Deceiving the masses
Preparations are continuing for the "DaVinci Code" film.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050121/film_nm/france_louvre_dc
Dan Brown and his comrades exploit people's ignorance of Church history (and history in general) in the same way that the Jehovah's Witnesses do. A few months ago I wrote this letter (link) to a former employer who hosted a discussion group about the book at his church. To this date I've received no answer.
Brown claims that Christianity as we know it, including the deity of Christ, is a plot cooked up by Emperor Constantine and others in order to centralize power. Funny that he totally disregards the fact that Christianity existed from early times in parts of Africa and Asia which were never controlled by the Roman Empire, and though the forms of Christianity there (such as Monophysite and Nestorian) differed from the Church in the Empire on the details of the divine & human natures of Christ, they were fully agreed that Christ is indeed both divine and human. One could argue that Brown's dogma betrays a racist bias, since he totally disregards ancient African and Asian Christianity as a piece of evidence. And of course, he pulls the wool over the eyes of those who don't know the very, very early evidence that, within the Empire, Christianity was indeed the exact same religion in the beginning that it still is today.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050121/film_nm/france_louvre_dc
Dan Brown and his comrades exploit people's ignorance of Church history (and history in general) in the same way that the Jehovah's Witnesses do. A few months ago I wrote this letter (link) to a former employer who hosted a discussion group about the book at his church. To this date I've received no answer.
Brown claims that Christianity as we know it, including the deity of Christ, is a plot cooked up by Emperor Constantine and others in order to centralize power. Funny that he totally disregards the fact that Christianity existed from early times in parts of Africa and Asia which were never controlled by the Roman Empire, and though the forms of Christianity there (such as Monophysite and Nestorian) differed from the Church in the Empire on the details of the divine & human natures of Christ, they were fully agreed that Christ is indeed both divine and human. One could argue that Brown's dogma betrays a racist bias, since he totally disregards ancient African and Asian Christianity as a piece of evidence. And of course, he pulls the wool over the eyes of those who don't know the very, very early evidence that, within the Empire, Christianity was indeed the exact same religion in the beginning that it still is today.
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