05-20-2006, 09:03 PM
<b>Da Vinci is no masterpiece</b> - IBN
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The book does for Christianity what "JFK" did for the Kennedy assassination -- portraying it as the ultimate cover-up, which the book then unravels
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Is that wilting feminine figure to Jesus' right not the apostle John but, in fact, Mary Magdalene? And, if so, was she Jesus' wife, the progenitor of his bloodline?
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<b>What's revealed along the way is that the truth of Christianity has been concealed -- not just the facts of Jesus' life but the nature of Christian faith, its links to pagan goddess worship, to the "sacred feminine."</b>
That reality, says The Da Vinci Code, has been hidden for a millennium by the Catholic Church but also guarded, as a sacred secret, by the Priory of Sion, a noble shadow cult whose famous members include Leonardo and Isaac Newton.
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Yes, a soupcon of research reveals that the Priory of Sion is a hoax invented in 1956, and surely it can't be proved that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were ever intimate (though Martin Luther believed so). But what we want from a film of The Da Vinci Code is the fervor of belief.
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It may be less history than hokum, but it's a searching product of the feminist era, when even many true believers have grown weary of the church as an instrument of moral reprimand and male dominion.
The film is faithful enough, but it's hard to imagine it making many converts.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The book does for Christianity what "JFK" did for the Kennedy assassination -- portraying it as the ultimate cover-up, which the book then unravels
............
Is that wilting feminine figure to Jesus' right not the apostle John but, in fact, Mary Magdalene? And, if so, was she Jesus' wife, the progenitor of his bloodline?
..........................
<b>What's revealed along the way is that the truth of Christianity has been concealed -- not just the facts of Jesus' life but the nature of Christian faith, its links to pagan goddess worship, to the "sacred feminine."</b>
That reality, says The Da Vinci Code, has been hidden for a millennium by the Catholic Church but also guarded, as a sacred secret, by the Priory of Sion, a noble shadow cult whose famous members include Leonardo and Isaac Newton.
...............
Yes, a soupcon of research reveals that the Priory of Sion is a hoax invented in 1956, and surely it can't be proved that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were ever intimate (though Martin Luther believed so). But what we want from a film of The Da Vinci Code is the fervor of belief.
.................
It may be less history than hokum, but it's a searching product of the feminist era, when even many true believers have grown weary of the church as an instrument of moral reprimand and male dominion.
The film is faithful enough, but it's hard to imagine it making many converts.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->