All 8 Uses of
heresy
in
The Da Vinci Code
- The medieval Italian card game was so replete with hidden heretical symbolism that Langdon had dedicated an entire chapter in his new manuscript to the Tarot.†
Chpt 19-20
- Midwives also were killed for their heretical practice of using medical knowledge to ease the pain of childbirth—a suffering, the Church claimed, that was God's rightful punishment for Eve's partaking of the Apple of Knowledge, thus giving birth to the idea of Original Sin.†
Chpt 27-28
- Clement's letter claimed that God had visited him in a vision and warned him that the Knights Templar were heretics guilty of devil worship, homosexuality, defiling the cross, sodomy, and other blasphemous behavior.†
Chpt 37-38
- On that day, countless Knights were captured, tortured mercilessly, and finally burned at the stake as heretics.†
Chpt 37-38
- Anyone who chose the forbidden gospels over Constantine's version was deemed a heretic.
Chpt 55-56 *heretic = someone with unacceptable beliefs
- The word heretic derives from that moment in history.†
Chpt 55-56
- Those who 'chose' the original history of Christ were the world's first heretics.†
Chpt 55-56
- "Leigh," Langdon said, turning, "during the Inquisition, the Church accused the Knights Templar of all kinds of heresies, right?"†
Chpt 75-76
Definition:
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(heresy) opinions or actions most people consider immoral