Seeking Truth in The Davinci Code: It Isn't Dan Brown's Fault That Christians Are So Uneducated About Their Faith's Past

Ok, to be honest, I am tired of all the "da vinci hype" going on from both supporters of the film and its critics. But I came across an article today that really helped me gain some perspective.

Here is an excerpt, see what you think:

Christians aren’t stupid, not in general. Why, then, is our community so hung-up on a piece of writing that is simply inaccurate? Evangelicals typically have less contempt for the so-called Gnostic Gospels or the Apocrypha than they do for fiction that outsells the Bible.

And then I realized it.

We’re afraid of this fiction for the same reason small children are afraid of the dark. It’s the fear of the unknown. The reason that the inaccurate statements of Leigh Teabing in Da Vinci strike such a nerve amongst evangelicals is because so many believers are so poorly equipped to rebut them. Pastors know this about their flocks, and as a result, may be inclined to instruct their followers not to read the book. As the Body of Christ, we know so horrifyingly little about the history of what we believe that any information presented with authority may very well threaten to skew our understandings.

to read the whole article, go to Relevant.com