The Da Vinci Code phenomenon continues to gain steam with the release of the movie May 19, new books on secret Christian con-spiracies and the recent release of the Gospel of Judas. Dan Brown's work of fiction, which has now sold 40 million copies (the new paperback has already sold 6 million), continues to fascinate some readers and frustrate others.Īnd the movie, directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks, promises to expose millions more people to what Brown claims is the darkest conspiracy in the history of the church. Ron Howard, in an interview with Newsweek, boldly proclaims the movie is faithful to the book: "It would be ludicrous to take on this subject and then try to take the edges off. We're doing this movie because we like the book." The "edges" Howard describes are what the Da Vinci controversy is all about: a deep, dark conspiracy about hiding the true nature of Jesus. According to The Da Vinci Code, Jesus was really just a human being, married to Mary Magdalene, and he has a royal bloodline that continues to this day. The Da Vinci Code 2006 Overview A murder inside the Louver and intimations in Da Vinci compositions prompt to the disclosure of a religious puzzle secured by a mystery society for two thousand years which could shake the establishments of Christianity. The Church, in order to hide the true nature of Jesus, destroyed the earlier, Gnostic Gospels that had the evidence of Jesus' humanity, and declared them heretical in a play for political power. Voting to make Jesus divine at the Council of Nicea, all other points of view were brutally suppressed.
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