while many may think of Dan Brown’s books as controversial and anti-church, i have found many lessons in his books about the Catholic faith.
noctice that at first glance, his books may always seem to depict the Catholic Church as an enemy. reading deeper into the books when the lead characters — Robert Langdon being my favorite— go in their quest for truth, the Church is always turns out to actually just be a victim in some chaotic misunderstanding.
i recommend his books only for those who have strong faith in God and the wisdom to know whether what one is reading are facts of just a figment of imagination and exaggeration as i have researched some statements to be exaggerated. he writes good books. oh, the suspense!
Carlo Ventresca: Open the doors, and tell the world the truth.
Vittoria Vetra: Religion is like language or dress. We gravitate toward the practices with which we were raised. In the end, though we are all proclaiming the same thing. That life has meaning. That we are grateful for that created us.
Vittoria Vetra: Faith is universal. Our specific methods for understanding it are arbitrary. Some of us pray to Jesus, some us go to Mecca, some of us study subatomic particles. In the end we are all just searching for truth, that which is greater than ourselves.
Robert Langdon: Science tells me God must exist. My mind tells me I will never understand God. And my heart tells me I am not meant to.
Carlo Ventresca: Religion is flawed, but only because man is flawed.
Leonardo Vetra: Science and Religion are not enemies. They are simply two different languages saying the same thing.
in addition to all that, here is what the author himself thinks:
“My sincere hope is that THE DA VINCI CODE, in addition to entertaining people, will serve as an open door through which curious souls might pass to begin their own exploration. ” — Dan Brown (http://www.ascensiongateway.com/quotes/dan-brown/index.htm)
see? now reflect and explore God’s love visible all around us. these are only some of the parts i liked in the book, by the way. there are more.
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