reliability of Scripture, the deity of Christ, the organization of the early church, and the activities of church leaders during Christianity ' s formative years. It basically condemns the entire faith as nothing less than a wicked fraud. As one book reviewer put it, The Da Vinci Code promotes " the gleefully heretical notion that the entirety of Judeo- Christian culture is founded on a misogynist [ womanhating ] lie." Or as the novel itself reads, " Almost everything our fathers taught us about Christ is false "( p. 235).
According to The Da Vinci Code, true Christianity was started by a Jesus Christ whom others viewed as just another prophet. He allegedly made no claims of divinity. Moreover, he was married, and his wife was none other than Mary Magdalene, who not only bore his child, but who also was handpicked by him to lead the church. This plan, however, fell through after Christ ' s death because the other apostles, especially Peter, were enraged about Mary being Christ ' s successor. So she fled in fear of her life to France, where she raised Christ ' s daughter. There, so the story goes, Christ ' s lineage intermarried with French royalty, thereby creating the Merovingian bloodline of kings.
Virtually everyone knew this " truth " during Christianity ' s earliest years, says Brown ' s book. But then, by recasting Mary " as a whore in order to erase evidence of her powerful family ties," male church leaders were able to begin " the greatest cover-up in human history." These religious villains also changed the originally pagan, goddess-worshiping church into a Jesus-worshiping,
reliability of Scripture, the deity of Christ, the organization of the early church, and the activities of church leaders during Christianity ' s formative years. It basically condemns the entire faith as nothing less than a wicked fraud. As one book reviewer put it, The Da Vinci Code promotes " the gleefully heretical notion that the entirety of Judeo- Christian culture is founded on a misogynist [ womanhating ] lie." Or as the novel itself reads, " Almost everything our fathers taught us about Christ is false "( p. 235).
According to The Da Vinci Code, true Christianity was started by a Jesus Christ whom others viewed as just another prophet. He allegedly made no claims of divinity. Moreover, he was married, and his wife was none other than Mary Magdalene, who not only bore his child, but who also was handpicked by him to lead the church. This plan, however, fell through after Christ ' s death because the other apostles, especially Peter, were enraged about Mary being Christ ' s successor. So she fled in fear of her life to France, where she raised Christ ' s daughter. There, so the story goes, Christ ' s lineage intermarried with French royalty, thereby creating the Merovingian bloodline of kings.
Virtually everyone knew this " truth " during Christianity ' s earliest years, says Brown ' s book. But then, by recasting Mary " as a whore in order to erase evidence of her powerful family ties," male church leaders were able to begin " the greatest cover-up in human history." These religious villains also changed the originally pagan, goddess-worshiping church into a Jesus-worshiping,
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