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Originally posted by Peaches@Jun 27 2004, 01:29 PM
I think I read DVC too close to A&D. I read A&D first and really liked it and DVC was so similar to it that it really kind of had me wanting more  I read Deception Point and liked it more than DVC - probably because it was finally something a little different and he was picking on someone else besides religion  I sent it to the kid and he's almost finished with it and liked it also.
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the DC did not pic on religion. just catholicism. it was very well researched.
the organisation at the hear tof the book is very real
http://www.danbrown.com/novels/davin...e/reviews.html
and are not against the catholic chruch, just like the masons. Of course there are extreme groups with Just as the church serves as a museum of cultures it has conquered through massive funding of wars and secretive links to the crusades, and missionary functions an the resulting wars that come from a nation that doesnt want what it is being dished.
sound familiar
The Catholic church is a self admitted imperialist organization without a country. It is a source of pride for the church to have spread its message and gained so much wealth and power throughout the world. If the Muslim community was half the imperialist and half as well organization as the church, They wold be a far more fearsome and deeply insidious organization, and would probably have stable muslim governments all over the world.
The history of catholicism and specifically the church is a long and myserious one, perched on the fence between what is real and what is fable, a home to treasures of not only vast financial quantities, but of architecture, science, and art, some of which were created, some obtained through rightful means, some through the quashing of emergent thought that flew in the face of the doctrine. Any way you look at it or feel about it, it is one of the most complex structures (both psysical and societal and even philosophical)
and that, in the short run is good conversation fodder
Matt