Posted on 05/22/2006 11:29:05 PM PDT by L.A.Justice
It was given me by a friend two years ago. I laughed my butt off reading the so called "historical" footnotes. Honestly it's one of the most far fetched, poorly documented, tinfoil hat theories ever concocted. If you have read the history of the Gospels, and New Testament scholarship, including those dealing with writings that did not get chosen you know what a fraud Dan Brown's theory is.
It's akin to black helicoptors, or Reagan being part of the new world order conspiracy. And then writing a footnoted novel to prove it.
Dan Brown is trying to have it both ways......giving exhaustive footnotes that incite the ignorant to believe this fantasy. And when called on it, he then says.......heh, heh.....why it's only fiction.....
It's at best a B grade, third rate thriller. The only reason it sold so big was the NYT, Post and other book people pushed it because of it's so called "historical' proof that Christianity is wrong.
What theory?
Dan Brown wrote a work of fiction...what part of the word fiction do you not understand?
The theories that he built the story line on are not his.
There are no footnotes in Brown's book...you don't even know what you're talking about, do you?
Alas, it appears that he has instead repeated the dreadful quality of Batman & Robin and Lost In Space.
You're wrong.
There was a medieval monastic order known as the Priory of Sion, but according to all current information, it died out and all its assets were absorbed by the Jesuits (Society of Jesus) in 1617.
Have you seen the movie?
http://priory-of-sion.com/posd/posdebunking.html
Priory of Sion Debunked
"All ignorance is dangerous, and most errors must be dearly paid. And good luck must he have that carries unchastised an error in his head unto his death."
Arthur Schopenhauer.
The original Priory of Sion was founded in 1956 as a social group of friends by two people – André Bonhomme and Pierre Plantard. The outline of the story can be found here.
André Bonhomme definitely existed – I have spoken to him myself – as have many other researchers – and he has constantly confirmed that the original Priory of Sion had nothing to do with Bérenger Saunière, Rennes-le-Château, politics or secret societes – the story goes that one day, when someone commented on the bad state of the lodgings – it was decided to form a society devoted to the cause of Low-Cost Housing: and so the Priory of Sion was created! It was actually named after the hill of Mont Sion located outside the town of St-Julien-en-Genevoise. They produced an amateur journal called "Circuit" devoted to the cause of Low-Cost Housing, that simply comprised of A4 pages stapled together, and containing a crude text that was both stencilled and printed. The first issue can be found here.
Don't bother posting back, I won't look, nor answer. I can see you're not interested in anything but listening to yourself.
You're wrong, but then again, nothing that anyone can say will change your mind.
The Abbey (Priory) of Sion was a mediaeval monastic order which, according to a papal bull of the 12th century, had abbeys on Mount Sion in Jerusalem, on Mount Carmel, in Southern Italy (Calabria), and in France.
Check with The Vatican if you wish.
The Abbey (Priory) of Sion was absorbed by the Jesuits in 1617.
What land shark said. I don't care whether the Da Vinci code or the Catholic church is the fraud, or whether both are.
But I'll defer to historians who say as I've noted, people who aren't trying to make their religious beliefs history. Religious zealots make poor historians.
Browne says the theory on which his fiction is based is true. That is the utterance of a historian, not a novelist, and it is fair that he be subjected to the dialogue of the NT historians, into which he voluntarily injected himself.
What isn't fair, nor intellectually courageous, is to say one minute "it's all true" and then the next "it's fiction."
Which is what he's done.
"Even the concept of a Trinity, God in three natures, has always been repugnant to Jews examining Christ."
Exactly, but not to the Greeks, Romans, Egyptians or others.
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