CBC producer: Dan Brown's lies are "historical and institutional"

Peter Kavanagh, a senior producer at CBC Radio One, has written an insightful column about the Coded Craziness for The Toronto Star. He states:

The comparison between James Frey and Dan Brown isn't as odd as it might seem. Frey wrote a non-fiction work, which turned out to be in part fictional, and he was pilloried. Brown wrote a novel, claiming that everything apparently based in historical fact was true, which turned out to be a lie, and became rich and famous. And it says something about our slippery grasp of the idea of truth that this bothers very few of us. Frey's lies were personal; Dan Brown's are historical and institutional.

"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will come to believe it." Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's minister of propaganda. Too extreme a comparison? Of course! But we are left wondering about the attraction of Dan Brown's tale. The "fiction" at the core of the story is the most post-modern of lies: the lack of evidence supporting it is proof of the conspiracy and denials on the part of the Vatican and other Christian leaders is evidence of the continuing cover-up.

It is by no means original; it weaves together a host of myths, legends, suppositions and heresies and packages them in a potboiler of a story of which the most complimentary thing critics can say is that it is a perfect airport book.

The only truly original thing that can be said of the novel is that it somehow proved to be the right book at the right time, or if you are the Archbishop of Canterbury, the wrong book at the wrong time.There's an element of the Christian community, which argues that Christianity is the only religion at which it is still permissible to hurl slander, innuendo and lies. And when you think of the collective glee and profit that corporations, businesses, media outlets and millions of ordinary people indulge in through contemplation of the Code, it's understandable why some Christians believe their faith is under siege.

It is impossible to imagine a comparable collective rubbing of the hands if the heart of a novel alleging a conspiracy of such magnitude were Buddhism, Judaism, Islam or Hinduism.  Fans of the Code will argue that it's just a novel, a little bit of fun and speculation. But even that is an extension of the lie, a dissimilitude about the ping of recognition that reading the novel sparked, "I knew there was something wonky about the story of Christ from the very beginning."

Comments

[Seven Star Hand]

Remember, "I come as a thief..."

Hello Carl,

There's a bit more to the story of the Vatican's reaction than most people are aware of yet. Read my missive below to understand what they are truly afraid of. It's not the DaVinci Code per se, but the fact that people have been motivated to seek out the unequivocal truth about an age of deception, exactly when they expect me to appear...

It is quite a joke that the Vatican and Catholic Church have the gall to accuse the author of a novel of attacking their fantasies and dogma. Remember that this is the same organization that manufactured fake relics and miracles for many centuries. This is the same group that massacred and tortured people for having a mind of their own. This is the same group of deluded deceivers that makes more noise about a fictional book and movie than about child raping priests, aids, famine, or even the Holocaust! Here's more about my take on it.

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The Vatican is proving that seeking the truth is a real threat to their dogma. They're so afraid of people uncovering the truth, that they are attacking other versions of fantasy (DaVinci Code) and blatantly obvious Gnostic symbolism as threats to their long-term smoke and mirrors, hocus-pocus, and mumbo-jumbo. How thoroughly enlightening, since this goes a very long way to proving that Christianity is based on strong lies and delusions. If it weren’t, they would be confident of surviving intense scrutiny. Since they aren't and since they have gone to such great lengths to suppress and oppress those seeking truth and wisdom over the centuries, their deceptions are, once again, laid bare for all to see. This time though, they are the ones to walk into a well-laid trap...

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Visit my web site to understand what they are truly afraid of. The Vatican and world leaders have struggled to keep people from understanding the truth and religion is a key tool in their smokescreen. Now, when I appear on the scene, everyone is seeking to understand their ages-old deceptions, and I have produced stunning and comprehensive proof. The time has come for the "earth to quake" and the liars to "gnaw their tongues for pain." (This is symbolism decoded in the book...)

The time has come for the Vatican and world leaders to learn the truth about Karma...

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Not only do I talk the talk, I walk the walk...

Here is Wisdom!!

[Carl Olson]

"Not only do I talk the talk, I walk the walk..."

I can only imagine how loooooooooooooong those walks are...

[MLC]

Blimey, Carl. I live in England But that Seven Star Hand bloke is beginning to spook me. I fear for your safety.

[Another Steve]

Seven S. H. said "I am not trying to make money from book sales, quite the opposite in fact."

Can we assume SSH is going to pay us for reading it????

One thing always puzzles me about such weirdos. They're always going on about rejecting the authority of Jesus Christ through His Church. But then we're supposed to sit up listen to the authority of SSH or any other half baked crank who has read something somewhere in a book - "cloaked in the majesty of print" so it must be correct. Oh for a return to an oral culture.

[Kalafan]

"Holy crap, the Catholic Church did bad stuff a few centuries ago! That means that John Paul and Benedict are right up there with Hitler and Stalin! Anyone walking into one of their Opression Temples(tm) ought to be ashamed of themselves!"

C'mon, people. The Catholic Church of today is more or less castrated. Hollywood and New York, two cities with the power to shape the nation's, indeed, the WORLD'S culture, over the course of several decades, constantly churn out family-destroying garbage through the TV and movies, and seem to have by-and-large succeeded here in America. They make inroads into Mexico and South America, CNN in Spanish for example, as Fred Reed (www.fredoneverything.net) will testify to. Now the Catholic Church, once powerful enough to send whole armies off to war, has been brought to heel, get's ridiculed as a whole for the sins of SOME of it's priests (as if that doesn't happen with the members of every concievable group on the planet), and is now being named the Master of The Great Lie BY the Masters of The Great Lie. The dualistic, hypocritical, Capitalist Marxweasles who run America's entertainment industry (as well as several others) have largely reduced religion to window dressing in Western(ized) society, replacing it with a decadent consumerism that places living in a huge, overpriced house in a hideous suburb with a dysfunctional family as humanity's central pinnacle of glory. Fred Reed explains it much better: http://www.fredoneverything.net/Heresy.shtml

[Plato's StepStarHand]

"download my FREE E-Book."

Worth every penny, I am sure.

[Dim Bulb]

I think Mr. Kavanagh is all wrong. The reason Brown got away with it and Frey didn't is this: You can lie all you want about Jesus Christ and insult Catholics till the cows come home in this secular culture of our; but you'd better not offend Oprah and her groupies,the media just wont tolerate it.