The Da Vinci Code and the Index of banned books
It speaks all ... at least one post here is because (then it goes without saying that this is all free advertising that will benefit only Dan Brown).
I think Mr Brown has been skilful in constructing a novel that can provide an explanation of the origins of the Church based on conspiracy and sull'inganno designed by a group of men (former followers of Christ) whose sole purpose was to conquer and store for 2000 years a kind of power over people or better still on the minds. The fact is that all students (both believers and atheists) have agreed that all the sources cited by Brown as absolutely unreliable and inaccurate, but I think this is not the point: the book has done and continues to discuss so many people ( not to mention that that is not looking for networking) ...
In my opinion people do not care that much that the view of Brown is reliable or not: what many are trying (and who found in the Da Vinci Code) is the opportunity to discredit and criticize the Church for every possible way imaginable. Putting all'Indice the novel, the Church has wanted to simply make a gesture with which he took a stand against the contents of the book: we are all free to have a say in our ways that we believe more correct, but when we test the Church here is that all turn against you ... But why?
If the Church is to maintain and preserve the unchanging message of Christ and if he tries to defend it with all his might because it has to be accused of obscurantism, bigotry, theocracy, as often is pronounced and expressed his position?
Brown for his part was very clever to exploit its advantage in this auction, more or less latent in the Church and is also shown by the fact that a few years ago had tried to launch another novel "Angels and Demons", which follows so ridiculous at times the construction of the Da Vinci Code, then in fact "Angels and Demons" has become visible (at least here in Italy) just after the release of The Da Vinci Code.
Well, the book is interesting and captivating, agree. However, I believe that there are infinitely more important books in the sense that insinuate the tarlo of the doubt on phenomena that affect us even more closely. I was reading when Brown gave me a book, also on a plot that has caught me completely, so that Brown's I have not felt the lack. It was Tarpley's book, "The factory of terror", also a bestseller, but probably a whole new and, I believe, must-read. Tarpley, who among other things he edited "The New World" for Mondadori, is a historian and investigative journalist based in Washington, and New York roots and is an expert on international terrorism and an American citizen who is considered loyal to the tradition of the fathers American founding, which has a large banner in Abraham Lincoln, but his book focuses on September 11, speaks of a plot of planetary scope. Tarpley in his book, which has also received the praises of a former CIA agent and as a Marine Robert Steele, argued well, I think, that things are going as they are told. For Tarpley it must envisage the possibility of false-flag attacks on 11 September. And I must say that the book is so well argued, with numerous references to experts in various fields.