Is The Da Vinci Code Good for the Pagans?
“The Da Vinci Code” has ignited a worldwide controversy. The Vatican has denounced it, church leaders have condemned it, and audiences are flocking to see it. The book and the movie both take a sympathetic view of Paganism—or rather, a critical view of Christianity’s elimination of the female principle and roles of authority for women. (Although certainly Christianity was not the first or last religion to do so.) Dan Brown, who wrote the “Da Vinci Code” novel, implies that many of the major splits and injustices of our world could be healed by restoring the Sacred Feminine to Christianity, and by acknowledging that Jesus was mortal, had children with Mary Magdalene, and intended for her to carry on as leader of the church. I am not only a Pagan, but I was born, raised, and educated as a Jew. From either perspective, I find it hard to be shocked by the basic premise of “The Da Vinci Code.” Nu? Jesus was a father? Why not? I find it much harder to believe that a professor of religious sy
