The Da Vinci Code has become quite the rage... My wife and I saw it a week or so ago. It was very entertaining to say the least and of course it stoked my curiosity. History is something I really enjoy especially when it doesn’t revolve around school.

I recently stumbled upon a page that finds errors in the book/film.The article is entitled: How The Da Vinci Code Doesn't Work

One of the articles first errors that even a village idiot like me could figure out was the GPS unit tracking Robert Langdon. It seemed too small to really work (it looked like a watch battery) and besides it’s a simple fact: GPS doesn’t work indoors. (You can’t see the satellites while indoors.) However the Rosslyn Chapel does really exit… I thought it might be an interesting place to visit someday.

It is interesting to poke holes in to Television and movies. I do it all the time with my parents and their seemingly intense love of cheesy murder mystery shows. CSI drives me insane with inaccuracies in technology and even basic police work. Don’t even get me started with that damn Angela Landsbury Murder She Wrote Crap. That show is like Heroin for my parents. They have been hooked since the 80’s. Even Betty Ford hasn’t been able to free them from their addiction. Working for 911 hasn’t made it any easier to watch this crap. Sad television addictions is a blog topic for another day.

Back to Da Vinci and his little “secret”. So it seems that the big secret is Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene and they allegedly had children and gasp there are living descendents of Jesus living around the world. According to the book/movie this means that Jesus was not divine but merely a good man. This is the secret that the Catholic Church keeps. My question is so how does this remove his divinity? Marriage makes it so one is not divine? Oh Boy will my mother in law be relieved that I am not a God. How does having a child make you not a God? Aren’t we all God’s children? The Catholic Church outlawed marriage of its clergy at Second Lateran Council in 1139 under Pope Gregory VII. It was widely believed that marriage in the church hierarchy would destroy the dwindling wealth of the church by dividing its holdings through heirs and claims against the church. (see Canon 5) I guess I don’t understand how marriage and children has any affects on the divinity of God. Either you are divine or you aren’t.

I guess people are just looking for reasons not to believe in God.

Here is a quote sent to me recently via email. While I cannot verify its validity, it is an interesting comedic commentary on the state of America.

“With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud slides,
flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one
end to another, and with the threat of bird flu and terrorist
attacks,

Are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge
of Allegiance?”

~Jay Leno~