This book is based on The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown.
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Liked It “Great response to the questions raised to the Da Vinci Code. Interestingly, Dan Brown's novel has done more to drive uninformed Christians to learn their own history and to the discovering of the importance of history and tradition as a support for the Christian faith.” see full review » see other reviews » |
Didn’t Like It “Although, as some of you may know, I am not a fan of Dan Brown, I am interested in the topics he writes about. For this reason, I would like to read an objective book discussing the topics in his book - this book ain't it. |
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“Great response to the questions raised to the Da Vinci Code. Interestingly, Dan Brown's novel has done more to drive uninformed Christians to learn their own history and to the discovering of the importance of history and tradition as a support for the Christian faith.”
Randall wrote this review Thursday, April 26, 2012. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No“Although, as some of you may know, I am not a fan of Dan Brown, I am interested in the topics he writes about. For this reason, I would like to read an objective book discussing the topics in his book - this book ain't it.
Brad B wrote this review Sunday, January 17, 2010. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
First, I'm not out to anger anyone or start a fight, I call'em like I see 'em - if you've got a problem with it, let's have a civilized debate not a screamfest. I should first say that I have no problem with religion, I'm actually writing this shortly after returning from church. The problems I have is that the Christian religion is not perfect and neither is any other religion. I can't stand it when people will defend a position to the ends of the earth without researching both sides of a problem and show some objectivity. Christianity has been around for 2000 years - throughout that time, there have been some unfavorable people associated with it.
This is where Garlow angers me so much. The Da Vinci Code is a work of FICTION. Calm down. Even though he states that there have been problems, once he actually gets to a topic that does not really suppport the Christian religion or states something unfavorable, his quickest rebuttal will be that it wasn't in the Bible and that the person was not truly a Christian so therefore the church should not be held acountable. Well, when that person was a pope or a cardinal, I would tend to disagree.
Mostly what this book was about was how Dan Brown is way too adamant about free sex - that it is a theme throughout the entire book. I read the book, besides the Jesus-Mary Magdelene thing, I really don't remember it being a very sexual book, and yet the authors go on and on and on about it. Other topics include denying the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people in the European witchcraft hunts/Inquisition, the Council of Nicea, Pope Gregory, or anything else that is actual history. When he does actually mention these things, he simply states that, well, it wasn't in the Bible. Of course, he is talking about the New Revised Bible - no where does he mention anything about the original Hebrew Bible and that some might possibly have been lost in translation. He mentions the gnostic gospels long enough to state they are not true and that it was under divine power - not that of man, that set the canon to what it is now.
The authors also spend plenty of time gay-bashing and bashing other religions. They leave no stone unturned, especially for Hindus and Wiccans (or for that matter, anything remotely pagan.) The funniest thing was bashing anyone who pretty much had a mind of their own. Like I said, I am technically a Christian, but I see value - and even admire many aspects of other religions and certainly don't hold my religion as better than anyone else's. This is not true of the authors, to whittle down what they ranted on and on about into just a couple of words: if you're not Christian you're going to hell. They even go into a long diatribe about androgeny and how evil it is. I think if David Bowie walked into the room, they would immediately have a heart attack.
The absolute worst/so unintentionally funny that I could not turn away was a little vigneete that they would use at the beginning of each chapter. They recount a fictional story of a girl named Carrie who goes off to college and has to find her way. This entire story just sounds like the worst Christian after school special I've ever heard of. Carrie doesn't know what to believe. She likes her surroundings and becomes friends with her roommate. Her roommate invites her to join a group that is discussing The DaVinci Code and how it will change her life. Carrie falls in love with the group, then shortly after going, finds out that her roommate is "Oh MY GOD!" a lesbian. Things go downhill from there whenher roommate decides to have some sort of pagan/wiccan-like ceremony in their room - all because of what they learn while reading the Da Vinci Code. Carrie's only salvation is a 6'4'' stud that is the most annoying bible-thumper I have ever come across - who she falls in love with (but not in that kind of way - that would be sinful!) These little episodes were so ludicrous, and the main character of Carrie, so stupis and naive that I actually looked forward to them to see just how idiotic they would become. It is so funny how by reading this work of fiction has led this girl into the 9th circle of hell.
Basically, this book was written by some fundamentalist Christians who were so scared of people taking the Da Vinci Code as gospel that they wrote everything they could possibly think of to deter people from reading it -in my opinion, it had the opposite effect. There is just so much wrong with this book that it really ends up making religion look bad instead of that devil-book by Dan Brown. Not recommended unless you want a good laugh.”
“I don't know why I own this.”
Eric L wrote this review Tuesday, June 9, 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
“its all abt d code of da vinchi”
nehal2182 wrote this review Saturday, September 29, 2007. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No
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