Those crazy cardinals
Have a look at this and tell me what you think.
The Roman Catholic Church in Italy has spoken out against what it says are "shameful and unfounded lies" in the best-selling novel The Da Vinci Code.
It’s a book. A novel. The product of someone’s imagination. It doesn’t contain any stories of blokes walking on water or feeding multitudes with a packed lunch. Sulphur doesn’t rain down from the skies and laws aren’t distributed to old gents on the top of mountains. There are no apocalyptic floods and serpents do not lead vulnerable young women astray.
Will the Vatican decree that copies of The Da Vinci Code be burned? Maybe we should start to burn blasphemers as well. That’s how they did things in the fourteenth century and nobody questioned the church then did they?
The Roman Catholic Church in Italy has spoken out against what it says are "shameful and unfounded lies" in the best-selling novel The Da Vinci Code.
It’s a book. A novel. The product of someone’s imagination. It doesn’t contain any stories of blokes walking on water or feeding multitudes with a packed lunch. Sulphur doesn’t rain down from the skies and laws aren’t distributed to old gents on the top of mountains. There are no apocalyptic floods and serpents do not lead vulnerable young women astray.
Will the Vatican decree that copies of The Da Vinci Code be burned? Maybe we should start to burn blasphemers as well. That’s how they did things in the fourteenth century and nobody questioned the church then did they?
posted by phylos @ 13:33
2 Comments:
As an active member of the priory of sion I find your attitude, and that of the church, to be offensive.
Don't you recognise the emergence of a new religion when you see one.... Da Vincism, don't knock it, it makes as much sense as any other faith and has been read more than the bible this year :-)
It strikes me that we may still get a statement from the estate of James M Barrie condeming "Return To Neverland" as a ficticious pack of lies written to detract from the truth of the original book.
Maybe the Church should issue an information pack similar to the one George Lucas gives to writers wanting to continue the Star Wars saga. In this pack he states the "Truths" that cannot be changed such as Yoda's history and how Chewy and Han met!
Then we can all enjoy the continuing adventures of Jesus and the dirty dozen!
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