I read about this awhile ago and forgot to mention it. If you want material to debunk the DaVinci Code movie and don't want to spend the money on books (my husband has three), then you can go to the site that Sony is sponsoring to debunk their own movie. Maybe they think they can keep the Christians from starting boycotting and letter writing campaigns by doing this (You want to protest? Do it here on the nice website we provided for you). Hugh Hewitt says that he is going to post an article. Since the movie is coming out this summer it would be a good idea to prepare ourselves to debunk the claims made in the movie. You know that people are just going to add this to their hodge podge knowledge of Jesus and accept it as fact with absolutely no discernment.
In related news the author of the book, Dan Brown is being sued in England because it was too close in plot to the "non-fiction" book Holy Blood and Holy Grail.
Historians Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh, who co-wrote the book with Henry Lincoln, claim that Brown plagiarised 'the whole jigsaw puzzle' of their decade's worth of research - that Jesus married Mary Magdalene and had a child, founding a bloodline that was protected by the Knights Templar. My husband told me that the stories were really close and that you could tell Brown based most of his book on their book. But aren't historical events open to fictional interpretation? If they believe that what they published really happened then why not fictionalize it? How would that be plagiarism?
