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05/11/2006: "Much ado about "The Di Vinci Code" --- smacks of cencorship of the worst sort."

The current uproar over The Di Vinci Code signals a part of the Christian world that is frightening. While most of the ado seems to be centered outside of America it is no less frightening.

To begin with, this book has been out since 2003. Why all this now?

For another --- what happened to First Amendment Rights? While these people may disagree with the content of Dan Brown's book, Brown has every right to write it. If we can have the likes of all the porn trash that degrades women and all of the left wing and right wing publications which fill the bookstore shelves we can have a book that has Jesus marrying Mary Magadalene and had a child by her. One doesn't have to believe it. It is after all a work of fiction.

Other books have been written that question Jesus or even the existence of a god. Why all the uproar about this one?

If F. Scott Fitzgerald can write the wild story of The Great Gatsby why can't Dan Brown write this story?

Well, I have no answers. But I do not want the Christian world telling me what to read or write or how to think or in what to believe or that I must believe. I want that no more than I want the Muslim world to take over my life.

The Christian world has every right to get mad. They do not, however, have any right to dictate to others what to read or write or believe or think or do. Dan Brown has a right to write this book and we have a right to read it if we choose. We also have a right to question any believe that's held by any group. And no one has a right to abolish our rights because of their own personal likes and dislikes.

Frankly, it's easier for me to believe that a man got married and fathered a child than it is to believe that a virgin gave birth.


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