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Just finished reading The Da Vinci Code, probably the first full length book I’ve read this year. I broke down after hearing everyone talk about it and it being a best seller for some odd number of weeks.

I was at first excited by the opening, but it got tiring after following the numerous twists and turns of a very elaborate treasure hunt that in the end disappointed me. I’m not sure exactly what the prize was at the end of the rainbow, but maybe that’s something one needs to figure out for themselves.

What I did find extremely interesting was the history of all the biblical references and the reasons given why some things were the way they were in view of church lore and the world around us. I guess winners write the history books, but the history of the losers (aka the pagan religions) is interesting in that Christianity stole quite a bit of it’s icons and symbols from the pagan religions.

I always wondered if the Dead Sea Scrolls coroborated the Bible and it seems they do for certain parts of it, but not all.

I guess nothing is 100% truth in this world, but it’s interesting to see the chinks in the armor of the most revered things from time to time.

I also can’t wait to see the movie coming out next year(???) with Tom Hanks as Langdon. It should prove interesting.