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...human nature, but - another discovery of Dead Sea Scrolls significance excepted - relics cannot shed much light on whether we can put any trust in the truth of the New Testament. It seems to me that the great vehemence with which the Vatican attacked Dan Brown's fictional work The DaVinci Code was not because of concern about his story, but because the idea behind it illuminated, with exceptional clarity, the very real possibility that, whatever the truth may be, it may not be what we have been told by the Roman Catholic Church. And this is hardly a minor issue...
...under and literally scared the Hell into people–brought in guest speaker Jerry Falwell for a frank discussion on Sodom and Gomorrah and extended an invitation to Mel Gibson to come tell everyone about the (virginal) passion of Christ. A ritualistic burning of “The DaVinci Code” could have followed...
...couple tease each other and complete one another’s sentences. “I actually had a crush on his roommate. In a ploy to get his roommate to go out with me, I invited all of his roommates to go to see ‘The DaVinci Code,’” Amy says of their first date. “This was the only one willing to drop everything and go. I was a little disappointed,” she jokes. “Luke? Really?”Luke lightheartedly counters, saying that...
...camera panned from one happy smiling contestant to the other, and then to me and I’m making this egregiously awful face on national television,” recalls Petri. The answer was “DaVinci Code” author Dan Brown, but her response...
...summer began, for me, at the Cannes Film Festival, where I was granted a partial view seat for The DaVinci Code. I saw enough of it to be mystified at the failure of the estimable Tom Hanks and the enigmatic Audrey Tatou to generate the slightest romantic frisson (pardon my French) as they darted around Europe on their anti-clerical rounds. It ended, for me, with The Illusionist, a rather handsome gaslit period piece in which I failed to understand what Edward Norton saw in the blandly beautiful Jessica Biel, even though I did like his magic tricks...