Opus Dei’s Letter to Sony
April 14th, 2006
In a recent Open Letter to Sony, Opus Dei sends out an informational notice about the upcoming Da Vinci Code film pointing out that the line between fiction and fact in the novel is difficult to distinguish:
As you already probably know, there are some aspects of The Da Vinci Code novel that distort the figure of Jesus Christ, and which affect the religious beliefs of Christians. Moreover, in the book it is said that the Christian Faith is founded on a lie, and that the Catholic Church has over the centuries employed criminal and violent means to keep people in ignorance. The novel mixes together fact and fiction, and in the end one does not know where the boundaries lie between truth and invention. A reader without much knowledge of history may reach false conclusions, and might even feel less sympathetically inclined towards the Church, which nonetheless is worthy of respect.
Opus Dei is just one of the featured links in the new Da Vinci Code Companion VitalBook, which is coming soon from the folks at Good Things Publishing. If you’d like to review a demo copy of the digital book (now available in VitalSource Bookshelf format), let us know!.
