Oh..............defenders of the bible are saying this book is based on
nothing but outrageous lies and fantasy fiction...instead of historical
truths.
Now THAT'S irony

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Deconstructing 'Da Vinci'


By Julia Duin
THE WASHINGTON TIMES



"The Da Vinci Code," the best-selling novel that asserts as fact
that Jesus Christ had a daughter as well as a wife, has provoked
fierce opposition from Protestants and Catholics alike.
From Dallas Theological Seminary, whose faculty and students have
staged seminars debunking the novel, to "Christian History" magazine
in Carol Stream, Ill., which established a Da Vinci section on its Web
site (www.christianitytoday.com/history), Christians have denounced
the fabrications.
"What caused the stir, at least in part, was the author's claim
that the backdrop to his fictitious story is based on the truth," says
professor Darrell Bock of the Dallas seminary, who calls the book's
claims "ludicrous."
"Dan Brown's book isn't an innocent book," he said. "There is
something else going on here. At its very core is an attempt to
reshape our culture and Christian beliefs."
Mr. Bock's counterpunch book, "Breaking the Da Vinci Code," is due
out in April.
A thriller purporting to combine art, cryptology and religion,
"The Da Vinci Code" has sold 6.1 million copies to date and has topped
the New York Times best-seller list for 45 weeks. A movie by Columbia
Pictures is in the works.
America's religious elite ignored the book for months after it was
released in March. Then it became clear that many Americans,
particularly the unchurched, have taken the book as gospel according
to Dan Brown.
He writes that the Emperor Constantine originated the New
Testament during the fourth-century Council of Nicea, a large
gathering of Christian leaders that rewrote Jesus into a divine
figure, writing that the early church had venerated him merely as a
mortal prophet.
Other "facts" recited by Mr. Brown include assertions that
pre-Babylonian Judaism included temple prostitutes, that sex is a
prime way to God that has been squelched mainly by the Roman Catholic
Church for 2,000 years, that Gothic cathedrals are modeled after the
female body, and that Noah was an albino.
Not everyone is alarmed. David Klinghoffer, writing Dec. 8 for the
National Review, said the fact that Christians regard the novel as a
threat to their faith indicates that readers are taking the book far
too seriously.
"This also suggests that the problems in Catholic religious
education are every bit as severe as Catholic conservatives have been
alleging for some time now," he wrote. "If the professional educators
were doing their job, any believing Catholic past elementary-school
age would know that Brown's book is a total falsehood."
Leonardo Da Vinci is cited as the author of the "codes" because he
purportedly placed such clues in his paintings. One of them, according
to the novel, is that the person on Jesus' right in Da Vinci's
painting of "The Last Supper" is not the Apostle John but Mary
Magdalene. The Catholic Church, he writes, hid the "fact" that Jesus
and Mary were husband and wife and that she fled to France after the
Crucifixion, bearing him a daughter whose descendants are alive today.
Christian clerics were alarmed when a New York Daily News book
reviewer called the book's scholarship "impeccable" and the book
rocketed to the top of the best-seller charts.
"[The author] wins your trust with fascinating facts that are
true, then misleads you with insights that are not," says the Rev. Tim
Floyd, pastor of Providence Baptist Church in McLean whose Wednesday
night lecture series on the book typically draws 75 to 80 persons.
"The book easily deceives readers by cleverly mixing truths,
half-truths and complete falsehoods. Oliver Stone did the same thing
with the Kennedy assassination in his notorious [1991] movie 'JFK,'
which most people accepted as totally factual."
What spurred Mr. Floyd - and many other Christians - to action was
a Nov. 3 ABC special on whether Jesus had a wife. "I knew [such a
claim] was spurious, but people were talking about it, and I realized
I had to do something."
When the Rev. George Evans, pastor of Lutheran Church of the
Redeemer in McLean, scheduled a Da Vinci lecture for Jan. 14, "I
thought we'd get six to 10 people," he said. "We got 113 people, and
that was on a bad night, with rainy, freezing weather."
Mr. Evans was asked by a parishioner whether the word "companion"
in the gnostic Gospel of Philip meant "wife" in the Syriac language in
which the second-century manuscript was written.
"It could be used to mean 'companion,' 'friend' or maybe 'wife,'
but that stands against a flood of testimony of it being a different
relationship," he said. "The Gospels have her calling him 'rabbi,'
'lord' and 'teacher,' words you would not be saying to your husband
and lover."
Crisis magazine, a Catholic publication, took a swing at Mr.
Brown's book in its September issue.
Such debunkings might seem "like a pile driver applied to a gnat,"
author Sandra Miesel says, but "the blows are necessary to demonstrate
the utter falseness of Brown's material. His willful distortions of
documented history are more than matched by his outlandish claims
about controversial subjects. But to a postmodernist, one construct of
reality is as good as any other."
For the author, she says, "to state that the [Catholic] Church
burned five million women as witches shows a willful - and malicious -
ignorance of the historical record. The latest figures for deaths
during the European witch craze are between 30,000 to 50,000 victims."

