Tuesday, August 31, 2004

Da Vinci Spoilers

Well, I tried looking at the Dead Sea Scrolls. To my astonishment, they mention nothing of Jesus. You know why? Because they were all written before Jesus was born. So negative points for Dan Brown and his "Da Vinci Code". The more I read, the more Brown is a raving lunatic who spouts these "facts" that are completely wrong. And yes, in the beginning of the book, he states what is "fact". oy.
1. The Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in 1947, not the "1950's"
2. The "expert" in the book claims that the gnostic gospels are more reliable than the ones we have in the bible (Matthew, Mark, Luke and John). Fails to mention that M, M, L and J were written in the first century AD. Pretty close to Jesus huh? John was one of his disciples. Furthermore, the gnostic ones were written in the second century. That would be like me writing about the Revolutionary war as a first hand writer. Also, one of the Gnostic Gospels, Gospel of Thomas, says that Jesus said women must become and act like men in order to be saved. Not consistent.
3. Jesus was not voted on being divine in the Council of Nicea. As evident if you read the New Testament.
4. Those gods were not born on December 25! Where the heck did that come from??
5. The only basis for Jesus married to Mary Magdalene is the Gospel of Philip. He says that in Aramaic, "companion" and "spouse" are interchangeable. Well, that would make sense EXCEPT the Gospel was written in Coptic, not Aramaic.
6. Constantaine did not set up Sunday as the Lord's day. It is Sunday because that is the day Jesus rose from the dead. This is stated in the Book of Acts and First Corinthians.
7. APPLE is the answer to one of the riddles. Genesis never says apple -- it has always said "fruit".
8. Christianity is assumed to be "winning the battle" from its beginning. Christians were tortured and killed for their religion. Before Constantine, if you were Christian, you were fair game to be killed.
9. One source I found counted that panes in the Louvre pyramid and did not count 666. Other websites said 666. So, I'm not sure.
10. Constantine had no authority on the Bible at all.
11. After viewing this website: http://milano.arounder.com/PROJECTS/SANTA_MARIA_DELLE_GRAZIE/ It has a zoom in feature on the Last Supper. I saw who had a dagger. Everyone DOES have a hand. The man fourth from the left is holding a dagger in his hand.
12. Five million witches were not burned. Women and men would have been burned alike. In addition, the highest estimate I have ever seen on the witch hunts is 100,000. But it is usually stated as 20-30,000. Also, they would have been tortured/burned in other ways.

There are many others.

I have two more observations. All of the bad guys are "handicapped" in some way. The albino and the guy on crutches. The good guys are handsome, physically fit and smart.
Two, the companion or "truthworthy" person, the main character's best friend turns out to be the biggest enemy of all. Hmmm... Sounds familar. How about Spiderman? Unbreakable? Superman?

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