Jesus says 'Da Vinci Code" is BS

Miakal · 03-16-2005, 01:13 AM

Top Cardinal Blasts 'Da Vinci Code' as 'Cheap Lies'

Tue Mar 15, 1:02 PM ET

By Philip Pullella

ROME (Reuters) - A top Catholic cardinal has blasted "The Da Vinci Code" as a "gross and absurd" distortion of history and said Catholic bookstores should take the bestseller off their shelves because it is full of "cheap lies."

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Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, in an interview with the Milan newspaper Il Giornale, became the highest ranking Italian Churchman to speak out against the book, an international blockbuster that has sold millions of copies.

"(It) aims to discredit the Church and its history through gross and absurd manipulations," Bertone, the archbishop of the northern Italian city of Genoa and a close friend of Pope John Paul (news - web sites) told the paper in its Monday edition.

"This seems like a throwback to the old anti-clerical pamphlets of the 1800s," he said.

The central claim of the book, written by American Dan Brown, is that Jesus married Mary Magdalene and had children. The Bible says Jesus never married, was crucified and rose from the dead.

Bertone's comments were significant because until the Pope named him archbishop of Genoa in 2003 he was for years the number two man at the Vatican (news - web sites)'s most powerful department - the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

"You can find that book everywhere and the risk is that many people who read it believe that those fairy tales are real," he said. "I think I have the responsibility to clear things up to unmask the cheap lies contained in books like that."

HOLY GRAIL

A central storyline of the book is that the Holy Grail is not the cup which Christ is said to have used at the Last Supper but really the bloodline descended from Jesus and Mary Magdalene. Bertone calls this idea "a perversion."

Bertone is so incensed about the novel that he will be the key speaker at a roundtable in Genoa Wednesday night attempting to dismantle the book, which also accuses the Church of covering up the female role in Christianity.

"I will try to clear things up and help form consciences," the cardinal said.

"I think that when faced with affirmations that are so shameful and unfounded, readers who have even a minimum of basic (Christian) formation should react," he said.

He said it was "sad" that even Catholic bookstores were selling The Da Vinci Code "for purely economic reasons."

One bookstore selling "The Da Vinci Code" is the one in the Gemelli Hospital, a Catholic institution where the Pope spent a total of 28 days in two stints in February and March.

In the interview, Bertone firmly rejected the book's claim that the feminine role in Christianity had been suppressed.

"This is one of the most vulgar of inventions. The feminine element is present in all the Gospels," Bertone said.

Bertone also strongly defended Opus Dei, the conservative Church organization that the book depicts as a ruthless, Machiavellian group that resorts even to murder in its attempt to keep the Church's secrets hidden.

The novel is going to reach an even wider audience next year with the release of a film based on the book staring Tom Hanks (news).

Blitzkrieg · 03-16-2005, 01:21 AM

How would anybody know for sure something that happend over 2000 years ago was BS...? I don't get it with these people. If you don't know, then don't comment.

Miakal · 03-16-2005, 01:26 AM

Well, the Catholic Church has a point. If you are a Catholic organization or even a Christian store one should probably not be selling these books as they go against what they believe.

However, it is kind of retarded to pretend that your beliefs are better than someone elses and that you can or cannot sell a book.

Overall I don't care one way or the other though.

Blitzkrieg · 03-16-2005, 01:42 AM

Nah, I don't really care either...these people just make me laugh when they say.."This happend..and this is how it happend" I mean, it's nice to have your beliefs, but don't sit there and say that other people's beliefs are innaccurate..just because you believe something different, and in reality you yourself don't know anymore of what occured than they do.

Quack Handle · 03-16-2005, 03:04 AM

Miakal cares. What has happened is this. People reading the Da Vinci Code are considered cool and with it, but now that has gone so over the top it is far more cooler to be against it, thus we have Disco and Miakal.

Miakal · 03-16-2005, 03:09 AM

Until it becomes uncool again when which Disco and I will enjoy it and praise it on the JVN forum.

Quack Handle · 03-16-2005, 03:24 AM

"Please note, I have never read The Da Vinci Code" - Miakal

I rest my case.

Miakal · 03-16-2005, 03:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by David Yeah?

"Please note, I have never read The Da Vinci Code" - Miakal

I rest my case.

What case? I never said I did.

Disco Raheem · 03-16-2005, 03:37 AM

The whole sacred feminine thing was not uncovered by Dan Brown. Anyone studying lit would have encountered it at some point, Dan Brown just dumbed it down into a Tom Clancy novel.

Take away the "shocking relevations" about the Catholic church, and you're left with a piss poor Cluedo book that would have never seen the light of a printing press, and rightfully so.

Narc · 03-16-2005, 06:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by David Yeah?

Miakal cares. What has happened is this. People reading the Da Vinci Code are considered cool and with it, but now that has gone so over the top it is far more cooler to be against it, thus we have Disco and Miakal.

Whats wrong with that? lol :monkeyboy Look at this guy dance, he is actually way better than me.....I look like this monkey when I dance:NM:

ps: :spam: is goooooooooooooooooooooood!!!

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