[Corkscrewed]

his Da Vinci Code blurb was pretty funny too.

The Da Vinci Code: The Da Vinci Code opens this week and with the amount of hype and news coverage this film is getting I’m about ready to Tap Out on it too. I haven’t figured out the level of appeal of this books or the logic behind the Catholic Church raising such a stink about it. I read the book a while ago, and while I enjoyed it I didn’t think it was anywhere near the best book I’ve read, nor did I even think it was Dan Brown’s best. I thought the prequel “Angels and Demons” was much better. Da Vinci Code spent over 3 years on the NY times best sellers list and is I believe the largest selling book this side of the Bible. This is where the church comes in and things get silly in my opinion. The Catholic Church hates this book and have been bashing it since it came out, and thus I’m sure fueled the majority of the books sales. The Church doesn’t want anyone reading the book and have raised such a stink that they have pretty much guaranteed everyone will!!! They are doing the same with the movie and it makes such little sense I’m left thinking they either have a secret stake in the book and movie sales or they conform to the same logic as most current Pro-Wrestling Writers. If the Church had never said a word about the book, it likely would have topped the Best Sellers list for a few weeks or so weeks, instead of over 3 years. The best part is I think most who are bashing the book haven’t even read it, at least not carefully. As most of you should know (unless you’ve lived under a rock) The Da Vinci Code claims that Jesus married Mary Magdalen and had a child, which means the Bloodline of Christ continues. The Church is understandably upset about such claims.(they don’t exactly want to have blood relatives of God running around, although if there were perhaps Vince could book one of them to Tag with Shawn at Mania next year) If you ask me there is something in the book they should be far more upset about. The book also claims that Jesus Christ isn’t even the son of God, so in truth who cares if there is a Bloodline. In the novel there is a historic meeting referred to where in absorbing the Pagan religion it was decided to adopt the Pagan Profit Jesus as the Catholic savior. It basically claims that the Catholic Church covered up the fact that they had a meeting and agreed to adopt (for lack or a better term) Jesus as the figure head son of God, to appease the Pagan religion when they absorbed it in efforts to become the one big religion and gain power. I would think this fact (or fictitious statement) would be much more disturbing to the Church. When you have someone claiming you made up the corner stone of your religion and Jesus Christ is basically a fraud, it seems silly being upset at his statements that Jesus may have ‘got some’ and had a kid. I’m not sure what my point was, I’m sure I had one when I started out. I guess it was just that if no one had bothered to raise a stink about Dan Browns book it would likely have been read and now watched on film by a mere fraction of the people it now will be. It’s a good book but its’ success has been more driven by it’s detractors than by those who actually enjoyed it. I think I have rambled on enough for this week. I head to the UK for the 1PW tag Team tournament and should have my thoughts on that trip up shortly after I return. Lance Storm