Posted on 05/08/2009 7:10:35 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
“I haven’t heard the author say that the book is true. Honestly, I don’t see how the book could be non-fiction, when the characters are not real people. If you can show me a source for the author’s claim that the books are not fiction, that would change my opinion 180 degrees.”
Here’s the authors website. He believes that the reader should interpret the ideas in his book for themselves. Why can’t he just tell us it is made up? He also disagrees with those scholars who attempt to refute the theories in his book.
http://www.danbrown.com/novels/davinci_code/faqs.html
Freegards
The Enemy loves for folks to hate the Church.
Freegards
Interesting and informative comments. As a second year Confirmation (Catholic) teacher here in So Cal this movie just makes my job that much harder. Amazing how our kids today will believe “fiction” cause it is in a cool format over fact. No sweat, will work it. Just another one of a thousand cultural issues I work with my “Confirmation angels” everyday!
Sounds like you are on the ball. It must be a helluva hard job nowadays. Trying teach teens anything, but especially the important stuff can be frustrating I bet.
Freegards, God bless
Salvation,
You know I was kidding. Just having a bit of fun in my post. You are the best Catholic I know!!! And a FRiend til the end.
“It was also a big fat bomb.”
Hardly surprising. It really wasn’t put together at much more than a kid’s level, but at that level it was pretty good.
A bomb, huh? The kids had asked when the sequel would be coming out. I shall have to break the bad news to them.
Media Slants Vatican Newspaper
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2248786/posts?page=3
Basically the media misrepresented what the reviewers said.
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