reliability of Scripture , the deity of Christ , the organization of the early church , and the activities of church leaders during Christianity ' s formative years . It basically condemns the entire faith as nothing less than a wicked fraud . As one book reviewer put it , The Da Vinci Code promotes " the gleefully heretical notion that the entirety of Judeo- Christian culture is founded on a misogynist [ womanhating ] lie ." Or as the novel itself reads , " Almost everything our fathers taught us about Christ is false " ( p . 235 ).
According to The Da Vinci Code , true Christianity was started by a Jesus Christ whom others viewed as just another prophet . He allegedly made no claims of divinity . Moreover , he was married , and his wife was none other than Mary Magdalene , who not only bore his child , but who also was handpicked by him to lead the church . This plan , however , fell through after Christ ' s death because the other apostles , especially Peter , were enraged about Mary being Christ ' s successor . So she fled in fear of her life to France , where she raised Christ ' s daughter . There , so the story goes , Christ ' s lineage intermarried with French royalty , thereby creating the Merovingian bloodline of kings .
Virtually everyone knew this " truth " during Christianity ' s earliest years , says Brown ' s book . But then , by recasting Mary " as a whore in order to erase evidence of her powerful family ties ," male church leaders were able to begin " the greatest cover-up in human history ." These religious villains also changed the originally pagan , goddess-worshiping church into a Jesus-worshiping ,
reliability of Scripture , the deity of Christ , the organization of the early church , and the activities of church leaders during Christianity ' s formative years . It basically condemns the entire faith as nothing less than a wicked fraud . As one book reviewer put it , The Da Vinci Code promotes " the gleefully heretical notion that the entirety of Judeo- Christian culture is founded on a misogynist [ womanhating ] lie ." Or as the novel itself reads , " Almost everything our fathers taught us about Christ is false " ( p . 235 ).
According to The Da Vinci Code , true Christianity was started by a Jesus Christ whom others viewed as just another prophet . He allegedly made no claims of divinity . Moreover , he was married , and his wife was none other than Mary Magdalene , who not only bore his child , but who also was handpicked by him to lead the church . This plan , however , fell through after Christ ' s death because the other apostles , especially Peter , were enraged about Mary being Christ ' s successor . So she fled in fear of her life to France , where she raised Christ ' s daughter . There , so the story goes , Christ ' s lineage intermarried with French royalty , thereby creating the Merovingian bloodline of kings .
Virtually everyone knew this " truth " during Christianity ' s earliest years , says Brown ' s book . But then , by recasting Mary " as a whore in order to erase evidence of her powerful family ties ," male church leaders were able to begin " the greatest cover-up in human history ." These religious villains also changed the originally pagan , goddess-worshiping church into a Jesus-worshiping ,
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