Showbiz Tonight & The DaVinci Code

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Showbiz Tonight covered a story tonight on The DaVinci and like everyone else refers to Dan Browns claim of fact on the first page of the book. Then Bill Donahue explains how he wrote a letter to Ron Howard asking for a disclaimer at the beginning of the film stating it’s fiction. These claims of fact are so blown out of proportion and people are writing entire books to debunk his claims when Brown himself admits on his official web site:

“HOW MUCH OF THIS NOVEL IS TRUE?
The Da DaVinci Code is a novel and therefore A WORK OF FICTION. While the book’s characters and their actions are obviously not real, the artwork, architecture, documents, and secret rituals depicted in this novel ALL EXIST (for example, Leonardo Da Vinci’s paintings, the Gnostic Gospels, Hieros Gamos, etc.). THESE REAL ELEMENTS ARE INTERPRETED AND DEBATED BY FICTIONAL CHARACTERS. While it is MY BELIEF that SOME of the THEORIES discussed by these characters MAY HAVE MERIT, each individual reader must explore these characters’ viewpoints and come to his or her own interpretations. My hope in writing this novel was that the story would serve as a catalyst and a springboard for people to discuss the important topics of faith, religion, and history.” (emphasis added)

danbrown.com/novels/davinci_code/faqs.html

I just can’t understand all the debate when it is as simple as this. I also can’t understand the reaction of people who read the book and completely fall for it being absolutely historic when I show them this printed from Brown’s web site and they still believe it. Even after seeing that Brown himself admits the book is fiction basically based on personal beliefs and only the elements are real.

This is a very disgusting way to sell books and movie tickets and is the only obvious explanation here. To purposely make fools of people and lead them to believe something that blatantly isn’t true! You can’t tell me that between the Catholic League and all the media that everyone has missed this little bit of info. Dan Brown at least knows this and yet he allows all the controversy stir, the only answer to this could be just to make a buck. The Catholic League is just making it worse by protesting something that isn’t worth protesting adding more full to the fire. Why?
 
Why?
  1. People are ignorant of history and believe whatever they read.
  2. Anti-Catholics enjoy having their deepest suspicions confirmed, even when the novel’s author tells them that it’s fiction.
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  4. Martin Lunn and others present wild theories as fact, all based on the *Da Vinci Code’s * popularity.
  5. Brown’s statement at the book’s beginning convinces some that the story is real. Brown’s website statement obviously means that Opus Dei got to him.
 

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But, that’s not what I was asking why to. Why is the Catholic League also playing the game? Why all the books popping up to counter the claims when it a simple as using Brown’s own words? It seems as if the money machine is generating on both sides of this issue. This whole thing could be exposed if people such as Bill Donahue referred people to Brown’s website, but the insighting of religious battles seems to be path choosen. Why? That is my question.

The whole attack on Catholosism is being blown way out of proportion as well. This was a pretty serious attack on Christ and of coarse He is taking a backseat.
 
I like the Catholic League…but many is the time that Bill Donohue buys into his own hype and says and does stupid things.
 
Some people actually have a lot of trouble distinguishing between fantasy and reality. I remember that Dan Blocker used to tell a story about how, after an event he attended, a woman came up to him and told him, “Listen, when you get back to the Ponderosa, tell your Pappy to fire that Chinese cook and get himself a woman to cook for you boys.”

Blocker replied, “Ma’am, when I leave here, I’m going home to my wife and children.”

The woman looked at him as though he thought she was incredibly stupid and said, "I get that. But when you get back to the Ponderosa, tell your Pappy . . . "

Besides, fiction can have an incredible influence on people, and the more times a lie is repeated, the more people will believe it.
 
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