Teaching the Da Vinci Code In The Public Schools
The Winter & Spring 2006 Community Education Catalog of the Eden Prairie Schools (that's public schools, folks; you know, your tax dollars at work) is out. Ready for the very first course offering?
"Da Vinci Code Historical Seminar"
"Did you find the historical events in the 2003 fictional best-seller interesting but too fantastic to believe? Actually, most of the background items cited in the book were tied to events purportedly recorded in history."
"Purportedly recorded"? What on earth could that possibly mean?
But I digress. Take it from me, the rest of the description reads no more clearly.
One thing is clear, though: the purpose of this course, offered by a public institution, is to persuade us to take the anti-Catholic fantasies of Dan Brown's book seriously.
Any doubts about that are erased by the assertion, "The Priory of Sion actually existed since 1099, and Opus Dei frightfully exists right here in the USA, today!"
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"Da Vinci Code Historical Seminar"
"Did you find the historical events in the 2003 fictional best-seller interesting but too fantastic to believe? Actually, most of the background items cited in the book were tied to events purportedly recorded in history."
"Purportedly recorded"? What on earth could that possibly mean?
But I digress. Take it from me, the rest of the description reads no more clearly.
One thing is clear, though: the purpose of this course, offered by a public institution, is to persuade us to take the anti-Catholic fantasies of Dan Brown's book seriously.
Any doubts about that are erased by the assertion, "The Priory of Sion actually existed since 1099, and Opus Dei frightfully exists right here in the USA, today!"
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Me too...
ReplyDeleteI'm going to have to start checking your blog. (We Minnesota bloggers gotta stick together.)
I found you through Ann Coulter, too. Keep up the good work! Dan Brown's book is bad enough, but now even more people will join in the absurdity since they've made a movie out of it.
ReplyDeleteMs. Coulter has led several of us to your site, including me.
ReplyDeleteLove the reading. From mid-MO, fight the good fight for us "frightful" Catholics. ROAR!
~ john (aka "nino noir")
Got here from Ann Coulter, too.
ReplyDeletePersonally, I don't have a problem with Da Vinci Code. I thought it was fun, exciting, thrilling.
Let people believe what they want to believe about Catholicism. It's not going to keep me from practicing my faith.
I came here via The Anchoress. Great title for a blog--great blog!
ReplyDeletePersonally, I read "The DaVinci Code" and wondered why a red-headed pregnant Jewess (were there naturally red-headed Semitic people during that time?) would choose to hide out in the most primitive part of the Roman Empire. I would have gone to Rome itself, the better to hide in a crowd.
Back home in Ireland people don't like your page. Probably due to the fact, you're not really Irish. You're just like all the other wanna-be Irish Americans.
ReplyDeleteAs well as that, if you research the Priory os Scion, it did exist (in relation to one of your articles on this elsewhere), although it didn't last very long, and not just as a French piss-take. Where do you think they got the name from?
Yours,
one of the many Irish people that laugh at you. (Ps, I like the whole Desperate Irish housewife, you seem to do nothing but write blogs). Depraved.
Ps, I find it disgraceful that you delete comments just because people correct or diagree with you.
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