da vinci code?

Question

is everything written in that book true. i feel the church has hidden the facts from ppl. is it true. i've started to belive dan brown now. wat r ur views abt it???

Answer 1

There maybe some truth to it and there may not be. We'll probably never know. Technically it's just one man's interpretation of religion. If you choose to believe it then that is your right as human being.

Answer 2

No...most of that book are just cleverly embellished facts and flat out fairy tales.



I.e., the Priory of Scion doesn't exist and there is positively no evidence that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were ever romantic. The "feminine" looking disciple in Da Vinci's painting was a very common way of portraying young men during Da Vinci's era. It's supposed to be St. John, not Mary.



The BBC, CBS News and the Discovery Channel all did exposes of the theories that the book is based on, and they all came to the same conclusion: There is no Da Vinci code...except in the mind of Dan Brown and conspiracy theorizing church bashers.

Answer 3

the wonderful thing about the da vinci code is that the fine line between reality adn fiction is lost in the book... it seems that everything you're reading is true even if it is considered fiction...



the book is mainly based on true facts like there is such thing as opus dei, the free masons, among other things



but the plot itself is based on fiction that is conveniently supported by fact.. (it doesn't help that some facts we know today esp the biblical ones are a bit vague...)



for example, the main controversy in the book is that mary magdalene is the wife of jesus, etc, etc... at first, hearing about this notion, one'd think, it's crazy but then, according to what i watched in discovery channel, in a town named after mary magdalene (forgot which country is it in), there's a legend about her coming to their town via sea hence the name of their town... **



in a way, convenient but very vague findings like those, coupled with some jumped conclusions... when those so called conclusions are strung together, it forms a fiction that seems so real but in actually, isn't all true...



i hope this helps...



** i'm not sure about this since i watched the documentary that mentioned that a long long long time ago... about 2 years i think...

Answer 4

The theories laid out in Holy Blood & Holy Grail (since that's where the Da Vinci Code cribs a majority of its theories and evidence from) are interesting enough and there are a lot of interesting points made, but there isn't a lot of hard evidence actually supporting them. The whole Free Mason/secret society thing in France reminds me of the Kennedy assassination, it's become a cottage industry to manufacture the information to a point where it gets difficult telling the out right lies from real evidence.

I find it's more interesting to read about the actual Albignesian crusades and the various variations of Christianity that the Nicene Creeders ( Is there a collective term for this grouping, since it's not just Catholic?) put down, but that never sells a lot books. Catharian links to the Bogomils and Manicheans seem more likely than secret hidden knowledge.

In the same way, whether the Templars connect to something like the peasant's revolt of 1381 (Wat Tyler's Rebellion) is a lot more interesting than rumors and claims that they have a direct connection to the Free Masons of the 18th Century. You only have to look at claims made by the neo-wiccans or Aleister Crowley to start doubting anyone who claims ancient hidden knowledge passed down in secret.

Answer 5

It is a work of fiction that contains a lot of "historical references". The theory it presents is not an original one. In fact there is a work of nonfiction that presents "evidence" of a blood line. The places described in the book are real. Even the list of Priori members is real. But the story and characters are fictional. Dan Brown used the theory that Jesus married Mary Magdelan and the church covered it up, and then wrapped an exciting story around it.

Answer 6

This was written as fiction, not fact. There are bits that are true, and bits that are not. A bit like novels written about a particular era in time. My husband read novels about a soldier taking part in Waterloo, etc., called Sharpe who was completely fictitious. You need to realise that although a book is based on true history, that doesn't necessarily mean that everything in it is true.



Blessings, Gypsy Queen

Answer 7

Like the bible, The Da Vinci code is a book that is a mix of fact, fiction, and fiction based on fact. What is truly fact and what is fiction is up to the reader to decide.

Answer 8

It's very hard to say if Dan Brown's work is to be 'believed' or not since it's a work of fiction...



But there IS this news story I read a few months back in a very reliable newspaper. Go here.



http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=2007022815262400.htm&date=2007/02/28/&prd=th&

Answer 9

Not everything in the book is true.



But the church hiding things? That's definitely true.