're nervous and attacking the attackers because your ox was gored?
There's another analogy to all the screaming: "Methinks they doth protest to much." - which means people will, should, look at the finger pointer to see what they don't want looked at...
So stop screaming already so we can't see what you don't want looked at.