People discuss the darn thing like it's real.
It gets to be a real humanism undertaking when taken seriously as some do.
I AGREE that it is, that it's the product of those engaged in the cult of HUMANISM...
No, The Da Vinci Code = A Work Of Fiction Passed Off As Nothing More.
Fiction isn't, afterall, also a product of humanism, just not in the same tense of HUMANISM the false religiosity that is otherwise paganism. On the other hand, THE DA VINCI CODE postulates ("fiction") as to alter, counter theology using names, themes, concepts from Judao-Christianity. This is one case where fiction is a pretense, given that what's fiction to some of us is also profanity. I think the writers understand their paganism, by the way, which implies an intention to mislead.
Fiction as genre does not excuse nor provide special permission to engage in false doctrine -- a pretense to represent that which is not represented -- at least without some clear denouncement of consequences by whatever special permission is assumed. I've heard the two authors involved with THE DA VINCI CODE speak and from what they readily and eagerly admit, they're involved in "religious" perceptions, one of them pretty much describes accuarately what I would describe as "channeling" which is a satanic practice denounced by the Bible.
Thank you for that awesome rebuttle. I believe you are on to something...LOL.
A work of fiction yes, but the author's intentions are to give legitimacy to the Gnostics and the Gnostic Bible which are real works of heresey. The Gnostics believe that Christ was a rather lewd person who, lived through his crucifiction, absconded to France with Mary Magdeline and fathered two chlidren. Christ also comes across as a sort of proto-feminist when reading the works of the Gnostics and Dan Brown. The book is nothing more than the wild fantasies of a liberal Gnostic who supports paganism, eroticism, and the feminist cults. Read the book, then come back and tell us if you see it any differently. The book is Gnostic, feminist propagana period.