by
Sylvia Dooling
Last week, my sister-in-law (Gretchen Dooling) wrote to ask what I know
about the best-selling book, The Da Vinci Code. As I have not read the book,
I was unable to help.
Yesterday, Viola Larson wrote to say that she had just published an online
review of the book. Her only caveat was that ‘it is kind of long.”
Just for fun, I asked Gretchen to read Viola’s review. Here’s what she had
to say:
‘Just couldn’t have said it better myself!! And, wish I had! Seriously,
it’s such a pleasure to know why I didn’t like this book! She is gifted
is her knowledge and approach. That’s the biggest problem here. Most
readers (like myself) don’t have the knowledge of history, or of
Christian history to know what’s true and what isn’t. Therefore, in my
opinion, this makes books of this sort very dangerous. While I was
reading the book, I thought to myself that Mr. Brown was a very clever
writer because factual and fictional lines are blurred so
completely and smoothly. But, on second thought, Mr. Brown simply takes
advantage of the general public’s ignorance of history and Christian
history. I particularly liked a quote on pg. 3 of Ms. Larson’s review,
re: Professor Ronald Hutton’s add-on to Mary Beards study……”intended
to ‘discredit religion in general, and Christianity in particular, in
order to assist the progress of humanity towards more perfect
rationalism.'” As far as I’m concerned, Mr. Brown also takes a slap at
sex, taking it out of the mysterious, sacred bonds of
marriage, and turning it into…….dare I say…a “whore?” As I told my
daughter, I won’t be reading any more of Mr. Brown’s books. I trust my
“gut instincts” too. Hope you print Ms. Larson’s review. I thought it
was “Right On!”
If you would like to read Viola’s review for yourself, click here [1] .
[1] http://www.naminggrace.org/id65.htm