Jesus may be long dead, but he’s dominated global attention as few others this year. While Mel Gibson’s Passion… literary stoked the emotion, it was other, the, biggest literary phenomenon since Harry Potter, Da Vinci Code mania has caused many to look at Christianity, and by extension institutionalised religion with new eyes, and not very complimentary ones at that.
With nearly eight million copies sold legally, with probably a matching number of pirated copies, this book, which is a mixture of call for mother goddess/ nature worship liberally dosed with feminist ideology has even caused the many in the church to warn against this book.
Racy, mixed with a right dose of modern prose elements, and a premise that not only was Jesus married, but also fathered a child, whose descendants are alive – proved to be a potent mixture was one that few could resist. Add cryptography, to it and the world holds its joint breath for the film to release. Not to speak of a whole industry of books about the Bible.
- Suman Tarafdar
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