05-26-2006, 03:23 PM
the da vinci code is one hellof a good marketing idea and that's probably it. if there is fact to the mergovingian king line started by jesus and the church destroyed the proof then we won't know for several thousand years. it took the church i think like 600 years to repeal the expulsion of galleleo from italy for saying the sun is in the middle of the solar system.
every single thing surrounding the da vinci code is a bestseller. the "factual" story, the de-bunking of the "factual" story, the fiction story, and the de-bunking of the fictional story are all best sellers. this is why it's so big because people think it's so fascinating. personally i could see jesus and mary and all that and it's one hell of a story. but i really don't believe either stories.
i also saw that history channel show that said teh priory of sion and the whole merovingian king line/jesus stuff was a complete setup created in 1309 or somesuch. so that could be why even the fictional (told as factual) story still have so much mystery to it because it's pretty damn old to start with.
i think what someone was refering to earlier was the gnostic texts when he said the catholic church was hiding documents. i've read that those texts are incomplete and in many places it's like half incomplete. such as...gnostics quote one of the texts as "jesus loved mary and treated her great in front of his disciples and kissed her mouth often" (this quote is similar to the actual quote i read but not verbatim) now, the de bunkers of the gnostics say the same quote is actually read like this .. " _____ loved ___ and treated her _____ in front of ______ and ____ her ____ often.) where more than half the text has crumbled to nothing in the last 2000 years.
anyway...
every single thing surrounding the da vinci code is a bestseller. the "factual" story, the de-bunking of the "factual" story, the fiction story, and the de-bunking of the fictional story are all best sellers. this is why it's so big because people think it's so fascinating. personally i could see jesus and mary and all that and it's one hell of a story. but i really don't believe either stories.
i also saw that history channel show that said teh priory of sion and the whole merovingian king line/jesus stuff was a complete setup created in 1309 or somesuch. so that could be why even the fictional (told as factual) story still have so much mystery to it because it's pretty damn old to start with.
i think what someone was refering to earlier was the gnostic texts when he said the catholic church was hiding documents. i've read that those texts are incomplete and in many places it's like half incomplete. such as...gnostics quote one of the texts as "jesus loved mary and treated her great in front of his disciples and kissed her mouth often" (this quote is similar to the actual quote i read but not verbatim) now, the de bunkers of the gnostics say the same quote is actually read like this .. " _____ loved ___ and treated her _____ in front of ______ and ____ her ____ often.) where more than half the text has crumbled to nothing in the last 2000 years.
anyway...