Is Christianity the worst thing that ever happened to women?
For Women’s History Month, let’s revisit “The Da Vinci Code” and the myth of the Sacred Feminine.
March is Women’s History Month. In honor of women’s history, I re-read The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown. The 2003 novel, which became a runaway bestseller, tells the story of how the Catholic Church is actively engaged in a two-thousand-year-old conspiracy to undermine the “Sacred Feminine” — whatever that means — and suppress the true identity of Mary Magdalene as Jesus’ wife and chosen leader of the Church. According to the novel, the real story of Mary Magdalene is protected by a secret society called the Priory of Sion. The Priory of Sion plans to release the truth about Mary Magdalene in the future, allowing humanity to break free from the chains of religion and live in gender-neutral harmony.
The Da Vinci Code is fiction, of course. But Brown always stressed that the historical evidence he presented in the book is very real — until historians called him on his verifiable inaccuracies. The controversy surrounding the book left many people confused: which parts were true and which were made-up? Is the Catholic Church really the most powerful institution on earth working to block women’s progress? Would we all be better off worshipping the “Sacred Feminine”?
