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WELCOME TO THE
PASTORS FORUM
The Da Vinci Code
By Dan Brown
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Main Characters
Robert Langdon, Professor of Religious Symbology,Harvard University
Jacques Sauniere, murdered museum curator at the
Louvre, Grand Master of the Priory of Sion, swornprotectors of the Holy Grail.
Sophie Neveu, agent of the Department of Crypto-
graphy, a branch of the French state police
Sir Leigh Teabing, wealthy grail researcher, British
Royal Historian affiliated with Oxford University
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All descriptions of artwork,
architecture, documents, and secretrituals in this novel are accurate. (1)
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MISINFORMATION
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During three hundred years of witch
hunts, the Church burned at thestake an astounding five million
women. (125)
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Langdon: It was man, not God, who created
the concept of original sin, whereby Eve tastedof the apple and caused the downfall of the
human race. (238)
The orb from which Eve partook, Langdonsaid coolly, incurring the Holy wrath of God.
Original sin. (425)
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CONSTANTINE
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CONSTANTINE
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The Priorys beliefs conveyed by Langdon: . . .powerful men in the early Christian church conned
the world by propagating lies that devalued the
female and tipped the scales in favor of the mas-
culine. . . .Constantine and his male successors
successfully converted the world from a matriarchal
paganism to patriarchal Christianity by waging a
campaign of propaganda that demonized the sacred
feminine, obliterating the goddess from modern
religion forever. (124)
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CONSTANTINE
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In the battle between the pagan symbols and
Christian symbols, the pagans lost. (37)
As part of the Vaticans campaign to eradicate
pagan religions and convert the masses toChristianity, the Church launched a smear
campaign against the pagan gods and goddesses,
recasting their divine symbols as evil. (37)
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CONSTANTINE
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Teabing:
Nothing in Christianity is original . . . .Originally Christianity honored the Jewish
Sabbath of Saturday, but Constantine shifted it t
coincide with the pagans veneration day of the
sun . . . .To this day, most churchgoers attend
services on Sunday morning with no idea that
they are there on account of the pagan sun gods
weekly tributeSunday. (232-233)
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CONSTANTINE
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Teabing, regarding Nicea:At this gathering,
many aspects of Christianity were debated and
voted uponthe date of Easter, the role of the
bishops, the administration of sacraments, and, o
course, the divinity of Jesus . . . . until that mom-
ent in history, Jesus was viewed by His followers
as a mortal prophet . . .a great and powerful man
but a man nonetheless. A mortal . . . .
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CONSTANTINE
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Jesus establishment as the Son of God wasofficially proposed and voted on by the Council o
Nicaea. . . .By officially endorsing Jesus as the
Son of God, Constantine turned Jesus into a deit
who existed beyond the scope of the human worl
. . . . the early Church literally stole Jesus from
His original followers, hijacking His human
message, shrouding it in an impenetrable cloak o
divinity, and using it to expand their own power.
(233)
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CONSTANTINE
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From Teabing:
Jesus Christ was a historicalfigure of staggering influence, perhaps the most
enigmatic and inspirational leader the world has
ever seen. . . .More than eighty gospels were
considered for the New Testament, and yet only a
relative few were chosen for inclusion. . . .The
fundamental irony of Christianity! The Bible, as
we know it today, was collated by the pagan
Roman emperor Constantine the Great. (231)
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CONSTANTINE
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Teabing:
. . . any gospels that described theearthly aspects of Jesus life had to be omitted
from the Bible. (244)
Constantine commissioned and financed a newBible, which omitted those gospels that spoke of
Christs human traits and embellished those
gospels that made Him godlike. The earliergospels were outlawed, gathered up, and
burned. (234)
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CONSTANTINE
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Teabing, responding to Sophie, who thoughtConstantine was a Christian: Hardly. He was a
lifelong pagan who was baptized on his deathbed
too weak to protest. (232)
In 325 [Constantine] decided to unify Rome
under a single religion. Christianity.
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CONSTANTINE
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Sophie:Why would a pagan emperor choose
Christianity as the official religion?
Teabing: Constantine was a very good
businessman. He could see Christianity was on
the rise, and he simply backed the winning
horse. (232)
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THE GOSPELS
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GOSPELS
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From Teabing:
The Bible did not arrive by faxfrom heaven. . . . The Bible is a product of man,
my dear. Not of God. . . . it has evolved through
countless translations, additions, and revisions.
History has never had a definitive version of the
book. (231)
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GOSPELS
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Nobody is saying Christ was a fraud, or denying
that He walked the earth and inspired millions to
better lives. All we are saying is that Constantine
took advantage of Christs substantial influence
and importance. And in doing so, he shaped the
face of Christianity as we know it today. . . .
