Posted on 11/24/2006 7:30:34 AM PST by presidio9
You are the one missing the point. The da Vinci code is a work of FICTION - get it? Limited only by the author's imagination.
You state - as if were a proven fact - that only someone who had read Dan Brown's work would cast Opus Dei in the role as villain. That is just your opinion - not a hard fact.
You are entitled to your opinion - as I am to mine.
Live with it!
Just keep trying to change the argument. It won't help you. The only way anyone, especially a Muslim author who is fantasizing about an assassination would get the idea that Opus Dei would involve itself in geopolitics or hierarchical or doctrinal issues is from Dan Brown's book. In the real world, that's simply not their bag. Again, there are other Catholic groups that lend themselves to this sort of intrigue, but if you know anything about the organization of Opus Dei (you clearly don't), you understand that they make an exceedingly poor choice. The author seems to share your ignorance, which makes the source of his information pretty obvious.
What happened here is that you have seen other people have the fight that you are trying to have with me (whether the author has the "right" to use real world individuals or organizations in a work of fiction), but I'm not interested in playing.
Keep singing the praises of your Opus Dei if you wish. You no longer interest me. I enjoyed the debate for awhile - even making allowances for your juvenile name calling, but you have nothing new to add.
Correction. I never interested you. You had a silly argument with yourself to which you kept trying unsuccessfully to link me. I agree that name-calling is generally to be avoided, but stupid is as stupid does I guess.
FWIW, I never "sang the praises" of Opus Dei, and its not "mine," as I am not a member. You just wanted me to, so you could deliver your unwarranted pinhead sermon about works of fiction. With the reasoning skills that you've displayed here, its little wonder that you would rush to the defenses of such an idiotic book and author.
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