CatholicFatherOf2

The Da Vinci Code

I am guessing this is old news to a lot of people. But I never really understood the big deal about the book The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown. It was just a work of fiction, just like any other. Just out of curiosity I order the book The Da Vince Hoax: Exposing the Errors in the Da Vinci Code by Carl E. Olson and Sandra Miesel. The book came with a free booklet called Cracking The Da Vinci Code by Jimmy Akin. When I finished reading both I began to understand. Why would Catholics or Christians in general care that much about a work of fiction? A couple of reasons immediately come to mind. First, if the book is true, then all of Christianity is a farce. Secondly, during interviews and on websites the writer of the book seems to deliberately try and lead people to believe that this work of fiction is more fact than fiction. Lastly, the fictional events that take place only in the boo are being talked about and being treated as if they really occurred and it is giving people a false picture of Catholicism and all of Christianity.

The booklet Cracking The Da Vince Code is about 36 pages. It is broken up into three sections.

1. The Da Vinci Code: Fact or Fiction?

2. What the Da Vinci Code Claims.

3. Responding to Fans of The Da Vinci Code.

It gave me enough information to understand what all the fuss was about and to peak my curiosity. Was what the Jimmy Akin was saying really true? When I finished The Da Vinci Hoax I had my answer. The Da Vinci Hoax is over 300 pages of well referenced material. It goes into so much depth and covers so many issues with Dan Brown’s book. If you want to know all the details about all the issue then reading The Da Vinci Hoax is a good way to go. If you just have a casual interest, then try Cracking the Da Vinci Code.

There is another good way to find out more information about the book. You can listen to The Da Vinci Cast hosted by Hosted by Fr. Bill Holtzinger. It is another fine podcast that you can find at SQPN. It is broken down into 4 parts that are each about 30 minutes long.

posted by CatholicFatherOf2 @ 7:15 PM