Comments on: Mormons in Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol

By: sesliyes

sesliyes — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 02:45:59 +0000

thnks

By: catherine

catherine — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:01:09 +0000

By the way my friends told me about Da Vinci Code but not really got what the story about.

By: catherine

catherine — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:47:39 +0000

I think Da Vinci Code and other related writings are just fictions. From the writers creative mind. I didn't read nor watch Da Vinci Code but have read about Masonic and honestly I didn't understand what the fraternity is for other than brotherhood.

By: Candice

Candice — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:50:26 +0000

This is a very entertaining thread. Thanks everyone – particularly Jeff Bennion for that hilarious plot summary.

By: Mike Bond

Mike Bond — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 01:16:13 +0000

Honestly I think Mr. brown left Mormon’s out of this book because no one knows what a Mormon is. Let me explain, having grown up on the east coast all my life and having spent time (too much according to my wife) in both Europe and Asia (well, China) most people have never even heard of a Mormon, or if they have they know that we practiced polygamy at one point and nothing else. Now look at the Masons, even in China the masons have a pretty set presence. Every one knows the masons have secrets and conspiracy nuts have been turning out myths about new world orders and secret murders. The point is no one cares about the Mormons, because no one (on a global scale) really knows anything about the Mormons. Mr. Brown would have had to spend another 100-200 pages educating the reader and on the history, believes, customs ect. Now remember, Mr. brown writes about preexisting conspiracy theories. so after doing all that research now he would have to create ( because as far as I know there are no existing theories) some new conspiracy connecting us to some ancient something. He wouldn’t use our own claims that we are a continuation of the original church because, if you haven’t noticed, he has a dislike for organized religion and snubs it any chance he gets.

So basically what I’m getting at is it was just a lot simpler to write about the masons then us. It does stink though that we don;t even get a nod for being The only religion in America that holds to the doctrine of Apotheosis (or as we call it Exaltation). and his final conclusion of the book veers so off track I had to read it a second time to make sure he hadn’t switched side on the argument.

By: larryco_

larryco_ — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 01:12:16 +0000

Tomorrow’s headline in the SL Tribune:

“Mark N. Mysteriously Disappears After Revealing Existence Of Time-Travel Devise In Salt Lake Temple”

now Dan Brown’s got something juicy to write about…

By: Mark N.

Mark N. — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 01:04:58 +0000

Ancient conspiracy? That would be a feat for a church that was founded in 1830

Maybe the Holy of Holies in the Salt Lake Temple is really a room containing a time-travel device.

By: Clark

Clark — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:51:37 +0000

It does make one wonder what he was researching in the Church archives if Mormonism is so minor.

By: Nick Literski

Nick Literski — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:21:32 +0000

Fair enough, Jettboy. For a second there, I thought you were heading off in a direction even FAIR and FARMS won’t go!

By: Jettboy

Jettboy — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:13:43 +0000

ok, that last sentence is still confusing. I don’t know how to put it really. I believe masonry was a template for creating a ritual expressing religious revelatory ideas.