I’m finding the art history more interesting than anything else – I’ve been through my period of questionning Church teaching and doctrines and made up my mind on it. It’s interesting to hear other ideas, but I honestly think that people ultimately seek out the stuff that they *want* to hear when it comes to justifying their faith or lack of it. It’s too much for my feeble brain to sort out, who’s right and who’s wrong (and I have tried)- Jesus said that we should approach the world with love and compassion, that seems pretty much agreed on, and I’m cool with trying to live my life like that.

Anyway, Davinci Code. Not a particularly well-written novel – certainly doesn’t belong in the canon of great literature. Interesting ideas, sparked some cuiosity about Davinci (for me). I don’t see Tom Hanks as Landon, though.

Actually, when the book was in it?s prime of popularity. Ben Witherington ( http://www.benwitherington.com/ and http://benwitherington.blogspot.com/) spoke at my church about the book and it?s claims. But having not read the book, I was a bit clueless.

Perspective! It’s a novel meant to make money. He’s doing quite well with that goal.

Finding reliable information such as what you seek…well, stay here. We plan to continue facilitating conversations about the reliability of this type of stuff.

BTW, Rea, are you in Amsterdam?

thanks for welcoming me here. Actually English is not my native language, probably this is why you were a little confused by my post:)

Anyway I hope I can express what I meant. I’ve seen that a lot of “The Da Vinci Code”‘s readers have never been exposed before to materials about the Bible, they might even never read the Bible before. And I am thinking more about those who because of missunderstandings or negative impressions (experiences) about Christianity will purposefully neglect, avoid and even attack anything that has to do with the Bible or even God. So when they are presented with such a book as The Da Vinci Code, it fits them to find more reasons about their attitude toward Christ. They embrace Dan Brown’s “theories” or as I called them “revelations” as truths of life, without doubting about Dan’s realibility. For example in one of the forums, a young lady was caught in the “fact” that Constantin the Great wrote the Bible!! I haven’t reached to that part of the book yet. but when I read her post, the first question that came to my mind was ” has she ever been interested to know about how the Bible was written? Has she ever read anything about the Bible? Or even does she want to know about the Bible? Why?” Otherwise, she would not be scandalised. And I am affraid that she would not do it and will continue to live her life with Dan Brown’s theories.

So this has been my question as I am reading the book. Dan opens a door to information that I’ve not known before, but how reliable is this information?!