Church, work and stuff

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We're having a meeting at church tomorrow night on the Da Vinci Code. It's a sort of evangelistic judo, to use it for starting discussions on 'how reliable are the NT documents' or 'who was Jesus, really'. I managed to miss the bit where we trek around the town (we have the Hilliest Town in the County Down) shoving invitations through doors because I was at work (it has to be good for something).

If I were taking the meeting, it would run thusly: 'Frankly, I've seen better research in the pages of the Sun, and if Dan Brown told me the earth was round, I'd want to verify it before I believed it. Oh, and the characters are cardboard, the plot has holes big enough for dolphins to escape through, and the style stinks. Any questions?'

It's a good thing I'm not, then :)


Sometimes I love my work. Today I discovered that one of the other area teams had labelled their Deductions, D[eceased] file, "The Book of the Dead".

Comments

[leeflower.livejournal.com]

My problem with the DaVinci Code is the people who are treating it like it's fact. It's just a novel. I'm sick to death of all the "Cracking the DaVinci Code" and "Inside The Code" and "The Truth Behind the Code" books that are all over the place. The truth behind the code is there isn't any. What's next? Books about whether Hogwarts is real?

I haven't read the book myself, but the movie failed to impress me. Sir Ian McKellan is always worth the price of admission, but really, it was just "National Treasure, but in Europe." The plot was practically identical. The acting was better, but the plot was the same.

It's cheap historical fiction, and not very historical at that-- Opus Dai has only been around since the fifties, for starters. It's a beachnovel. I don't get why everyone's so obsessed with it. It really just Isn't That Good.

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It's that little thing on the first page which starts out Fact! All secret societies, artwork, ancient documents well apart from that embarrassing mixup between the Dead Sea and Nag Hammedi scrolls that is blah blah are as described in the novel

The man can't even get well-known basic facts right; what are the chances he's right about anything else? The number of people who actually believe it's all true, without verifying any of it, is....scary.

[leeflower.livejournal.com]

well, you read it in a book it must be true, right?

::eyeroll::

Gotta love stupid people.