Posted by AuntieMel on May 2, 2005, at 12:30:08
In reply to Do You Believe the DaVinci Code?, posted by Phillipa on April 30, 2005, at 21:15:38
I read it - and did some searching to try to determine fact/fiction.
The book itself is fiction, but many, many of the things it draws on are fact. Exactly where it deviates from fact is what is being debated.
Jesus married? It would be must unusual if he wasn't. And it seems highly likely that if he wasn't it would have been mentioned in the gospels.
The Gnostic gospels do exist and the quotes from them are accurate. Opus Dei does exist, though they insist they are misrepresented. The Knights Templar did exist.
I just bought "Holy blood, Holy grail" one of the sources (I hear) of the book.
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