This article makes some good points. I tried to read the Da Vinci Code because I thought it might at least spin an entertaining story. However, I found the book to be, how do I say this diplomatically, I found it to be boring and stupid. Notwithstanding it's anti-Catholic bias, it wasn't even an interesting story.
Nevertheless, as the article states: "Hey, ya never know". I had someone say almost these exact words to me about the Da Vinci Code. I was stunned that anyone of even mediocre intelligence could make such a statement. But that's what happens when folks get their news from a hostile media; when they learn their (revisionist) history from the History Channel; when they get their science from the Discovery Channel, etc.
The Da Vinci hoax
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Something struck me as fascinating in a TV show I recently saw about the devastating tsunami that hit Southeast Asia. There was a tribe of people that was called "primitive" on one of the islands in a region where everyone survived this catastrophe, while whole villages were wiped out on the mainland of countries where "nonprimitive" people lived.
A man who studied this tribe for 20 years visited after the devastation and interviewed one of the so called "primitive" people, who spoke of what we would consider "primitive" or weird, ancient beliefs handed down generation through generation about the land and the sea constantly fighting over boundary lines and how spirits would shake the land and the fight would begin. He related how one fisherman noticed that the tide receded quickly, which should have been an ominous sign to the mainland peoples, and quickly went and sounded the alarm. His people knew from "legends" handed down that when this happened they were to flee inland, and they did. They all survived.
I thought that if these people were modernized and gave up their beliefs, they might not be here today. All it takes is one generation to wipe out a belief system that was handed down for thousands of years. Which is what we moderns in the West have done.
We Christians, especially we Catholics, have allowed a revisionist secular culture to almost wipe out and rewrite our history. The agenda is so obvious that something along the lines of biblical fish scales cover our eyes.
It doesn't take too much effort to study up on history to see that we have been fed false history from everything, including the Crusades through the Inquisition to the Galileo affair, and now with this nonsensical book and movie, "The Da Vinci Code." We allow these fallacies to be fed to our children, generation after generation, without a murmur of protest. The attacks are obvious. The agenda is obvious. Let all who have eyes and ears, see and hear.
The Crusades, although brutal, as wars are, was a defensive action by the church. Most of the Middle East and North Africa were Christian or maybe even pagan before Muhammad appeared on the scene around 600 A.D. Jews were slaughtered and dispersed long ago. Our holiest sites were in and around Jerusalem. We fought to protect them. Were brutalities performed? Yes! On both sides, but how many people know that.
Galileo? A man named Copernicus, who was a priest, discovered the earth revolved around the sun long before Galileo did. The only difference was that Copernicus listened to his superiors in the church not to make his findings too public until they could be verified. Galileo didn't. He decided to humiliate his superiors. Bishops and cardinals were the first to line up around his telescopes in the search of truth, unlike today, when we teach an absolutely unproven "theory" of origins as fact to our unsuspecting children year after year, almost unquestioned.
Now, after almost 2,000 years we find out that Jesus the Christ married Mary Magdalene, had a child, and that the descendants of that child live in France today. We find that the Catholic Church has hidden this from us all along. I hear full-grown Catholics say, "Hey, ya never know." Incredible!
Let me just list a few of the fallacies in this "biggest cover up in history." First off, one of the central characters is "The Da Vinci Code" is an albino monk who is an Opus Dei member. Opus Dei ("Work of God") is a lay organization, an organization of regular people whose function it is to spread the "Work of God through their example of right living. There are no monks in Opus Dei. Anyone can look up Opus Dei on the Internet and see for themselves, instead of getting their facts from a book or movie like too many of us do.
There are too many discrepancies to list here. All I can say is, study your faith. Don't get your most sacred information from the History or Discovery channels or any other media outlet. Search for yourselves. These are attacks on our faith. Blatant attacks. Pure hatred.
Always remember what Jesus The Christ said in the Book of John, chapter 15, verse 18: "If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first."
"Primitive" people survived a devastating tsunami because they held on to their beliefs. Can we do any less?
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