Top Cardinal Blasts 'Da Vinci Code' as 'Cheap Lies'

I was raised to believe in god and the bible and such, but I never really took to it. I went to a Church of England primary school, but as I grew older I just couldn't believe it.

I understand that everyone is free to believe in what they want to, but when it is forced upon them from childhood they have difficulty questioning it as they grow older, whereas it would be best to raise a child without any religion and then when they are intelligent enough let them choose what they want. I would rather focus on raising a child to be a good person than living by some old and out-dated rules set by some old book.

What they did in the Da Vinci Code is pretty poxy. It can be done with any number of books or lyrics, all you need is the right combination.

On an Australian TV show called John Safran's Music Jamboree, he used the lyrics of Vanilla Ice's Ice Ice Baby, to see if Vanilla Ice predicted the collapsing of the Twin Towers in New York.

The results were pretty funny, because you had things like, aeroplane cross with buildings, and stuff like that.

The result of the hypothesis was that Vanilla Ice predicted the 11th September attack on the TT's.

I'm Catholic and I read the book over a year ago. In the beginning, the book clearly states what is fact and what is fiction. Anyone with an open mind should not see any problem with it. I loved the book, its one of the best I have read in a while. And as posted in this thread, its basically FICTION!!

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Anna

I'm Catholic and I read the book over a year ago. In the beginning, the book clearly states what is fact and what is fiction. Anyone with an open mind should not see any problem with it. I loved the book, its one of the best I have read in a while. And as posted in this thread, its basically FICTION!!

Go State! Beat Old Dominion!

Anna

My point was that Dan Brown hasn't marketed his books as if they are to be taken as solid truth, so I think the church is overreacting.

Becky

the irony of a bishop claiming a book to be deceptive.

He's probably more incensed that it highlights the really shitty stuff the Catholic church has got upto over the centuries.

Well, yes - but you're forgetting that some religious rules are also common civil rules. It's not as if religion and non-religion had completely different views, is it? They share the obvious ones. But that happens with everything: maybe what you see as a basic rule others won't, but that just doesn't mean their morality or whatever is worse than your own. They just view things differently.

Tolerance is good. I myself don't believe in organised, public religion either but I can see why people find solace in it.

Or to blame the big dude when things go wrong.