From: Cecil Pinto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
This FAQ is from the author's own website:
http://www.danbrown.com/novels/davinci_code/faqs.html HOW MUCH OF THIS NOVEL IS TRUE? The Da Vinci Code is a novel and therefore a work of fiction...etc
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Dear Cecil Pinto and [EMAIL PROTECTED],
There is a normal font size disclaimer in the book - AS one opens it.....that "all characters and events in this book are fictitious etc"
However - as the author's own website (and the reviews it carries) reveal, this is NOT true. Dan Brown has cleverly mixed some Fact with a lot of Fiction.
This is what politicians and scandal sheets do. They mix part fact with fiction, and leave it there for the gullible to believe, and yet be protected from liability. Mario surely has seen this technique being used in the book "What Me Discovered".
That is also what Film makers do.
NO intelligent individual should be swayed by false "information". Certainly NO practising Catholic's faith should be swayed by it. After all, well read Catholics KNOW that much wrong has been perpetrated in the name of ALL religions - i.e. Christianity, Hinduism, Islam etc.
That does not make Christianity, Hinduism, Islam etc bad religions; only the people who misuse them.
I am quite amused but not surprised that ostensibly Intelligent Catholics would come up with nonsense like BAN this film etc.
It would have been an altogether different matter IF this film/book was presented as HISTORY and enforced upon the schools and universities.
That, I submit, would have crossed the line like a certain Hindi VideoCD made IN Goa BY the Goa saffronistas & paid for BY Goa - but possibly for Gujerat and MP.
just my view
jc
ps: quite intrigued with Mario's view on "how the checks and balances are supposed to work in a free society"
According to Mario, "It is entirely appropriate for the Church or its members to have the right to freely criticize or praise these books and movies, write articles and books of criticism, make speeches, etc. WITHOUT being criticized for doing so"
Bravo Mario! for that Gem
The "balance" in the above statement from you is similar to the "balance" in the Mapuca market. Watch the tilt.(;-)
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