The Day After “The Da Vinci Code”
I emerged rattled but reborn from an early opening day showing of The Da Vinci Code. Hallelujah! I’d been been converted by the Gospel according to Dan Brown and Ron Howard.
Thankfully, my confusion, nay, brainwashing was short lived, albeit titillating. A shout out to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and Amy Wellborn for translating The Da Vinci Code and saving me and legions of others from the damnation of eternal ignorance.
Wellborn sorted, packaged and labeled a heirarchy of “Da Vinci Code faithful” in a nine-and-a-half page Truth According to Wellborn lecture on a website developed and paid for by, according to the website, the USCCB.
No “distorted impressions” there. Just “clear and accurate information.” Historical facts and plain, unvarnished truth.
May 26th, 2006 at 10:25 am
WE all need to remember the “code” is ficiton with an occasional twist of fact thronw in just to make a great story! That is part of what makes the fiction so riveting. Do we all what to know “what if”…..as we fantasize?
May 26th, 2006 at 1:20 pm
Amen.
June 1st, 2006 at 2:11 am
In the midst of all this Da Vinci Code to and fro’, it seems to me too many people are forgetting what religion is about. It is well known that in the name of religion, there has been too many wars, too much blood shed, but at the same time, historically the strongest, wisest, and most progressive civilizations that astound us even today had a Deity. It is because of our deity, or deities, whatever the case may be, that we are the progressive society we are. And if people keep messing with that until we have no deities, that will be the end of our social order. Our believe in a deity is what spurs our quest to be the best that we can be. That makes each of us yen to make the world a better place. And this seems to be so, whether our deity be a sun god, a moon god, nature, or a Christian God. It is no benefit to anyone for authors, movie producers, or anyone else to mess with our deities.
June 1st, 2006 at 8:35 am
I do believe that our deities can handle it though.