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Foolish feelings
01:00 AM EDT on Wednesday, May 24, 2006
Dawn Cousineau, one of the Catholic faithful protesting The Da Vinci Code, was quoted in a May 19 news story ("Da Vinci Code draws small protest") as saying that the movie is "a Christ-bashing film."
At the heart of the book and the movie is the hypothesis that Jesus fathered a daughter with his wife, Mary Magdalene. The book and movie are entertaining fiction, hardly substantial enough to challenge someone serious about his or her Christian faith.
But I'm wondering which is more offensive to Ms. Cousineau's belief system: marriage or parenthood?
VANCE G. MORGAN
Providence
The writer is chair of the department of philosophy at Providence College.
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