T<\/span>he main purpose of this anti-Christian sub-plot in [The Da Vinci Code] is twofold \u2026 [Dan Brown] wants to make the case for a revival of paganism, which embraces the \u201csacred feminine\u201d and is superior to Christianity, seen as male-dominated and hierarchical.<\/p>\nNow the \u201csacred feminine\u201d is not unfamiliar to Episcopalians, many of whose ultra-feminist priests have also embraced it as part of the ECUSA new religion. The New Age movement has been incorporated into the Episcopal Church. \u201cThis is a call from the Mother Earth and the Sacred Feminine to bring the feminine principle into consciousness and create a critical mass, a tipping point\u2013the metaphoric millionth circle,\u201d wrote one Episcopal feminist. Other New Age supporters the Very Rev. James Parks Morton, formerly the Dean of the Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City, and now President of the Temple of Understanding. While at St. John the Divine, Morton said, \u201cThe language of the \u2018Sacred Earth\u2019 has got to become mainline.\u201d Morton acted on this belief by holding a St. Francis Day communion service in 1993 that invoked the gods Yemanja, Ra, Ausar, and Obatala; the celebrant was Episcopal Bishop of New York Richard Grein.<\/p>\n
The tragedy of books like The Da Vinci Code is not so much their error as their persuasiveness. Men and women are being lured into believing a lie, the ancient Gnostic lie which h the early church fought so tenaciously to suppress. Brown is offering men and women a spirituality that does not work. He is proffering sex and \u201cthe Force\u201d instead of relationship with a transcendent Lord. People are being sold a lie that will never provide the satisfaction for which they hunger and thirst.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>From the New Yorker:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n