Da Vinci Code Pure Fiction
Dear Editor:
The Cannes Film Festival has a well earned reputation for notoriety but with the debut of
the Da Vinci Code film this Wednesday they will be giving new meaning to the term
“off limits.” What Hollywood’s Tom Hanks calls “a damn good story and a lot of fun”
Christians world-wide regard as highly blasphemous. If you don’t know what blasphemous
means look it up in the dictionary. Part of the dialogue in the movie has Jesus fathering Mary Magdalene’s children.
If Hollywood were to be so foolish as to treat so irreverantly the Quaran or Holocaust they
would without doubt provoke a world uprising. Witness the recent worldwide fury of Muslims over
newspaper cartoons in Denmark insulting the prophet Muhammad. There appears to be a
definite double standard in the film industry and media with respect to religion. It is wrong
to debase and insult religion unless, of course, it happens to be Christians and their faith.
One thing for sure. Dan Brown’s (author of Da Vinci Code) dire prediction that his book
spells the “end of Christianity, the end of the credibility of its moral leader; the end of Christ;
the end of his followers called Christians; and the end of Christian morality” is pure fiction
and reveals his own ignorance of church history.
The Da Vinci Code may dupe some religious illiterates in the short run but will not put
any serious dent in the Christian faith of millions. The bible and Christianity has stood the test
of time and will endure. Brown’s book and film will go the way of all flesh.
Gerald R Hall
Nanoose Bay, B.C.
