The Da Vinci Code Skeptics
In his introduction to the DaVinci Code, Brown makes serious claims for the book's historical research. Many critics in their reviews also suggest the history presented in the novel is essentially true. But novels and feature films tend to erase the hazy boundries between fiction and history. Church scholars and intellectuals are beginning to realize, therefore, that they must organize and fight back. However slight and slanted The Da Vinci Code's scholarship might appear, it will need to be fought. Otherwise, it's anti-Catholic accusations may well become the new gosple truth to millions. The Church's challenge, though, will be to find as appealing a package for the defence of orthodox Christianity as the Da Vinci Code's case for the pagans. Catholicism is Brown's target: both the Vatican and the modern-day conservative society Opus Dei, pictured at left, emerge from the novel, if not as outright villians, then as tarnished by association.
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