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Yahoo! News - Top Cardinal Blasts 'Da Vinci Code' as 'Cheap Lies':
"You can find that book everywhere and the risk is that many people who read it believe that those fairy tales are real,'"
The above quote is truly perfect as is and I should probably leave it alone, but I'm going to sully it with some follow up questions.
"Mr. Bishop sir, the book you refer to has given enjoyment to and believed by millions of people and has a good moral message overall. So really, what is the harm?"
"Also, if you don't mind, what objective criteria do you suggest we use in order to determine what is historically accurate and what is merely, how did you put it, oh yeah, just a 'fairy tale'?"
• Here is what you don't understand:
This is an informal promulgation by a Cardinal, and Cardinals are appointed by the Pope who is elected by Cardinals. This unbroken chain of succession goes all the way back to a couple hundred years after Jesus was crucified when Irenaeus of Lyons decided that there must be one supreme and infallible Bishop to represent God on Earth. This was necessary to put down heretical beliefs similar those asserted in The Davinci Code.
So, in other words, what Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone says is pretty much the word of God.
