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."
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Good time to pick up "De-Coding DaVinci" by Amy Welborn.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1592761011/102-0072262-3758572?v=glance
I see Amazon has it (used) for under $6.50 now. And Amy Welborn is hugely entertaining (as well as smart as a whip.)
Canadian also should believe that Canada is the US fifty first State of the Union. Canada was allowed to independently govern as an experiment of how socialist state would look like if any of the lower fifty states dare to experiment it :)
One of these channels, I think it was A&E, has a show called "Beyond the Da Vinci Code" that totally blows this book out of the water and shows it for what it is. A thriller NOVEL. It contains very, very little in the way of history or truth.
I've read it. It's crap.
He compares it to "Lord of the rings" and other fictional works.
Though his zeal is pretty big, he also reads alot of the books that debunk the "Da Vinci Code" and is also big into both literary works supporting and critizing (and knocking down) the novel.
What I can't understand, is how anyone could think this is real?
Does anyone think Harry Potter is real?
One third of Canadians are too stupid to notice it is marketed as fiction.
Good time to pick up "De-Coding DaVinci" by Amy Welborn.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1592761011/102-0072262-3758572?v=glance
I see Amazon has it (used) for under $6.50 now. And Amy Welborn is hugely entertaining (as well as smart as a whip.)
Yea, right. And I suppose Erich von Daniken is a great investigative reporter too.
Fools.
Of course, Dan Brown and others have been making claims that the fiction is just a vehicle for the historical message, so whaddya expect.
I took a course about the High Middle Ages this past semester, and some of the students asked the prof if _The DaVinci Code_ was true. He laughed sarcastically and proceeded over the next half hour to mock practically every hypothesis the book presents, saying that it might be ok as fiction but that as history, it's absolutely preposterous, unreasonable garbage.
And this is at a very secular Tier 1 university, where many professors denigrate Christianity/Catholicism whenever given the opportunity.
I keep telling people it is a work of fiction but it doesn't seem to sink in to some people!
Tnx for the reference. I nearly picked it up at Waldenbooks a week ago, but having not read the Da Vinci Code I felt it would not be fruitful for me at this time. I have read many of the sources referenced by the author of the Da Vinci Code, though, and it is a fun subject to play with.
You got it right. Canadians are "blank". The really are.
2 Million AlQanadians from Canookistan can read ?
30% of readers????
That's like saying that 30% of UFO hobbyists believe in UFO's.
~66% of Canadians know it's fiction. And don't forget, nearly 50% of Americans believed Al Gore invented the Internet.
We've got our idiots, too.
>>>>>>I took a course about the High Middle Ages this past semester,>>>>>>
Is this about forty five year olds who smoke pot?
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