Friday, April 28, 2006

The da Vinci deceit

Lately with the movie "the da Vinci code" scheduled (doomed) to open on our shores soon, there has been a lot of advertisements of the movie and of course the source of all the mischief, the book itself. Frankly, this disgust me. Plain and simple, it disgusts me. The movie, the book but even more so the publicity and interest in what is simply a hoax, disgusts me, sickens me. Sadly enough, if you look through any Top 10 bestsellers list, Dan Brown minimally contributes 2 of them.

In all fairness, Dan Brown is a brilliant fiction writer. I read "Angels and Demons" which I found to be a compelling page turner, albeit one peppered with blasphemy masquerading as the 'truth'. Yet its unfortunate that he has chosen to abuse his talents in this manner.

Yesterday, as I was in BOB bookstore, I was looking for some books that would provide historical evidence disputing and refuting the da Vinci code. Then I was reminded that my pastor mentioned before that experts in spotting counterfeit notes are not trained by looking at counterfeit notes and spotting the differences. Rather, they intently study the real notes so they know a fake when they see one. There are very good material out there that demolish the lies established in the da Vinci code so there is little point in me elaborating further on how and why Dan Brown is a fraudster when he claims the novel uncovers facts.

If you have read through the book of Isaiah in particular, you would have found countless prophecies about the Messiah that was fulfilled in the life of Jesus. I don't want to elaborate further as I know many of my close friends do not share my faith and a kind of unwritten rule of my blog was to avoid broaching the subject of religion. Suffice for me to say that the Bible is 100% reliable and God is real. My hope (prayer) for you is that if you didn't know that, you will.

As for Dan Brown, I believe the time will come when people will take his claims in as much seriousness as the accusations hurled by Chee Soon Juan to the PAP. Other's have tried to dispute but the truth prevailed, as it has always done, as it always will.

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