Da Vinci

Games, books and documentaries all attempting to shed more light on the work of the artist, inventor and scientist of the Renaissance, Leonardo DaVinci, have become quite popular in recent years. There is much interest in DaVinci not only as a artist who captured his world in paint but also as a dreamer and an inventor. Modern man is intrigued by his intuitive imagination as well as his art.

The DaVinci Code, by Dan Brown, took the world by a whirlwind when his book titled the DaVinci Code hit the bookstores. Not only was it about the work of Leonardo DaVinci, it was also about Jesus, and it laid a foundation for mystery, intrigue and revelation that few could resist. With an estimated 36 million copies printed it soon became acclaimed as being one of the best-selling books of all times and even made into a movie.

Brown’s tale was so well marketed to the American public that DaVinci and the secret code within his paintings (as now revealed to the world by Dan Brown and associates,) quickly became the celebrated subject in newspapers, coffee shops, bookstores and even churches. Whether people were talking positively or negatively about it, people everywhere were talking. You might even say that , “DaVinci Code” became a household word.

The book had a reputation for being an extremely thrilling, brilliantly written mystery novel, but most of the waves across America came because through the book Brown suggested some extremely controversial understandings of the person of Jesus Christ. Brown, who asserts on his website that he himself is Christian, obviously does not understand that if he is a Christian, he is a Christian of the most unusual kind.

Normally, a Christian is compelled to help others believe in the divinity and sinlessness of Jesus. Instead Brown confuses his readers and stirs up controversy. When asked about this he commented, “Controversy and dialogue are healthy for religion as a whole,” which may have some truth in it, more truth than the fact he claims are true that are in his book. Brown Claimed that his book was full of accurate history and facts, but the fact is; it was a fiction book and it was full of fiction.

Admitting that his book the DaVinci Code, contains contradictions to what has been ”taught in school” as historical fact, Brons said at his website, danbrown.com, “We should first ask ourselves…. How historically accurate is history itself?” Dan believes everything people have taught and written about history is wrong, but with a fiction full of facts he thinks he will set them straight.

That’s the problem with history. People live it and tell about it, usually they tell it as it affected them and it's historical because what they say is validated by other who experience the same thing. You can fabricate history. You know, make it out to be something that it never really was, turn it into something you prefer it to be. We call that fiction, because such things never really happened. That’s the problem with fiction…it’s might have some truth in it, but on the whole it just doesn;t hold water because it simply never happened, except in someone else's mind.

DaVinci was a real person. JEsus was a real person too. The DaVinci Code... that's simply fiction.