Cracking the Da Vinci Code (Paperback)

~ Jimmy Akin (Author)

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This booklet packs a tremendous amount of accessible, reliable information in a small space. I highly recommend it! -- Carl Olson, co-author of "The Da Vinci Hoax"

Product Description

The Best-Selling Anti-Catholic Novel of All Time

That title belongs to Dan Brown's infamous book, "The Da Vinci Code." But many people don't realize it. A slick marketing campaign has portrayed the book as a fact-based thriller. Many Catholics and other Christians have bought it - and bought into its outrageous claims.

According to "The Da Vinci Code":

* Jesus is not God; he was only a man.
* Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene.
* Jesus got her pregnant, and the two had a daughter who gave rise to a prominent European bloodline.
* The Bible was put together by a pagan Roman emperor.
* There is a secret society known as the Priory of Sion that still worships Mary Magdalene as a goddess and is trying to keep the "truth" alive.
* The Catholic Church is aware of all this and has been fighting for centuries to keep it suppressed, often committing murder to do so.

All of these claims are false. Now, this booklet gives you the answers you need to expose the errors of "The Da Vinci Code." Drawing information from a multitude of sources and presenting it in a concise, easy-to-read format, "Cracking the Da Vinci Code" rips the mask off the runaway best-seller. It is must-reading for anyone who has encountered the outrageous novel.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 36 pages
• Publisher: Catholic Answers (October 2004)
• ISBN-10: 1888992654
• ISBN-13: 978-1888992656
• Product Dimensions: 7.1 x 3.9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,932,617 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect quick read, May 2, 2006

By	Thomas T. Verga (Staunton, VA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This book is intended to be a quick treatment of a very difficult subject.
Brown makes at least one error per chapter in his book and it would take a lot more space to thoroughly refute all of them.
This book does not try to do that. Instead it seeks to give a general overview of each error and provide general refutation of them.
If you want the short explanation then this is the book for you.
If you are looking for more depth then I would suggest either "The DaVinci Hoax" by Olson and Miesel, The DaVinci Deception" by Shea and Sri, as well as another by the same title by Lutzer, or "de-coding DaVinci" by Amy Wellborn.

Each of them presents an in depth study of the problems, but if you just want a quick analysis, then this is the book for you.

I would reccomend that each parish buy several copies of this and use them for a class refuting Brown, or sell them in the foyer book rack.