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Interesting comment, re: the Damned Book
Apr. 23rd, 2006 02:31 pmThere's a discussion about the Damned Book on ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
catholics and someone had this to say about it:
"Some people have brought up the point that "it's only fiction." This is one of the best counter arguments to that I have ever seen. It was taken from a comment someone made on Amy Welborn's blog.
"Imagine someone writes a fictional book in which your mother is the main character. It describes her as having prostituted herself, cheated on your dad, and tried to kill you. But you shouldn't feel insulted because it's only fiction, right?
"Wrong. You'd be angry, and you certainly wouldn't go out and buy that book. You would make it just as clear as you possibly could that your mom was NOT a prostitute or murderer, because you would know that even though the story was made up, it would change the way a lot of people looked at your mother.
"The Church is our mother. The things that Dan Brown writes about the Church are just the same as if someone said those terrible things about your earthly mother. It does not matter that it is fiction. The slander is out there and people are believing it. Most people believe that "where there's smoke there's fire" and there must be SOME truth to the conspiracy theories about the Catholic Church. Dan Brown himself makes it very clear that he believes that what he wrote is more than just fiction."
Also, Catholic Answers has this page: http://www.catholic.com/library/cracking_da_vinci_code.asp One paragraph in particular has always stood out for me:
"[...]In spinning its conspiracy tale, The Da Vinci Code relies on information provided by documents that are established forgeries: Les Dossiers Secretes. Doubleday's release of the book is comparable to a major publisher releasing a novel based on anti-Jewish forgeries such as The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. If the publisher would turn down an anti-Jewish conspiracy novel based on these documents, it should do the same with The Da Vinci Code. The fact that it did not do so reveals a double standard and bigotry toward Christianity on its part."
catholics and someone had this to say about it:"Some people have brought up the point that "it's only fiction." This is one of the best counter arguments to that I have ever seen. It was taken from a comment someone made on Amy Welborn's blog.
"Imagine someone writes a fictional book in which your mother is the main character. It describes her as having prostituted herself, cheated on your dad, and tried to kill you. But you shouldn't feel insulted because it's only fiction, right?
"Wrong. You'd be angry, and you certainly wouldn't go out and buy that book. You would make it just as clear as you possibly could that your mom was NOT a prostitute or murderer, because you would know that even though the story was made up, it would change the way a lot of people looked at your mother.
"The Church is our mother. The things that Dan Brown writes about the Church are just the same as if someone said those terrible things about your earthly mother. It does not matter that it is fiction. The slander is out there and people are believing it. Most people believe that "where there's smoke there's fire" and there must be SOME truth to the conspiracy theories about the Catholic Church. Dan Brown himself makes it very clear that he believes that what he wrote is more than just fiction."
Also, Catholic Answers has this page: http://www.catholic.com/library/cracking_da_vinci_code.asp One paragraph in particular has always stood out for me:
"[...]In spinning its conspiracy tale, The Da Vinci Code relies on information provided by documents that are established forgeries: Les Dossiers Secretes. Doubleday's release of the book is comparable to a major publisher releasing a novel based on anti-Jewish forgeries such as The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. If the publisher would turn down an anti-Jewish conspiracy novel based on these documents, it should do the same with The Da Vinci Code. The fact that it did not do so reveals a double standard and bigotry toward Christianity on its part."