what do you think about the facts used by the da vinci code to attack Christianity?

Answer 1

It's a freaking work of fiction. Those who can't tell need to learn to think.

It doesn't "attack Christianity".

It sells so people can be entertained when they read it.

Answer 2

Why does everyone say that the book and the references and the tales "attack" Christianity? It's not attacking anything. It always bothers me when I read or attempt to discuss a controversial idea and then someone else jumps in and screams at me for whittling their rights and beliefs and all that away. When all I am doing is expanding my mind just a little more so that I am not looking in the same direction my whole life.

Wouldn't you like to see the whole forest and not just the deer path? The beauty of the flowers, the turning of the leaves...all that stuff. Just because someone has an idea different that you does not mean they are attacking you. Are these people so fundamentally insecure that they have to jump up and down to demand attention, as bad attention is better than no attention. seriously, that's like a 3 year old tactic.

I happen to have beliefs outside of the mainstream of the world...and I kow I am not the only one. Where as not all of my ideas are the exact same as the DaVinci Code, it does not mean I write them hate mail as to why they are wrong and brow beat them until they just agree to get me to shut up. I take their ideas and place them in my head a little drawer in my brain, labelled interesting. Should I ever be in a posistion to finally see what this person or that person is attempting to say, it would be easy to pull out that little drawer in my brain and understand it.

Honestly, I understand how the DaVinci Code could end the way it did. Womanliness is just as important as manliness. To only propogate the male side of life is unbalanced the appropriate scale needs to have a counterweight and that counterweight in this instance is female. No true human decided understanding of how the world works will accept that a human was born by someone thinking about it and poof out comes a baby from some unsuspecting woman. What if the woman was not willing for that kind of miracle? What if there were social complications to that miracle? What of the woman's suffering in the pregnancy, birth and child rearing...does she mean nothing in the grand scheme of things. Someone did not agree with that line of thinking and thusly a conspiracy was conceived. All conspiracies are rooted from imbalance, if there is imbalance there will be someone somewhere attempting to fix the imbalance.

Answer 3

First of all, I don't think the Da Vinci Code "attacks" christianity. It's a fictional novel. To answer the question however, I think that Dan Brown used legitimate facts to form a hypothesis which is upsetting christians everywhere because it goes against what they believe and they're afraid of not having a god if he's ever proved non-existent.

Answer 4

I leave "the Da Vinci Code" where it belongs--in fiction. However, it's based on the nonfiction book "Holy Blood, Holy Grail", which was written by two men who got duped by a Frenchman who claimed he was the decendent of Jesus. Upon further research, it was found that this Frenchman was a convicted con artist and embezzler who created most of the "evidence" himself. Example: He registered the group "the Priory (sp?) of Zion", supposedly the keepers of this secret deception, in 1958 under an assumed name. He fabricated a family tree to link himself to the French monarchy, specifically to King Dagobert (sp?) II, because very little is known about this king, and linked him to Jesus and Mary Magdaline. These papers were found to be falsified for three reasons: 1) all social groups were required to be registered, but this one wasn't until 1958. The papers that the group was registered on were newer than they would have been if they had actually been registered at the beginning of this society. 2) At the bottom of the lists of members by generation were ALWAYS people of note--Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, Leonardo Da Vinci, and Victor Hugo, to name a few. It was far too elaborate and enormous for all of these geniouses to be part of this secret society with no one knowing about it. 3) These rumors were started when a very poor priest became suddenly very rich--conspiracy theorists believed he had discovered some papers which contained proof that there was a decendent of Jesus when he remodeled his church. Records were found that this priest actually got his money from collecting fees for services that he did not perform, and was eventually suspended for it.