Oh..............defenders of the bible are saying this book is based on
nothing but outrageous lies and fantasy fiction...instead of historical
truths.
Now THAT'S irony

"Steve Dufour" <stevejdufour@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:744cc401.0402152248.c599035@posting.google.com...

Deconstructing 'Da Vinci'


By Julia Duin
THE WASHINGTON TIMES



"The Da Vinci Code," the best-selling novel that asserts as fact
that Jesus Christ had a daughter as well as a wife, has provoked
fierce opposition from Protestants and Catholics alike.
From Dallas Theological Seminary, whose faculty and students have
staged seminars debunking the novel, to "Christian History" magazine
in Carol Stream, Ill., which established a Da Vinci section on its Web
site (www.christianitytoday.com/history), Christians have denounced
the fabrications.
"What caused the stir, at least in part, was the author's claim
that the backdrop to his fictitious story is based on the truth," says
professor Darrell Bock of the Dallas seminary, who calls the book's
claims "ludicrous."
"Dan Brown's book isn't an innocent book," he said. "There is
something else going on here. At its very core is an attempt to
reshape our culture and Christian beliefs."
Mr. Bock's counterpunch book, "Breaking the Da Vinci Code," is due
out in April.
A thriller purporting to combine art, cryptology and religion,
"The Da Vinci Code" has sold 6.1 million copies to date and has topped
the New York Times best-seller list for 45 weeks. A movie by Columbia
Pictures is in the works.
America's religious elite ignored the book for months after it was
released in March. Then it became clear that many Americans,
particularly the unchurched, have taken the book as gospel according
to Dan Brown.
He writes that the Emperor Constantine originated the New
Testament during the fourth-century Council of Nicea, a large
gathering of Christian leaders that rewrote Jesus into a divine
figure, writing that the early church had venerated him merely as a
mortal prophet.
Other "facts" recited by Mr. Brown include assertions that
pre-Babylonian Judaism included temple prostitutes, that sex is a
prime way to God that has been squelched mainly by the Roman Catholic
Church for 2,000 years, that Gothic cathedrals are modeled after the
female body, and that Noah was an albino.
Not everyone is alarmed. David Klinghoffer, writing Dec. 8 for the
National Review, said the fact that Christians regard the novel as a
threat to their faith indicates that readers are taking the book far
too seriously.
"This also suggests that the problems in Catholic religious
education are every bit as severe as Catholic conservatives have been
alleging for some time now," he wrote. "If the professional educators
were doing their job, any believing Catholic past elementary-school
age would know that Brown's book is a total falsehood."
Leonardo Da Vinci is cited as the author of the "codes" because he
purportedly placed such clues in his paintings. One of them, according
to the novel, is that the person on Jesus' right in Da Vinci's
painting of "The Last Supper" is not the Apostle John but Mary
Magdalene. The Catholic Church, he writes, hid the "fact" that Jesus
and Mary were husband and wife and that she fled to France after the
Crucifixion, bearing him a daughter whose descendants are alive today.
Christian clerics were alarmed when a New York Daily News book
reviewer called the book's scholarship "impeccable" and the book
rocketed to the top of the best-seller charts.
"[The author] wins your trust with fascinating facts that are
true, then misleads you with insights that are not," says the Rev. Tim
Floyd, pastor of Providence Baptist Church in McLean whose Wednesday
night lecture series on the book typically draws 75 to 80 persons.
"The book easily deceives readers by cleverly mixing truths,
half-truths and complete falsehoods. Oliver Stone did the same thing
with the Kennedy assassination in his notorious [1991] movie 'JFK,'
which most people accepted as totally factual."
What spurred Mr. Floyd - and many other Christians - to action was
a Nov. 3 ABC special on whether Jesus had a wife. "I knew [such a
claim] was spurious, but people were talking about it, and I realized
I had to do something."
When the Rev. George Evans, pastor of Lutheran Church of the
Redeemer in McLean, scheduled a Da Vinci lecture for Jan. 14, "I
thought we'd get six to 10 people," he said. "We got 113 people, and
that was on a bad night, with rainy, freezing weather."
Mr. Evans was asked by a parishioner whether the word "companion"
in the gnostic Gospel of Philip meant "wife" in the Syriac language in
which the second-century manuscript was written.
"It could be used to mean 'companion,' 'friend' or maybe 'wife,'
but that stands against a flood of testimony of it being a different
relationship," he said. "The Gospels have her calling him 'rabbi,'
'lord' and 'teacher,' words you would not be saying to your husband
and lover."
Crisis magazine, a Catholic publication, took a swing at Mr.
Brown's book in its September issue.
Such debunkings might seem "like a pile driver applied to a gnat,"
author Sandra Miesel says, but "the blows are necessary to demonstrate
the utter falseness of Brown's material. His willful distortions of
documented history are more than matched by his outlandish claims
about controversial subjects. But to a postmodernist, one construct of
reality is as good as any other."
For the author, she says, "to state that the [Catholic] Church
burned five million women as witches shows a willful - and malicious -
ignorance of the historical record. The latest figures for deaths
during the European witch craze are between 30,000 to 50,000 victims."

