It's Fiction People!!!!!!!!!

Ok, so everyone is all upset about a book that is fiction. I personally believe this is all a marketing tool. Think about it, how many people are going to go see the movie for the simple reason there has been so much press about this so called controversy.

Why are Christians so upset about this book? It's FICTION!!! Why are so many ignoring this fact?

Here are some interesting fact and fictions regarding this story. Taken from an article in Today's Christian Woman and written by Susy Flory, Co-Author of Fear Not Da Vinci: Using the Code to Share Your Faith.


Fiction: Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene.
Fact: Eyewitness accounts of those who ate, traveled, and ministered with Jesus never so much as hint Jesus was married or fathered a child. His mother, brothers and cousins are mentioned, but never a wife.

Fiction: Mary Magdalene is in the last supper.
Fact: When The Last Supper was just a few years old, one observer described it as "so badly preserved that one can only see a middle of blots". In this muddle, seated next to Jesus' right is John, portrayed as a beardless, slightly feminine youth. During the Italian Renaissance, artists such as Michelangelo and Botticelli helped popularize this feminized ideal of male beauty.

Fiction: Mona Lisa was really a man.
Fact: Mona Lisa's smile does hold a mystery. Dan Brown has that much right. Leonardo da Vinci kept journal upon journal, but he never gave this painting a title or even mentioned it. Who is she? Many art historians think the portrait represents 24-year old Madonna Lisa di Giaconda, or Lisa from Giaconda. But Leonardo doesn't say.

Fiction: The early church leaders conspired to hide the truth of Christianity's origins and repress the power of goddess worship.
Fact: Instead of hiding the truth, early church leaders painstakingly worked to copy eyewitness accounts of Jesus' life and ministry and distribute them as widely as possible. As for goddess worship, ancient cultures did worship female deities, but most of them were counterparts o female deities, not expample of female empowering. In fact, the Gnostic writing often cited in the Da Vinci Code say, "For every woman who will make herself male will enter the Kingdom of Heaven" (Gospel of Thomas 114). On the contrary, Jesus demonstrated the value of women by speaking to and working with women at a time when a Jewish man wouldn't dare be seen in public with a woman.

Fiction: Jesus' bloodline is alive and well today.
Fact: The Da Vinci Code tantalizes readers with the possibility Jesus' descendants might still walk to the earth. Although Dan Brown fans the flames o conspiracy theory, if someone alive today could prove he or she were related to Jesus Christ, who would be able to keep that under wraps? But people curious about Jesus and his true identity, and this curiosity powers the popularity of The Da Vinci Code and its make-believe mystery.

I for one want to see the movie, I love a good mystery. And the fact Tom Hanks is in the movie and it's directed by Ron Howard it should be some great entertainment... And that is the KEY people...It's a movie based on book that is FICTION! Fiction...Meaning it's NOT TRUE! SO get over the hype and the over dramatic reactions...