Answer 5

Hollywood intends to re-write history but one only needs to research for themselves the validity of the claims. For example the quality of the New Testament documents can be validated outside of the Bible through the research of Josephus Flavius, Tacitus, Caesar's Gallic Wars, Herodotus, and Thucydides. In fact there are 5366 documents discovered so far to validate that the Bible we have today is 99.5% as accurate as it was way back then. For example:

The first-century Jewish historian Josephus referred to the stoning of “James, the brother of Jesus who was called the Christ.” (The Jewish Antiquities, Josephus, Book XX, sec. 200) A direct and very favorable reference to Jesus, found in Book XVIII, sections 63, 64, has been challenged by some who claim that it must have been either added later or embellished by Christians; but it is acknowledged that the vocabulary and the style are basically those of Josephus, and the passage is found in all available manuscripts.

Tacitus, a Roman historian who lived during the latter part of the first century C.E., wrote: “Christus [Latin for “Christ”], from whom the name [Christian] had its origin, suffered the extreme penalty during the reign of Tiberius at the hands of one of our procurators, Pontius Pilatus.”—The Complete Works of Tacitus (New York, 1942), “The Annals,” Book 15, par. 44.

With reference to early non-Christian historical references to Jesus, The New Encyclopædia Britannica states: “These independent accounts prove that in ancient times even the opponents of Christianity never doubted the historicity of Jesus, which was disputed for the first time and on inadequate grounds by several authors at the end of the 18th, during the 19th, and at the beginning of the 20th centuries.”—(1976), Macropædia, Vol. 10, p. 145.

Internal evidence is pretty clear as well. 2 Peter 3:15-16 clearly states that the canon was already in the process of being collected for what we have today in the Bible. There were gnostic books but they were not accepted because they were written by Hellenistic writers that intended to change the original message of the Greek translation to imply that Jesus was not the Son of God.

See the sources below for addition research.

Source(s):

"Exploring the Da Vinci Code"
"Breaking the Da Vinci Code"
"Is the New Testament Documents Reliable?"
"The Gospel Code"
"Hidden Gospels - How the Search for Jesus Lost the Way"

Last this is a personal favorite of mine...

"New Evidence that Demands a Verdict"

go to any book store and pick them up.

Answer 6

I don't feel the book was necessarily attacking christianity...just taking some well researched theories and making a fictional novel about them. By no means are the ideas they propose "facts" persay...but if you look into some of the ideas brought up in the book you'll see that many of the theories are in fact real theories regarding Jesus, Mary Magdalene and the history of the church. I feel people should not take it as a personal attack on religion itself..if you've read any of Dan Brown's other novels you'll see that he has great respect for religion.

Answer 7

Facts are proven beyond the shadow of a doubt...the theories in the Da Vinci code are just that, theories, and were represented as such by the author when he called his book "fiction".
Religious beliefs are not facts either...they are based on faith.
And Christians always believe that others are attacking them when they share their different beliefs...have you considered that others feel the same way when we share Christianity with them? [yes I am a Christian]
Please respect people's beliefs and their right to share them...and if a movie based on fiction is enough to shake your faith, then what was it based on in the first place?

Answer 8

I read the book (have not seen the movie) and it can be very convincing. If you are not strong in your faith these "facts" can be very misleading.

But if you think about it who was Da Vinci. Just an artist. A great one, I give him that. But just because those were his opinions don't mean it makes them true.

Answer 9

I don't think "The Da Vinci Code" attacks Christianity any more than Anton LeVey's "Satanic Bible". Given the challenge we are adult human beings with common sense (and for some, THAT's a HUGE challenge), we're called to look through the lines.

The book and movie are interesting reads and such, but I--for one--am satisfied with my current religion, one I choose to follow through my life with.

Answer 10

I dont think the da Vinci code is moral,I am a protestnt I think its too bad

Answer 11

is any fact a attack on anything? the church has hidden what was really in the scrolls and printed it as they wanted it. the scrolls and recent apostle scroll shows that alot was left out as the churches decided what should be printed and how. it was admitted by the churches that alot of graphic things were left out along with evil that was written about. the bible states its eternal hell to change the bible. but the churches did and never printed what the scrolls say. divinnci code was his way of giving secrets to the truth that the church didn't want known.