Finally got around to digging into The DaVinci Code. Friday night I started the book, and couldn't put it down till I forced myself to at 3:30 am the next morning, with only about 40 pages left.
Wow.
Don't want to totally spoil anything if someone (Cory?) thinks he might read it someday, but there's a number of what sort of seem like earth-shattering assertions made about the truth of Christianity as it was intended (pre-Emperor Constantine in A.D. 1011, who made radical changes to the religion in order to appease a Catholic Church that was getting more and more influential). Anyway, it is kind of crazy yet affirming for the that the way Jesus is depicted from accurrate historical records and in many of the other 70-some odd gospels that were eliminated from the Bible is a lot more in line with the great spiritual leader that it SEEMS like he should be to me, rather than the figure he has been made out to be in popular culture for the last few hundred years, a distortion/interpretation that has played a major part in driving me away from the church, both intellectually and in conscience.
I am very interested, when this book is finished, in trying to seek out some academic-oriented reading on the subject.
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Glad to see you reading books on such heavy topics. I am a man who will pray to God and ask him for the wisdom to know the right path to walk down. Then I will follow with a faithful heart. You are the Head and I am the Heart. Together we know and feel a lot. :)
I am the head and you are the shaft.
Together we are a big dick headed towards a dark and wet place. :0
The secret of the afterlife. It is a vulva.
A. DaVinci Code, while very entertaining, is not 'heavy' reading. It's considered blasphemous by many wacko Christians.
B. Cory's going to hell for that.
Right-no one is considering DaVinci code heaving reading here, I think.
But I am definitely interested in digging down into the heavy reading that debates the topics that were discussed therein.
Oh, and we can't mention Leonardo DaVinci without also bringing up Pat Mixdorf's stellar voice-over work in DaVinci's Subs radio commercials for one of my college advertising class projects. Still have it on tape-really should have made it a hidden track on "MIXDOWN!"
Cory said you were reading books with 'heavy' topics. While I agree that the topic of dogmatic manipulation is heavy, the Da Vinci code isn't exactly heavy scholarship.
It certainly brings up topics of heavy scholarship. Maybe moreso than any suspense thriller I'm aware of (though, admittedly, I'm not aware of many).
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