Would everyone, please, stop, the so-called, "debunking" of The DaVinci Code? Can everyone - the media, the religious nuts, the conspiracy theorists - just. fucking. stop.
It's a book. It's a book of fiction loosely based on something that has not been proven to be true in the first place. Yet some Catholics are getting their undies all in a bunch because their version of the story does not involve - gasp! - Jesus Christ having sex and - gasp x 2! - fathering a child. The amusing thing to me is that they feel so threatened by this piece of fiction that it almost makes me think they are scared it might shake up their entire religious belief system. Get some balls.
And the so-called news shows really must be hitting a low ratings season, because they are milking this story for, really, more than it's worth.
So everyone, put the book and the Bible down, cancel your DaVinci Code walking tour of Europe, and please - shut. up.
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They're only doing it because most people are foolish enough to already have devoured the book wholesale as fact. One would think people would understand it's fiction, but no one, especially the people who are reading it, are treating it that way.
I can understand why religious Catholics would be annoyed and offended that a work of fiction would portray their religion and religious groups in that manner. That's wholly different from actually doing anything about it - I was pretty annoyed about The Red Tent, which also was treated as nonfiction by oodles of people, but you won't find me out protesting...
Fuck the Da Vinci Code, my mother thinks National Treasure with Nick Cage is fact. Yeah. That's right. Wrap your heads around that one.
National Treasure was a fun movie. The tip-off that it's fiction should be this: the hot babe love interest is an archivist.
I've worked as an archivist.
I've had (male) friends who are and have worked as archivists.
None of us could remotely be described as "hot."
Maybe if she were a librarian or something, but not an archivist... ;)
People are treating it as fact, especially because of Dan Brown's cleverly worded introduction sentence about descriptions of art and architecture being accurate.
Unfortunately though, no one who used to think it was fact are changing their minds now that the authors of Holy Blood, Holy Grail called their book historical speculation in an attempt to steal millions from Dan Brown. Apparently in their minds the book is still as credible as it used to be.
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