I have been coughing for a week. Poor timing though.
The log cases seem to be getting more and more problematic. And I will never achieve the pulp therapy key skills. Next Wednesday will be MOS key skills and I have A Tse and Prof Cheung assessing me. Too ill and tired (due to the medicine) to study.
I finished the Da Vinci Code last week, I found the book rather the disturbing for the first few days of reading it, but not so afterwards. The book touched on the issues of the canonization of the Bible, the legend of Jesus as a husband to (Mary Magdalene) and a father to a girl named Sarah. The book claimed their descendents were the Merovingians and God has a female equal. It also unravels the mysteries in Leonardo Da Vinci's works.
My faith was a bit (just a little bit) disturbed at the beginning, but after finishing the book, I calmed down and think about everything it wrote, I was relieved. The author claimed that the descriptions of artwork, architecture, documents and secret rituals in this novel are accurate. But I have serious doubts about this claim. I am not sure about the artwork, architecture and the secret rituals, but I happened to have done a little research on the topic of canonization of the Bible myself. And I have to say the author is cleverly (probably cunningly) have twisted the facts by blending them together with the sagas. Understandable for composing a novel, but condemnable for its blasphemy.
Granted that the artwork, architecture and the secret rituals are accurately described, it only shows that Da Vinci, Isaac Newton, Victor Hugo and Botticelli are pagans and the architects of some of the churches are mischievous infidels.
The author is attempting to attack the core values of Christianity and the Church, but despite the obvious efforts he has put into it, he seems to know that his efforts are in vain. Just as the author says, even if the documents are true, the people still have to choose which side of the story they believe. In the end what does he resort to? Nothing, but to faith alone.
The Da Vinci Code could be shaking the faiths of many Christians, if they know little about the Church's history and the process of canonization of the Bible. It is easy for people, Christians and non-Christians to believe what the book tells if they do not find out the truth by themselves.
Don't read this one. Read Harry Potter if you want.
Sigh... But man is often an insolent fool, blinded by his self-conceit, heedless of warnings of the dangers of his adventure, in the end he'll never return. Such is the pride of human and the evil art of the Serpent. | 
