[Apologetics] DaVinci Code Project: NO SALE

[Art Kelly]

Friends,

I enjoyed our Apologetics Group meeting last Saturday.

However, despite my very best efforts to convince the
Group to undertake a project to counteract the DaVinci
Code book and movie, I was phenomenally UNsuccessful.

There was not the slightest interest on the part of
any of the other participants in doing anything at all
to fight back against the DaVinci Code.

Accordingly, I thought you all might want to read this
article in today's USA Today:

Where's the passion over 'Da Vinci Code'? 
By Amy Welborn 
at
http://news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/20060515/cm_usatoday/wheresthepassionoverdavincicode;_ylt=Ap9RmmnMXqdbbtQ0VYXtrk4__8QF
which states in part:

The book is bothersome because it not only doesn't
tell the truth about Jesus, it also doesn't tell the
truth about what Christians say about Jesus. As a
writer of many books on Roman Catholic issues with a
widely read blog, I've been getting e-mails and
fielding questions for three years, and a surprising
number of my correspondents express, well ... faith
that the story the novel tells about Jesus is
historically accurate.

Crazy stuff. But when I get e-mails from people who
are either disturbed by what they read in The Da Vinci
Code or are enraged at me for mocking it - calling me
a "typically brainwashed Catholic," as if there could
be any other kind - I know that something's up.

And something's down, as well, namely the U.S.
educational system. That so many have swallowed this
fairy tale - albeit an interesting and provocative one
- as fact should embarrass both religious and secular
teachers alike.
 
So, will the secular news media get busy on this?
Judging from the coverage of the novel's impact, as
well as the recent coverage that greeted National
Geographic's The Gospel of Judas, I'm not optimistic.

Sure, there's a slight difference in genre, but the
fact is, The Da Vinci Code presents its theories
authoritatively, and a startling number of readers
embrace them as such. I've stood next to people
studying copies of Leonardo's Last Supper talking to
each other about the figure to Jesus' left and how,
"Everyone knows that's Mary Magdalene now." 

Does this not bother anyone who cares about an
intelligent approach to art and history?

Art 

                           
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