On 2005-12-27 02:07, Candini wrote:
From Collin Hansen:

"Though unoriginal in its allegations, The Da Vinci Code proves that some misguided theories never entirely fade away. They just reappear periodically in a different disguise. Brown's claims resemble those of Arius and his numerous heirs throughout history, who have contradicted the united testimony of the apostles and the early church they built. Those witnesses have always attested that Jesus Christ was and remains God himself. It didn't take an ancient council to make this true. And the pseudohistorical claims of a modern novel can't make it false."


Just remembering the keyword "fiction."

Arius' teachings were probably closer to the original Christian beliefs than to what has been filtered through the Church's attempts to make Christianity palatable to the Romans and then bequeathed to us today. "The united testimony of the apostles and the early church they built" probably contains more fiction in that short phrase than in the entire novel under discussion.

On 2005-12-28 03:37, Candini wrote:
Everyone has their own beliefs or nonbeliefs.