I just bought
The Da Vinci Code today...well, it is a pretty interesting bk...u may not like it if u r a catholic/christian...coz this book is about how the roman catholics tried to erradicate this grp of pple tt prays to Nature...Below are somethings from the bk:
Venus: it is represented by the pentacle (five-pt star)...it is the goddess of female sexual love and beauty..
"...the pentacle's most astonishing property...planet Venus traced a
perfect pentacle across the ecliptic sky every eight years..."
"As a tribute to the magic of Venus, the Greeks used her eight-year cycle to organise their Olympic games. Nowadays, few pple realised that the four-year schedule of moder Olympics still followed the half-cycles of Venus. Even fewer pple knew that the 5-pointed star had almost become the official Olympics seal but was modified at the last moment-its 5 points exchanged for 5 intersecting rings to better reflect the games' spirit of inclusion and harmony."
Well, if u still don't know wat is a pentacle, it is actually the star more associated with Satan. In the pass it was a symbol for Nature worship...
BUT...
"As part of the Vatican's campaign to eradicate pagan religions and convert the masses to Christianity, the Church launched a smear campaign against the pagan gods and goddesses, recasting their divine symbols as evil."
"In the battle between the pagan symbols and Christian symbols, the pagans lost;
Poseidon's trident become the
devil's pitchfork, the
wise crone's pointed hat become the symbol of a
witch, and
Venus's pentacle became a
sign of the devil."
This is only the part on Venus..there are still things about Da Vinci and lots more...still reading...
Actually I have heard before tt in the past pple used to worship Nature..and tt in order to be the majority, the Catholics came up with ways to say worshipping Nature is bad...come to think about it, there is nothing wrong with it (n makes perfect sense), as we come from Nature..Then I tot abt the possibility tt God could only be a fictional character tt the Catholics came up with...
Well, I remain skeptical about wat the bk says...some things are just too coincidental...(but like wat the author says...there are no such things as coincident, they are all linked by some hidden/mysterious links)...
To all the Christians/Catholics out there, as long as u hold on to ur faith, it doesn't matter wat other pple say...I still believe in Him...