Re: The Da Vinci Code
- From: "lariadna" <lariadc@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 26 Apr 2006 08:58:30 -0700
Don Phillipson wrote:
"ChrisC" <no@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Whats this book about and why is it so famous?
(Not for the first time) this presents Christian (Catholic) church
history as a conspiratorial simultaneous double. The
official external history is designed to satisfy the masses
while maintaining the secrecy of the interior history, available
only to a few initiates. The story line appeals to readers who
like to think there are such conspiracies and they are
clever enough to understand how they work.
I haven't read this book, so can't really judge it,
though some of what I've heard isn't too good,
but these mumbled complaints about the church
are having the effect of making me want to become
more involved with Catholicism.
C.
This theme is not new, i.e. has been explored by various
authors in the last 200 years. The spectrum of conspiratorial
history includes Masons, Jews and other minority or semi-secret
associations, extending as far as supposed interplanetary
travelers from other worlds.
--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)
.
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