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BBC News: Church fights Da Vinci Code novel

“The book is everywhere. There is a very real risk that many people who read it will believe that the fables it contains are true.”

So there you have it. A poorly-written potboiler whose central premise is borrowed wholesale from another book - whose authors have been comprehensively debunked on several occasions as the victims of a convoluted hoax - is shaking the 2000 year-old Catholic Church to it’s very foundations. God forbid that the gullible and weak-minded will start believing fictions - who knows where it might lead.

Chicken Yoghurt: Blogger fights Bible novel

“The book is everywhere. There is a very real risk that many people who read it will believe that the fables it contains are true.”


Posted on March 17th, 2005 at 7:51 am

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2 Comments

  1. Pollo on 17.03.2005 at 09:35 Permalink | Reply

    When you wrote:

    “So there you have it. A poorly-written potboiler whose central premise is borrowed wholesale from another book - whose authors have been comprehensively debunked on several occasions as the victims of a convoluted hoax”

    I thought you were talking about The Bible!

  2. Robin on 17.03.2005 at 09:45 Permalink | Reply

    me too!

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