Posted on 05/24/2006 12:03:53 PM PDT by JZelle
A telltale moment in "The Da Vinci Code" points like a cryptogram to the real secret meaning behind the novel. The hero, Robert Langdon, a Harvard professor about to publish a nonfiction book claiming Mary Magdalene is the "real" Holy Grail, and the heroine, Sophie Neveu, who is "really" a direct descendent of Jesus and his wife, Mary Magdalene, are fleeing Paris because bulldog police captain Bezu Fache mistakenly believes Langdon murdered Louvre curator Jacques Sauniere. Sauniere, it turns out, headed a secret society that for centuries has preserved documents that prove Christ was solely a mortal man, that Christianity is a fraud, and that the true religion requires mankind to embrace environmentalism and worship the "divine feminine" through ritualistic fornication in damp, dark places.
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I hope said Harvard professor isn't accused of plagairism. That Mary as the Grail thing has already been done. Yesterday's news.
I'm waiting for Harry Potter to run into Mary Magdalene.
Great! I always knew after reading all of Brown's novels, that they would make good movies. Can't wait until the next one comes out.
It's all working out well for Mr. Brown. Wonder what he'll do with his mountain of money. Something divine, I'm sure.
Sure can. I look forward to Dan Brown's next book where he picks a fight with Islam.
Wherein, the prophet (may he burn in Hell forever between 2 Farmer John's Hams) marries a 9 year old little girl.
Oh, wait. That really happened. For Brown's attack style, it will have to be a 6 year old girl. Oh wait, a 6 year old prostitute. No -- a 6 year old transvestite, gay male prostitute.
No, that probably happened too.
Gee, reading this jacket of Deception Point, I kind of get a premonition of what his third novel (DVC) will be like. I think he's hit on his formula.
From the Jacket
When a new NASA satellite spots evidence of an astonishingly rare object buried deep in the Arctic ice, the floundering space agency proclaims a much-needed victory...a victory that has profound implications for U.S. space policy and the impending presidential election. With the Oval Office in the balance, the President dispatches White House Intelligence analyst Rachel Sexton to the Milne Ice Shelf to verify the authenticity of the find.
Accompanied by a team of experts, including the charismatic academic Michael Tolland, Rachel uncovers the unthinkable: evidence of scientific trickery -- a bold deception that threatens to plunge the world into controversy.
But before Rachel can contact the President, she and Michael are attacked by a deadly team of assassins controlled by a mysterious power broker who will stop at nothing to hide the truth. Fleeing for their lives in an environment as desolate as it is lethal, their only hope for survival is to find out who is behind this masterful ploy. The truth, they will learn, is the most shocking deception of all.
In his most thrilling novel to date, bestselling author Dan Brown transports readers from the ultrasecret National Reconnaissance Office to the towering ice shelves of the Arctic Circle, and back again to the hallways of power inside the West Wing. Heralded for masterfully intermingling science, history, and politics in his critically acclaimed thriller Angels & Demons, Brown has crafted another novel in which nothing is as it seems -- and behind every corner is a stunning surprise. Deception Point is pulse-pounding fiction at its best.
No. With a goat.
Do that story, Mr. Brown. Let that be your "moral duty".
I think goats are OK in islam. A dog OTOH -- yes, a dog would be the same level of blasphemy.
I think Islam is a sham to cover for a bunch of gay dudes who also like children.
No, wait, maybe that was some other religion...
[note to self: since when is anything sexual to be confused with a religious experience? careful now...]
That's what William Donahue of the Catholic League said.
And, He was a rabbi. Rabbis do marry.
There is also the fact that, if true, it would make the 'second coming' much simpler, don't you think?
As a person who studied metaphor and simile ad nauseum, the whole concept of 'chalice' and 'grail' and 'womb' are certainly not lost on me.
The blasphemy of the story isn't that he married or had children, but that the crucifixion was a hoax (or at least that Jesus never really died on the cross), and that he and Magdelene moved out of the region after they faked Jesus' death on the cross.
No crucifixion = no resurrection = no salvation for man through the blood of the lamb. That's what's really wrong with the story, and the one that keeps being missed in the press. Further, the novel suggests that the "real" teachings of Jesus are absent from the Gospels as part of a conspiracy of the founders of the Church, so the message you have is "wrong".
There are NO ice shelves in the Arctic Ocean. There are glaciers, but they are on land.
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