Coming back from lunch today with ‘the co-workers’, we were talking about The DaVinci Code and how Christian media has been in a media war against this book. We discussed how the pundits have stressed how worse the immorality is in these days…
I suggested that the immorality is not really worse, but just more in public view and also more emphasized. I briefly mentioned how I read Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales (what clean parts that were allowed for a high school audience) in my high school English Literature textbook and talked about such characters as the cook,parson, miller, and the friar and how their character traits described in a book written in the 14th century.
After getting home from’ the work’, I went to Project Gutenberg and downloaded the text file and re-read some of it to remember and to re-emphasize my point that the problems we face are human nature problems as a result of sin prevalent throughout the earth as a result of the Fall of Adam and Eve.
We may think that things are changing for the worse, but it appears that it is still the same but we are more sensitive to the appearance of evil. If you read the book, you will be shocked that the things we cry foul over in 2006 as if it is the newest enemy to hit the street were done by ‘well respected’ people in the late 1300’s. In fact, this book is a group of stories told by a group of pilgrims on their way from Southwark to Canterbury to visit the shrine of Saint Thomas à Becket’s at Canterbury Cathedral.
Interesting at how this appears to be either personal confession before entering what is considered to be a sacred place and/or this is the tale of people who aren’t as noble and pure as they portray themselves as being.
