![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
kippurbird.livejournal.com posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
kippurcritiquesbadbooksChapter twenty seven is another one of those non-chapters. Bobo and Fache discuss how Langdon could have known about the tracking device and that Sophie must be working with him. They decided to send ONE guard into the Grand Gallery to see what's happening. \~/ He's an armed guard, but still, he's only one guard. These two people have already thwarted an entire "army" of cops and they think that one guy is going to be able to corner them. Eh... but what do I know? Obviously the cops are stupid, because how else will the heroes look heroic? By perhaps outwitting someone who is actually perhaps worth out witting because they're intelligent? Personally, I'm just waiting for something to happen.
And finally we find out what those six words are. "So Dark the Con of Man". Which, to Langdon, proves that her grandfather was a part of the Priory. As this was their fundamental philosophy.
The previous statement is utter crock. Paganism was not exclusively matriarchal. Constantine didn't successfully convert the world to patriarchal Christianity by waging a campaign of propaganda that demonized the sacred feminine and he didn't obliterate the goddess from modern religion forever either. The Priory also doesn't even believe in this (or exist...). This is just Brown pushing his agenda about how the church is evil and the sacred feminine is wonderful. (Which is, of course, the entire point of the book...) \~/, \~/, \~/, \~/, \~/, \~/, \~/
... I think I just emptied a bottle there. And that was just one sentence.
Putting that aside, Sophie believes that grandpa sent her there for some reason. Meanwhile, Langdon is busy thinking about the dark con of man, which I'm currently believing is those natural penis enlargement supplements that spam my inbox. Either that or the Send us money scams in Ethiopia. He goes into a monologue \~/ about the church reeducating the Pagans and the publishing of the The Witches' Hammer which "indoctrinated the world to "the dangers of freethinking women" and instructed the clergy on how to locate, torture and destroy them." the book was never sanctioned by the church however. \~/ Long boring bit about how the Church is evil \~/ for wiping out women from important roles.
"Today's world was living proof. Women, once celebrated as an essential half of spiritual enlightenment, had been banished from the temples of the world. There were no female Orthodox rabbis, Catholic priests, nor Islamic clerics." I shall like to pause here and comment on the "female Orthodox Rabbi" part of that sentence.
First of all, there is an Orthodox woman Rabbi. She works at my University and her name is Rabbi Mimi. She has an orthodox Smicha (which is what you need to have to be a rabbi). Second off, Rabbis are basically teachers. They aren't "holy". They're there to teach people the prayers, they were created sometime after the Second Temple was destroyed as a way to keep the Jewish people together in the light that they couldn't go to the Temple and offer up their sacrifices. Instead of going to the Temple, they substituted prayers for sacrifice, and this was long before Constantine. Third, women were never allowed to be priests or even allowed up into the Temple and this was long before Christianity so there was never anyway for them to be banished. Fourth, women are not obligated to pray. They don't have to say prayers on a set schedule, they are not bound by time. They have charge of the home and in it, the man has to do what they say. The men are obligated to pray and study Torah. These two tasks are completely equal and some say that the women wield more power for they are the ones in charge of the children's upbringing (how's that for Sacred Feminine?) and education.
I think that's four? \~/, \~/, \~/, \~/ and I'm not even going to touch on the other two religions, however, I do remember that one of Mohammed's wives were very high up in the religion after he died, \~/ and that women in the early church did have positions even if they couldn't become priests and look at Mary, Jesus' mother. \~/
Moving on. Talk about repression of sexual urges \~/ and that the days of the goddess were over. Curiously, he refers to God with a capital letter but never Goddess. One would think that if the Goddess is supposed to be equal or better than God, she would rate a capital letter in the text. Just a thought.
After all of this, Sophie lets Robert know that someone is coming! GASP. It's our Security Guard. He orders Langdon onto the ground while Sophie manages to hide in the dark. Now this is an actual legitimate place to stop a chapter. The Heroes are in danger. They've been caught. There doesn't appear for away for them to get out. How are they going to get out of this situation? Now there's real tension for you. Not.. the Ethopian Penis Enlargement Scheme.