Constantine upgraded Jesus status almost four
centuries after Jesus death. (234)
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GOSPELS
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Almost everything our [church] fathers taught
us about Christ is false. (235)
Langdon considers the implications of
presenting to the world thousands of ancient
documents as scientific evidence that the New
Testament is false testimony. (341)
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GOSPELS
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Fortunately for historians, some of the gospels
that Constantine attempted to eradicate manage
to survive. The Dead Sea Scrolls were found in
the 1950s hidden in a cave near Qumran in the
Judean desert. And, of course, the Coptic Scrolls
in 1945 at Nag Hammadi. (234)
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The Da Vinci Code
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If Jesus was born around the year 1900
Jesus in Jerusalem about when the Titanic sank
Death and resurrection in 1930
First NT writings at the close of WWII
First NT Gospel around 1960Last NT Gospel around 1990
Gospel of Thomas written about 2030
Gospel of Mary written about 2050Gospel of Philip written about 2170
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SECRET SOCIETIES
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SECRET SOCIETIES
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The Knights Templar
Opus Dei
Priory of Sion
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LEONARDO DA VINCI
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LEONARDO DA VINCI
His Mona Lisa is
neither male nor
female. It carries a
subtle message ofandrogyny. (120)
[This, he claims, is
why she is smiling itwas her secret (121)]
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LEONARDO DA VINCI
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LEONARDO DA VINCI
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LEONARDO DA VINCI
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MARY MAGDALENE
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MARYMAGDALENE
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Was she a prostitute?
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MARYMAGDALENE
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Was she a prostitute?
Did the Church conspire against her?
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MARYMAGDALENE
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Teabing, that Mary Magdeline was a prostitute:That unfortunate misconception is the legacy of
a smear campaign launched by the early
Church. The Church needed to defame Mary
Magdalene in order to cover up her dangerous
secrether role as the Holy Grail. (244)
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MARYMAGDALENE
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Magdalene was recast as a whore in order toerase evidence of her powerful family ties. (249)
The Church . . . perpetuated her image as a
whore and buried evidence of Christs marriage
to her. . . . (254)
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MARYMAGDALENE
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Teabing:
Sadly, Christian philosophy decidedto embezzle the females creative power by
ignoring biological truth and making man the
Creator. Genesis tells us that Eve was created
from Adams rib. Woman became an offshoot of
man. And a sinful one at that. Genesis was the
beginning of the end for the goddess. (238)
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MARYMAGDALENE
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Was she a prostitute?
Did the Church conspire against her?
Was she Jesus wife?
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MARYMAGDALENE
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Gospel of Philip 63:33-36
And the companion of the [...] Mary Mag-
dalene. He loved Mary more than [all] the
disciples and used to kiss her [often] on the[mouth? Head? Cheek?]. The rest of [the
disciples were offended?]. They said to him,
Why do you love her more than all of
us?
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MARYMAGDALENE
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Gospel of Mary 17:10-18:21
When Mary had said this, she was silent, since
the Savior had spoken thus far with her. But
Andrew answered and said to the brethren, Saywhat you think concerning what she said. For I
do not believe that the Savior said this. For
certainly these teachings are of other ideas.
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MARYMAGDALENE
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Gospel of Mary 17:10-18:21
Peter also opposed her in regard to these matters
and asked them about the Savior. Did he then
speak secretly with a woman, in preference to us,
and not openly? Are we to turn back and all listen
to her? Did he prefer her to us?Then Mary grieved
and said to Peter, My brother Peter, what do you
think? Do you think that I thought this up myself in
my heart or that I am lying concerning the Savior?
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MARYMAGDALENE
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Gospel of John 20:17
Jesus said to [Mary], Stop clinging to Me, for I
have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to
My brethren and say to them, I ascend to MyFather and your Father, and My God and your
God.
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MARYMAGDALENE
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These are photocopies of the Nag Hammadi
and Dead Sea Scrolls, which I mentioned
earlier, Teabing said. The earliest Christian
records. (245)
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MARYMAGDALENE
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Teabing flipped through the book and pointed
out several other passages that, to Sophies
surprise, clearly suggested Magdalene and Jesus
had a romantic relationship. (246)
Teabing, referring to Philip and Magdalene:
According to these unaltered gospels . . .
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MARYMAGDALENE
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Teabing: It is not I who claim she is the Grail.
Christ Himself made that claim. (242)
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MARYMAGDALENE
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Teabing: I shant bore you with the countless
references to Jesus and Magdalenes union.
(247)
Its a matter ofhistorical record. (244)
The marriage of Jesus and Mary Magdalene is
part of the historical record. (245)
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MARYMAGDALENE
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The historical evidence supporting this is
substantial. (254)
Teabing calls it persuasive scientific evidence.
(266)
Langdon: The iconographic evidence Im
finding to support the theory is, well,
staggeringly persuasive. (163)
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A VERY TRUE NUGGET:
A career hazard of symbologists was
a tendency to extract hiddenmeanings from situations that had
none. (172)
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A FINAL THOUGHT:
Great fiction; Bad theology
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WELCOME TO THE
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Q & A
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