The 'controversy' behind the da Vinci code book for anyone who's been living under a rock is that Jesus married and impregnated Mary Magdeline. This is a fact known to few people and Leonardo da Vinci slipped it into one of his many anti-Christian frescos, The Last Supper' which unless you were blind is plainly obvious. Brian Sewell disagrees with me, Dan Brown, millions of art historians, and artists and wait for it even Leonardo da Vinci himself, commenting, and I quote, 'That's not a woman in that painting, it's St.John who was painted as a pretty man because Leonardo was a big queer!' That, my friends, is the opinion of the incredibly androgynous Brian Sewell there, the only man to dismiss Leonardo da Vinci, the artist, scientist, genius, and inventor as a 'big queer.' Prat.
Last week I was stopped by a bloody idiot. I should clarify that he was a closed minded Christian, and asked me a number of stupid questions. Let me walk you throught the conversation:
Christian: 'Hello child have you read the da Vinci Code?'
Seanna: (while holding the book in hand) 'Yeah I'm reading it for the second time it's really good.'
Christian: 'Do you know that it's been made into a film? Have you seen it yet?'
Seanna: (sighing at the idiocy) 'That would be a bit hard cause its not on general release until the nineteenth, don't get me wrong I'll be there to see it when it comes out.'
Christian: 'Can I give you this leaflet? It outlines the evils of the book and it's inaccuracies.'
Seanna: (taking the leaflet, ready to fight my cause) 'I'll take it but that doesn't mean I'll agree with it.'
The first passage pointed out to me was ,'True Christianity has at the very core the person of the Lord Jesus Christ, however, the da Vinci Code would have us believe that he was married with a child.'
Christian: 'That is wrong Jesus died for our sins and to believe that book (nudging at the book in my hand) is to believe he wasn't special, just an ordinary man.'
Seanna: 'And that�s hard to believe because? He was a man wasn't he? Flesh and blood? He obviously had urges and needs?'
Christian: (avoiding last comment) 'Look at this.'
Pointing out this passage: 'The suggestion that the bible is unreliable and a product of man doesn't stand the test of academic scrutiny. But it's an attractive proposal as it would undermine God's authority when, for example, he tells us that we've rebelled against his right to order our lives...
...'all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God... Romans 3:23
Seanna: (getting bored)'Have you read the book? Dan Brown has documentation, a record from the meeting of the council of Nicaea which created the Bible, this pamphlet is backing itself up with quotes from the Bible hiding behind itself and hiding behind the name of God.' (I think the fact I used air quotes when I said 'god' pissed him off)
Christian: 'The author doesn't care about the readers or obliterating faith, look at this'...
Pointing out another useless quote from this bloody leaflet ,'The da Vinci Code has become a massive 'best seller' an entertaining film and has made the author a multi millionaire.'
Seanna: 'Is that mean't to be offensive? It points out the success of the author and well done to him.'
Christian: 'He only cares about the money you see and...'
Seanna: (interrupting) 'Its his job he's hardly going to do it for free thats bloody stupid.'
Christian: 'It's morally wrong the book is questionning faith...'
Seanna: (interrupting again) 'Its a good book, Im glad Dan Brown is having success he deserves it, I'm bored of you now so I'm going for coffee and to read my book.'
And I left before I thumped him one.
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