Eighteen drinks... I think I'm gonna stop here.
And finally we find out what those six words are. "So Dark the Con of Man". Which, to Langdon, proves that her grandfather was a part of the Priory. As this was their fundamental philosophy.
The Priory believes that Constantine and his male successors successfully converted the world from matriarchal paganism to patriarchal Christianity by waging a campaign of propaganda that demonized the sacred feminine, obliterating the goddess from modern religion forever.
The previous statement is utter crock. Paganism was not exclusively matriarchal. Constantine didn't successfully convert the world to patriarchal Christianity by waging a campaign of propaganda that demonized the sacred feminine and he didn't obliterate the goddess from modern religion forever either. The Priory also doesn't even believe in this (or exist...). This is just Brown pushing his agenda about how the church is evil and the sacred feminine is wonderful. (Which is, of course, the entire point of the book...) \~/, \~/, \~/, \~/, \~/, \~/, \~/
... I think I just emptied a bottle there. And that was just one sentence.
Putting that aside, Sophie believes that grandpa sent her there for some reason. Meanwhile, Langdon is busy thinking about the dark con of man, which I'm currently believing is those natural penis enlargement supplements that spam my inbox. Either that or the Send us money scams in Ethiopia. He goes into a monologue \~/ about the church reeducating the Pagans and the publishing of the The Witches' Hammer which "indoctrinated the world to "the dangers of freethinking women" and instructed the clergy on how to locate, torture and destroy them." the book was never sanctioned by the church however. \~/ Long boring bit about how the Church is evil \~/ for wiping out women from important roles.
"Today's world was living proof. Women, once celebrated as an essential half of spiritual enlightenment, had been banished from the temples of the world. There were no female Orthodox rabbis, Catholic priests, nor Islamic clerics." I shall like to pause here and comment on the "female Orthodox Rabbi" part of that sentence.
First of all, there is an Orthodox woman Rabbi. She works at my University and her name is Rabbi Mimi. She has an orthodox Smicha (which is what you need to have to be a rabbi). Second off, Rabbis are basically teachers. They aren't "holy". They're there to teach people the prayers, they were created sometime after the Second Temple was destroyed as a way to keep the Jewish people together in the light that they couldn't go to the Temple and offer up their sacrifices. Instead of going to the Temple, they substituted prayers for sacrifice, and this was long before Constantine. Third, women were never allowed to be priests or even allowed up into the Temple and this was long before Christianity so there was never anyway for them to be banished. Fourth, women are not obligated to pray. They don't have to say prayers on a set schedule, they are not bound by time. They have charge of the home and in it, the man has to do what they say. The men are obligated to pray and study Torah. These two tasks are completely equal and some say that the women wield more power for they are the ones in charge of the children's upbringing (how's that for Sacred Feminine?) and education.
I think that's four? \~/, \~/, \~/, \~/ and I'm not even going to touch on the other two religions, however, I do remember that one of Mohammed's wives were very high up in the religion after he died, \~/ and that women in the early church did have positions even if they couldn't become priests and look at Mary, Jesus' mother. \~/
Moving on. Talk about repression of sexual urges \~/ and that the days of the goddess were over. Curiously, he refers to God with a capital letter but never Goddess. One would think that if the Goddess is supposed to be equal or better than God, she would rate a capital letter in the text. Just a thought.
After all of this, Sophie lets Robert know that someone is coming! GASP. It's our Security Guard. He orders Langdon onto the ground while Sophie manages to hide in the dark. Now this is an actual legitimate place to stop a chapter. The Heroes are in danger. They've been caught. There doesn't appear for away for them to get out. How are they going to get out of this situation? Now there's real tension for you. Not.. the Ethopian Penis Enlargement Scheme.
Eighteen drinks... I think I'm gonna stop here.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}