Don't do us any favors

There's a story on the Today show about the issue we've been
discussing, the historical accuracy of the DaVinci Code. One
"historical scholar" asserted the absolute, literal historical
authority of the New Testament, and the other commentators (one was a
Catholic priest) were basically trying to undercut the historicity of
the DaVinci code on the basis of Scriptural authority.

It is worth noting that they thereby asserted, per accidens, that any
non-Christian account of history is false. So much for historical
objectivity. Oh, I forgot - objectivity doesn't exist. My religion
teachers - at a Xaverian high school - were more sophisticated critics
of the New Testament than that.

To top it all off, Matt Lauer, the reigning Genius of American popular
culture, asked the priest commentator why readers should believe the
Church's assertions that the DaVinci Code's conspiracy theories were
false when the Church had in fact engaged in a conspiracy theory to
cover up child molestation cases. What that has to do with the price of
figs in Jerusalem I don't know.


PTR