Dunno, but I'd like to see a similar referendum on Christian Literature and the Bible before free speech gets de bunked. The Da Vinci Code was a fun and harmless read in the same sense that Michael Crichton stretches the limits of current scientific abilities and reason to render implausible consequences of currently feasible if not applicable scientific theory. If the Church is that convinced that Dan Brown is wrong - then apply scientific and academic scrutiny to the suggestions and prove them wrong. Faith alone is not going to win this one, and deliberately suppressing the women's role in the early Christian church does not seem far fetched given other evidence to support it.
Look - I'm not necessarily supporting the Da Vinci Code here. But I have had long held suspicions and disappointments in the Catholic Church's ability or willingness to adopt, interpret, or investigate any possible alternatives to the current doctrine.
Criticize all you want, but the phrase "He who lives in a glass house" comes to mind here....
Dan Brown was being sued by the authors of "Holy Blood, Holy Grail." He stole a lot of their research from that book for his. I think I have a link - yes - here:
Yes - I'm a "Recovering Catholic". If you haven't guessed by now, I don't play well with others in patriarchal dictatorships (i.e. the Catholic Church). I've never been good with "believe this because I say so". I need to beleive it because I know it's true and I can prove it, or it's been proven to me. I'm a confirmed agnostic at this point.
Hey, are you an ex-Catholic, too?
Dan Brown was being sued by the authors of "Holy Blood, Holy Grail." He stole a lot of their research from that book for his. I think I have a link - yes - here:
http://www.malnurturedsnay.net/BlogData/archives/2004/12/well_not_only_d.html