Posted on 06/25/2005 3:07:26 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
Almost two million Canadians who read the mega-selling book, The Da Vinci Code, ended the novel convinced that Jesus Christ fathered a line of descendants on Earth, a new survey suggests.
The coast-to-coast survey for the National Geographic Channel conducted by Decima Research found that, among 1,005 adults surveyed June 9-12, 16 per cent had read the book in the past two years.
Among those readers, 32 per cent believed the story that "a holy bloodline exists and that this secret has been protected through the ages by a dedicated society," the television channel announced yesterday.
The survey was conducted to coincide with the 15-hour broadcast Sunday on the National Geographic Channel of Da Vinci Code Sunday. Programming includes three back-to-back documentaries about the book by author Dan Brown. The three documentaries are, in total, five hours long and will be broadcast repeatedly on the digital channel from 1 p.m. until 4 a.m. Monday.
The Da Vinci Code was published in 2003 and has since sold more than 25 million copies in 44 languages. The novel suggests that Jesus and Mary Magdalene produced descendants. According to the plot, Jesus' heirs were able to maintain their secrecy over the centuries because of an international conspiracy; clues to unravelling all these mysteries can be found in various books, architecture and artworks, including paintings by Italian Renaissance master, Leonardo Da Vinci.
Trailers for the film are already being screened in theatres alongside the latest Star Wars film, although not one scene has yet been shot. Britain's Westminster Abbey has refused to allow director Ron Howard to shoot scenes from the film there because the church believes the book to be "theologically unsound."
(Excerpt) Read more at canada.com ...
Yeah, conspiracy theories abound. But does National Geographic typically give conspiracy-fantasy guys 15 hours of programming time to tout their defamatory anti-Christian fiction? Who's got an agenda here?
And where do I call, write, or e-mail to protest this crap?
I'll be impressed when someone predicts an event BEFORE it happens.
Hm?
Canadians are __________(fill in blank).
Good grief. It's fiction. What part of fiction can't they understand? Do they put stupid dust into the water in Canada?
Unfortunately the thesis cannot be proven unless they have found Jesus' twin brother [buried in India] and done DNA on that and some of the descendents. Jesus himself would be unavailable for DNA.
Don't go too easy on us now...
Kinda blows away the notion that they are so much more smarter then us.
Things just keep getting weirder and weirder.
________________ = gullible
Ignore them, they're the same folks who don't believe in a military and love their socialized health care........For now...HeHeHe...
I have to admit, I probably haven't given the 'DiVinci Code' a thorough chance to convince me of its merits. It's not as though I haven't attempted to watch the TV special,...it's just after listening to five minutes of somebody who obviously doesn't grasp the simple basics communicated in any one of four Scriptural gospels which have easily survived for a couple of Millenia, but instead attempts to now convolute an incredibly contorted schema of procreation by Christ and Mary Magdalene, simply misses the entire significance of being born again in the spirit by regeneration.
The theory doesn't even make it to a second grade level degree of sophistication. I don't understand why anybody would write or promote such a story, when all any uninformed person has to do is read 2 pages of the Bible to glean the opposite conclusion.
When you don't believe in anything you will fall for everything. Idiots
I know a lot of American's who think the book is true also. As far as National Geographic goes they have put on a lot of junk in the last couple years. Just recently they rehashed the whole "curse of King Tut's tomb" drivel. It may interest the general public but it is all a bunch of bull. Dan Brown's book fits right in with some of their other programming choices.
There was a notion?
I read a book that mentioned a place called Canada. Can that be true?
BTW, why is it that crop circles show up when Linda Moulton Howe is in town?
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