The Da Vinci Code blurs the reality of Christianity
“A murder inside the Louvre and clues in Da Vinci paintings lead to the discovery of a religious mystery protected by a secret society for two thousand years… which could shake the foundations of Christianity.”
Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code book has taken the world by storm and even managed to land its author in a British court to fend off accusations of plagiarism. Bookstores can’t stock it fast enough, and the movie based on the book, that comes out this week is sure to be a hit in cinemas around the world.
The book tells of a grand cover-up of secret scripture that suggests Jesus didn’t die on the cross, that he and Mary Magdalene got married, went to what is now France and raised a family, the descendants of whom still live among us.
It also outlines a grand scheme by the Catholic Church to keep all this stuff hidden by any means, including murder. It’s getting so much attention that it’s beginning to blur the line between fiction and fact.
Reverent James Martin, a Jesuit priest, mentions whenever he preaches the gospel, he’s inevitably asked questions based on the assumption that The Da Vinci Code somehow is history and not the product of Dan Brown’s imagination.
Do secret Catholic societies really kill people to keep the secret under wraps? No, he responds. Where in France did Jesus and Mary Magdalene live? How many kids did they have? Nowhere and none, Martin replies.
Yet the priest worries young people especially will take Brown’s novel as fact and will come away with a flawed view of Christianity, so much so they will wander Europe trying try to find the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jesus Christ…
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