Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Dan Brown and generalized "religiousness"

This is a great op-ed, published Monday in the New York Times:

Dan Brown's America
But the success of this message — which also shows up in the work of Brown’s many thriller-writing imitators — can’t be separated from its dishonesty. The “secret” history of Christendom that unspools in “The Da Vinci Code” is false from start to finish. The lost gospels are real enough, but they neither confirm the portrait of Christ that Brown is peddling — they’re far, far weirder than that — nor provide a persuasive alternative to the New Testament account. The Jesus of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John — jealous, demanding, apocalyptic — may not be congenial to contemporary sensibilities, but he’s the only historically-plausible Jesus there is.
BLOGGER, PLEASE EXPLAIN TO ME HOW THIS POST VIOLATED YOUR MALWARE AND VIRUSES POLICY AND HOW IT CAME TO BE FLAGGED.

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