Both Uses of
perpetuate
in
The Da Vinci Code
- SO DARK THE CON OF MAN "Sophie," Langdon said, "the Priory's tradition of perpetuating goddess worship is based on a belief that powerful men in the early Christian church 'conned' the world by propagating lies that devalued the female and tipped the scales in favor of the masculine."†
Chpt 27-28 *
- The Church, in order to defend itself against the Magdalene's power, perpetuated her image as a whore and buried evidence of Christ's marriage to her, thereby defusing any potential claims that Christ had a surviving bloodline and was a mortal prophet.†
Chpt 59-60
Definition:
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(perpetuate) to cause to continue