Iam trying to read this big book and understand what the controversy about it is. Why does it matter that detective dan brown thinks the virgin mary is a prostitute?
2006-07-24 04:25:33 · 14 answers · asked by judgemartiniz 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
The whole thing is just stupid... better things to waste time on.
2006-07-24 04:27:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The controversy isn't that Dan Brown thinks the Virgin Mary is a prostitute. He never mentions that at all, so I don't know why you are thinking that.
The controversy is that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were married and had kids. Later, to bolster the idea of Jesus being the Son of God and holy and all of that, a group of guys decided to cover up anything mortal about him (ie wife and kids). Over time, a secret society protecting the secret of Jesus' family was developed. The secret society is willing to say and do ANYTHING to keep the secret. The reason to keep the news secret is to bolster and maintain the power and money of the Pope and other higher ups in the Catholic Church.
2006-07-24 11:34:59 · answer #2 · answered by bikerchickjill 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The controversy is that the book posits an alternative view of history, namely that Jesus was a great and wise person, but still just human. Christians that read the Bible literally, find that offensive instead of seeing awe and wonder that a regular person's belief in goodness could profoundly influence so many that entire cultures are built on his philosophy. To me, that is amazing and it doesn't much matter if he was a diety or ordinary man. Anyway, that's the real controversy, that and the theory that the Vatican has been covering it up. Read the book.
2006-07-24 11:47:40 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've heard the ideas in "The Da Vinci Code" long before Dan Brown wrote his book that copies earlier ones all too much. He may be sued. It is all nonsense, of course. Some collections of weird junk may have UFO's, Loch Ness Monsters, Bigfoot, Atlantis, Mu, Lemuria, codes in paintings by Poussin and Da Vinci and other such nonsense. I've seen several TV shows about DaVinci's "code". The concensus seems to be that it is crude fiction. In the 1950's, a Frenchman invented a secret group and made a false list of past members that includes Da Vinci. The group is said to keep secret knowledge that Jesus and Mary Magdelene were married and had children whose descendants were kings of France (Merovingian Dynasty). This fraud was himself a heir to the throne he claimed. One must be quite gullible to believe such wild tales for which there is no evidence at all. Dan Brown claims his novel is based upon truth, so he is a fraud too.
2006-07-24 11:45:13 · answer #4 · answered by miyuki & kyojin 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you want a good non-fictional explanation, check out any of the books by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln. Yes, these are the guys who are suing Dan Brown, mostly because they came up with the idea first back in the 1970's.
As is the case with most stuff like this, it's part fact, part fabrication. But they are fascinating books! My advice, if you are into this stuff, put down Dan Brown and pick up the other three books. They are far more interesting.
2006-07-24 11:30:07 · answer #5 · answered by Don M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
...there are many holy scripts but only certain were placed in the King James Version...
...of the many scripts found there are contradictory versions...
...ie: Mary wasn't a virgin, Jesus was mean, Jesus had a twin brother, Jesus was black, and stuff like that..
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...controversy surrounds the possibility that Jesus had a child (white, black, Jew, what?)... that a prostitute could have been childless in a period when less than effective birth control existed is disputed among many, many other issues...
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...my amateur research has led me to believe that the ten lost tribes were given the Americas as their eternal promised lands, if so, then all Christians except those that overlap would have to release ownership to the Jews bloodline of the 1500's who lived in the Americas...
DNA evidence would become priceless..
2006-07-24 11:47:46 · answer #6 · answered by each may believe differently 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Huh I dont think Brown is saying that at all. He is saying that Jesus liked this chick named Mary Magdalene and he married her and had sex with her and had a baby. This has nothing to do with Virgin Mary being a prostitute you asshole.
2006-07-25 00:15:48 · answer #7 · answered by A 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You obviously haven't even read the book, so why do you say such stupid things. The only people who ever claimed Mary was a prostitute are the Catholics. They have since announced they were wrong.
2006-07-24 11:29:09 · answer #8 · answered by WiserAngel 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only controversy regarding Dan Brown's book WORTH MENTIONING is that it incorporates ideas from the 'factual' conspiracy book Holy Blood, Holy Grail -- without giving credit to that book's authors.
Brown won the lawsuit, but I read them both within a two-month period and I say plagarism is all through his book. [Of course that's my personal opinion and I don't expect anyone to sue me over it.]
2006-07-24 15:09:47 · answer #9 · answered by Candidus 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
According to Christianity, Jesus Christ is God. It would not be appropriate for Him to get married and have sexual relations with a woman and produce children in this manner. It is an insult to God because it tries to put Him on the same level as any other created being.
2006-07-24 11:30:46 · answer #10 · answered by Chalkbrd 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The virgin Mary was Jesus' mother . How could she be a prostitute?
2006-07-24 11:39:20 · answer #11 · answered by langven.com 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