[My2Cents]

"The DiVinci Code" makes people comfortable in their unbelief. 20 million books sold, worldwide. There are a lot of people who will believe anything to avoid having to be held accountable to the living God.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Bump for later reading

[Servant of the 9]

"The Da Vinci Code" is pretty lame as Grail/Templar conspiracy novels go.

I think it first sold because people thought it was a Dale Brown thriller.
These newbies had no idea that this was just one more tired example of an old literary form and their word of mouth got a world of people who normally don't read to make it a best seller.

So9

[mike182d]

Why the 'Lost Gospels' Lost Out: Catholic Church said so. :-)

[Military family member]

Is "The Wisdow of Solomon" the same as the Book of Wisdom, which is included in the Roman Catholic canon?

[Junior]

That's just what they want you to believe.

[escapefromboston]

Wow, Dan Brown's prose style is awful.

[WriteOn]

"But was there really no such thing as "orthodoxy" before the fourth century? Is it really the case that Gnosticism was harshly suppressed without being given a fair trial?"



lol. Gnosticism wouldn't have been harshly suppressed if there weren't orthodoxy. I love when arguments contain the seeds of their own deconstruction.