Posted on 05/07/2006 8:05:47 AM PDT by dhuffman@awod.com
only a true portophile would post that kind of pic!
Really??? Show me where Brown has claimed the plot of his novel ACTUALLY happened. I'll wait.
now it all begins to make SENSE!!!!!
Of course, he doesn't claim that the plot (i.e., about Langdon, etc.) actually happened. However, he does claim that the underlying "history" is genuine (i.e., that there's been a massive cover-up of Jesus' and Mary Magdalene's relationship; traditional Christianity has basically been a hoax; and secret societies like The Priory of Sion have been guarding the truth and planting clues for centuries).
dittos
Not a lie. He's just using the Oliver Stone/Bill Clinton method of turning a phrase. All descriptions of artwork, architecture, documents and secret rituals in the novel may very well be accurate, but that says nothing about the accuracy of the story.
There's a difference.
Yeah. Sex is a gateway activity to smoking.
Or dancing.
Dear Looney, It's simply amazing how the slightest mention of Brown's illiterate work brings the vicious anti-Catholics like yourself skittering from the woodwork like a light being turned off in a filthy kitchen. Well, blither away, because the Church has survived 2000 years of persecution, heresy, schism and (oh, yes) internal corruption. I'm cosmically confident Catholicism will be able to recover with little effort fom the asinine theories of a hack writer, as well as from the ravings of pathetic bigots and apostates whom give him credence. By the way, I bet you sincerely believe the last white world heavyweight champion was Rocky Balboa.
> it is very unlikely he said "Et tu, Brute?" with his dying breath.
Actually, in the fashion of the times, he said in Greek, kai su teknon / Even you, son. It was rumored that JC and Brutus' mother had an affair. This is in Suetonius.
I'm astronomically amused that you think a "recovery" is even needed! LOL.
The Christian Church will survive until the end of time...notwithstanding the skeptics, the unbelievers, the agnostics, the Muslims, etc.
See, *I* don't believe in fictional books. Therefore, I see no need to "recover" from the "attack" of such writings. And it is hilarious that the Church finds itself needing to defend itself against a work of fiction. How insecure is that?
BTW... You are aware that there are TWO current white heavyweight champs, right?
"Christians must not just sit back and say it is enough for us to forgive and to forget," Arinze said in the documentary made by Rome film maker Mario Biasetti for Rome Reports, a Catholic film agency specializing in religious affairs."
They're absolutely right and so refreshing to hear. I fail to see the "hypocrisy."
Unfortunately, tens of thousands of people didn't survive persecution BY the church
Tens of thousands? How 'bout tens of millions?
Let's see... FReepers made fun and ridiculed muslims over their claims of "blasphemy" by cartoon artists.
Here we have a fictional book, and the Church is basically doing the same thing. If this book came out 500 years ago, Brown would have been burned at the stake.
With that said, such laws are a very bad idea, and unless the Cardinal is making the point that hate crime laws can bit liberals too, he ought not to push it.
Yep
Which is why Leonardo and other artists/writers of his time used codes - in Leonardo's day, there were boxes into which people could anonymously drop someones name, accusing them of a crime that would bring them before the Inquisition. If you didn't want to become a human marshmallow, you were very careful
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