“A Sack of Lies,” he says

Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, archbishop of northern Genoa, Italy, spoke out to the world last week calling best-selling novel, The DiVinci Code, “…a sack full of lies against the Church, against the real history of Christianity and against Christ himself.”

I was intrigued by this.

Isn’t The DiVinci Code a novel? A piece of fiction?

Where am I going wrong here?

Author of The DiVinci Code, Dan Brown, answers some questions here, if you have interest.

According to Dictionary.com:

Novel means: A fictional prose narrative of considerable length, typically having a plot that is unfolded by the actions, speech, and thoughts of the characters.

Fiction means: 1). A literary work whose content is produced by the imagination and is not necessarily based on fact. 2).An imaginative creation or a pretense that does not represent actuality but has been invented.

So where does Cardinal Bertone come from calling a piece of imagination that is not necessarily based on fact a lie?????

Is anyone else scratching their head on this one?

No one ever represented this book as the truth. People have wondered if it could be true — which is a totally different thing.

I personally have not read the book, but I will say that I think is a sign of the desperate times in the catholic church. Since so many priests have been accused and convicted of sexual abuse in the past few years, I suspect the support for the catholic church has dried up dramatically, and hence money is not flowing like it used to — to support these men of the church.

Perhaps this is why Cardinal Bertone spoke out with such nonsense? Perhaps that is why he asks catholics and all christians to not buy this book? Because he fears he will loose more money?

I can only speculate.

Knowledge is power — regardless of whether the knowledge is good or bad. I have to completely disagree with Cardinal Bertone.

We were all given a mind, and he should support using it!!