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Da Vinci Code

Started by oceanbear, 03/16/2005 03:39PM
Posted 03/16/2005 03:39PM Opening Post
ROME, Italy (Reuters) -- A top Catholic cardinal has blasted "The Da Vinci Code" as a "gross and absurd" distortion of history and said Catholic bookstores should take the bestseller off their shelves because it is full of "cheap lies."

"You can find that book everywhere and the risk is that many people who read it believe that those fairy tales are real," he said. "I think I have the responsibility to clear things up to unmask the cheap lies contained in books like that."


Is there anyone who does not see the humor in this?

There is definitely a pot and the kettle analogy going on here!

Darrell

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Posted 03/16/2005 04:22PM #1
It's a work of fiction. It's supposed to be full of cheap lies. 8)

Anyone who writes heresy in the context of a fictional novel takes the risk of being publicly denounced, if not worse. Salman Rushdie did basically the same thing with "The Satanic Verses", with predictable results.