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ancientjaguar ([personal profile] lady_kishiria) wrote2006-06-07 07:31 am

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I've been getting asked about the Da Vinci Code lately, so I decided to link to an entry I wrote a couple of years ago about it:

http://tepintzin.livejournal.com/82966.html

I said then it's a sexist book and even in [community profile] catholicism they've been saying that.

I also want to mention that the Priory of Sion was a hoax of Pierre Plantard's. He started it in the postwar years as a French monarchist revival group. When it got hijacked by Baignent et Cie to show he was rightfully king of France due to his being a descendant of Jesus and Mary Magdalene, he copped to the truth since he was a devout Catholic who couldn't stomach *that* idea.

I saw part of the movie yesterday and it's AWFUL. If I hadn't read both the book DVC and "Holy Blood, Holy Grail" I'd have had no idea what was going on. I enjoyed the book for what it was, groaning loudly at al the historical stupidities (which were plagiarized anyway), and admit it'd make a good thriller done right but it wasn't done right.

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