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Originally Posted by spellbanisher
I didn't mean to say that Brown was trying to change religious people's minds. What I meant is that the whole idea of some vast, centuries long conspiracy to suppress information that could discredit Christianity just didn't make a very compelling storyline element to me. Since religion is based on faith, a storyline revolving around protecting or exposing some great religious secret or cover up simply didn't evoke in me any tension or suspense.
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Many people would claim, myself included, that the Bible itself is that information. It doesn't need suppression. So I would have to agree, that no proof is ever going to convince anyone. Proof requires you to accept that it is proof, before it can work. And people like to guard the sanctity of their illusions -- it's human nature.
As a religious Jew, I am rather biased perhaps, but any religious Jew will tell you that the Bible is has creatively misread the Torah in a variety of ways.
But we probably don't want to turn this into THAT thread, now do we?