The DaVinci Myth vs. The Gospel Truth - Online Christian Library

WHY THE DA VINCI CODE IS SO POPULAR
laude) at Columbia Theological Seminary (where former
Senate Chaplain Peter Marshall went), an M.Th. (summa
cum laude) at Chicago Graduate School of Theology, and
a Ph.D. at New York University in world religion, and
nowhere is there evidence that Jesus was not celibate or
that He was “a party animal.” It seems that nowadays
some theological circles seem to play a game of “Can
you top this?”
In early 2006, rapper Kanye West mocked Jesus on
the cover of Rolling Stone Magazine. This took place at
about the same time that Muslims were rioting in the
streets of the Middle East and Europe in protest of a
series of anti-Mohammed cartoons published initially in
a Danish newspaper. There were no riots outside the
offices of the Rolling Stone. Christians know that Jesus
will be the one who ultimately fights His own battles.
Whenever Christians have used force to promote a supposedly
Christian ideal, it has only brought reproach
and shame on the Lord. This was true of the Crusades,
the Spanish Inquisition, the Salem Witchcraft trials.
In 2006, NBC mocked Jesus Christ and Christians in
a sacrilegious program airing on Friday nights. The Book
of Daniel featured a pill-popping Episcopal priest with a
dysfunctional family that was sexually promiscuous.
Radio host Adam McManus described the show as
“Desperate Housewives with a Clerical Collar.” 84 To top
things off, “Jesus” appeared to the priest; only this Jesus
was made in the priest’s image and not vice versa. He was
more of a 1960s hip Jesus with a “do what you please as
long as you don’t hurt anybody” attitude. Thankfully, the
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