cracking the da vinci code, the truth about Jesus.

On CBC radio one this morning, they reported on all the DaVinci Code products that are selling like hot cakes. The book alone has sold one and a half million copies in Canada alone. In Canada Alone, folks. Canada has the population of California, Dog only knows how many copies have sold in the United States (or at least someone who cares more than i do about doing a search).

One thing is certain sure, these folks are putting money in Dan Brown's bank acount at a furious pace.

Heard the movie is a big disappointment.

Bummer

I'll bet Ron Howard gets paid, though.

I just got back from the movie. I have not read the book so I can not compare them but. I did not think the movie a waste of my 10 dollars. Definitely not oscar material and its intellectual content is slim, despite it attempt to seem otherwise. The basic premies is a combination of French rationalism (there is no supernatural) and Renaissance Protestantism (Rome is evil and must be destroyed). It also sanctifies the two major hegemonic powers of the last 300 years (Britain and France) because that is where all of the supposedly dynamite historical material has been preserved all these millennia and is to be found. German and Italian look-a-like are the evil heavies.

Yup.

And the book is a murder mystery, but, because it presents in an authoritative way certain views about the history and principles of a belief system, it has shook things up. Catholic priests have always grimaced when asked "If Christ was wholly man, where is his manliness? Can you be both wholly man and holy?" My answer to them when they asked 'What did I think?' (seldom asked) was that you cannot be holy until you are wholly man.

Joe(Only possessed a couple of bursts of holiness, now and again)Nation

The thing I like about it is that if it is as I understand it putting forth the notion that French nobility are direct descendants of Jesus then man that must drive the freedom fires retards up the f*cking wall!

If this joker is sayin' the French nobility are descended from Jeebus, then they're even further out in left field than i had previously thought. (I've not read the book, nor seen the movie--Dan Brown and Ron Howard gots plenty of cash without gettin' mine.) We know from whence derived the French nobility, an' it ain't Palestine.

That's not quite what Brown says.

It's not even what Leigh, Bateing and Lincoln said in their book, which Brown got his idea from.

The Merovingians are supposedly descended from Jesus. Or so they say.

Nowadays, Lincoln is trying to prove that some churches in the region where he first came up with the theory of "Merovingians are descendents of Christ" are of a set distance from each other, form a pentagram if you join the dots and that it means something.

Just goes to show that you can prove anything you want if you're clever enough to work out new conundrums from old sources. I'll bet, given enough time and inspiration, I could show that the specific location of Republican Party HQ in each state clearly shows that it's a Satanic cult.

But, seriously, what we're doing here on this thread, apparently, is playing right into the hands of the publicists for the film. There's a fascinating story in this week's New Yorker about how most of the anti-DVC propaganda was actually started by Sony Pictures Entertainment which has something over two hundred million bucks tied up in the film. The magazine claims that seriously dissing the flick is a major part of Sony's own marketing effort, particularly when it comes to the Internet. Reverse marketing psychology, I guess.

Well, Clovis the Merovingian King, was the head of Arian movement that held that Jesus was not devine. When he died the Arian movement was killed by the church.