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Dan Brown’s novel The Da Vinci Code is essentially an expression of man’s longing for a different world.  The plot revolves round the quest for the Holy Grail which in the end turns out to be nothing.  “The End of Days” when the Grail was supposed to be revealed turns out to be nothing more than “a legend of paranoid minds,” according to a character in the novel.  It is the mystery of life and our capacity for wonderment that is the real Holy Grail, the character explains. The novel is primarily a thriller.  But the author is a highly knowledgeable person who makes ample and effective use of his knowledge about the Catholic Church and its institutions.  The Church has reasons to be irate with Dan Brown because the novel undermines one of the most fundamental doctrines of Catholicism: that Jesus was a bachelor.  Mary Magdalene is Jesus’ wife in the novel’s exploration and their lineage continues to this day.  Aphrodite Ancient Greek goddess Emperor Constantine’s enthusia

Our perception constitutes most of our realities.  That’s why one man’s food is another’s anathema.  What is divine for me may be profane for you and vice versa.  In Dan Brown’s most controversial novel, The Da Vinci Code , Langdon tells Sophie, “ [E]very faith in the world is based on fabrications.  That is the definition of faith – acceptance of that which we imagine to be true , that which we cannot prove.” [Italics in the original] We take a lot of things on faith.  When it comes to religion, faith is all that matters.  And faith necessarily transmogrifies reality.  Faith can make an animal more sacred than your neighbour whom you may kill in order to safeguard the sacredness of the animal.  The sacred animal, like anything else in religion, is a metaphor.  “Every religion describes God through metaphor, allegory and exaggeration, from the early Egyptians through modern Sunday school,” explains Langdon.  “Metaphors are a way to help our minds process the unprocessib

When you play with children, choose to lose.  Winning means a whole new world to children.   When you play with religious leaders, choose to lose.  If they don’t win against you, you are damned.  Read history if you don’t believe me.  The best scientists, the best artists, the best writers, all chose to lose to religion.  Remember Galileo, for example.  Or Leonardo da Vinci. Salman Rushdie is a living example.  There are infinite examples in between. Religious leaders are children.  With the difference that some of their physical organs have grown beyond childhood. When you play with politicians, never lose.  If you lose, you are doomed.  The best is never play with politicians, unless you are an incorrigible crook or you are desperate enough to be shot dead in some encounter-killing-game staged with the help of the state machinery. Now imagine playing with a religious leader who is also the chief minister of your state.  Having watched some of the TV appearances of Yog