Oh..............defenders of the bible are saying this book is based on
nothing but outrageous lies and fantasy fiction...instead of historical
truths.
Now THAT'S irony

"Steve Dufour" <stevejdufour@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:744cc401.0402152248.c599035@posting.google.com...

Deconstructing 'Da Vinci'


Bycalls the book's

Dan's book merely speaks to what the Roman church wants to hide. The Romans
were still looking for Jesus' descendants around 120ce. According to
Eusebius Roman authorities arrested Jesus' cousin.
Much implication is extant which points to a child by Jesus. Besides he
shacked up with Mary whenever he came into town. He partied hard, drank hard
and had these magical rituals regarding sex.....

He writes that the Emperor Constantine originated the New

Testament during the fourth-century Council of Nicea, a large
gathering of Christian leaders that rewrote Jesus into a divine

This is true. They decided what went into the NEw Testament., They had a
mini war killing many Christians and making heretics out of those who did
not believe the winners point of view..

pre-Babylonian Judaism included temple prostitutes,

They were called Kadesh...or holy women. ...

 
Adam eats from the tree of knowledge - Adam becomes self aware

Man is self aware - man becomes self worshipping - man is selfish -
original sin

Man discovers that self worship needs limits - man invents religion

The design of religion was to redirect man's desire to worship himself
to the worship of a god. The religions that use an image of a man as
their god become the most self serving of all men and thus the most
self centered self worshipping of all men. Woe be to the aboriginal
men of the earth, those that have a man as their god are the most evil
murderous of all men and they are to kill you in gods name.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

The Jeudo Christian history through Europe and Africa and then North
and South America is written in the blood of millions that were
tortured by the anthropocentric theists in the most heinous manner.

The idea that this movie  "The Passion of the Christ" will implant in
the minds of the fattest of the self worshippers this planet has ever
known, that they are some how the victims rather than the victimizers
is the most disgusting distortion yet invented by the misguided mind
of the self worships.

One could take any page from the long history of torture that
religion, Christian religion, has perpetrated on men (especially men
of color) and we all could see why the sicko perverts that go in mass
to see Jesus' torture as separate from the rest. If he was alive and
here today he would flip Mel Gibson's money table and shame all those
demented pin heads that contributed money to be part of an orgy of
violence like the good old days of slave trading and genocide of
indigenous peoples.

So much for being "Christ like"

Tell me how fat slobs walk like a camel through the eye of a needle?

Not gunna happen!

stevejdufour@yahoo.com (Steve Dufour) wrote in message

Deconstructing 'Da Vinci'


By Julia Duin
THE WASHINGTON TIMES



"The Da Vinci Code," the best-selling novel that asserts as fact
that Jesus Christ had a daughter as well as a wife, has provoked
fierce opposition from Protestants and Catholics alike.
From Dallas Theological Seminary, whose faculty and students have
staged seminars debunking the novel, to "Christian History" magazine
in Carol Stream, Ill., which established a Da Vinci section on its Web
site (www.christianitytoday.com/history), Christians have denounced
the fabrications.

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