Salon is a subscription site, but you can read anything there by watching a short advertisement.
I read The DaVinci Code last spring. And as a novel, I don't think it was much to go nuts about. And as a plot, I kept asking "Why would people go to all this trouble to protect and keep secret information that is only valuable if everybody knows it?"
In the end, the big secret is of no value at all. Christianity is what it has become over 2000 years of development. What modern Christians believe has as much to do with St. Augustine who lived 350 years after Jesus, and Martin Luther, John Wesley and John Knox (not to mention Henry VIII and King James).
So if we find out that Jesus liked his pet dog, Spot, and had a favorite pair of sandals, most churches are going to say "Gee that's an interesting historical note," and go on doing things exactly as they've been doing.
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Date: 2005-01-03 02:42 am (UTC)Salon is a subscription site, but you can read anything there by watching a short advertisement.
I read The DaVinci Code last spring. And as a novel, I don't think it was much to go nuts about. And as a plot, I kept asking "Why would people go to all this trouble to protect and keep secret information that is only valuable if everybody knows it?"
In the end, the big secret is of no value at all. Christianity is what it has become over 2000 years of development. What modern Christians believe has as much to do with St. Augustine who lived 350 years after Jesus, and Martin Luther, John Wesley and John Knox (not to mention Henry VIII and King James).
So if we find out that Jesus liked his pet dog, Spot, and had a favorite pair of sandals, most churches are going to say "Gee that's an interesting historical note," and go on doing things exactly as they've been doing.