Is there a virtually unbiased site about the Da Vinci Code/Angels and Demons?

Question

I love both, but Dan Brown is so good at interweaving fact with fiction that I don't know how to separate it sometimes. All the websties I've heard of are either biased towards Brown (such as his own website, obviously) or completely against him (all the religious ones). I want to know what details are real without having to look up every d**n word in the books. Is antimatter really that awesome? Is there really a hidden meaning in the last supper? Do La Diagramma/the Illuminati Diamond exist? etc...

Does anyone know of a website that doesn't try to twist the facts? I realize human error makes this difficult (believe me, as an aspiring journalist, I know) but maybe one that's run by more than one person?

Please don't write the Bible or something like that, I'm not really talking about the Big Controversy of the Da Vinci Code, and I gravely doubt any site can offer unfallible evidence one way or the other. Please don't be disrespectful in your answer, I'm not being so in my question.

Answer 1

IM GOING TO TELL THE TRUTH SO:

no there isnt!!!!

Answer 2

Personally, i found his website pretty informative. It didn't seem too biased. The Illuminati did once exist, but they're most likey gone now. And La Diagramma does exist. You can try googling each thing, and see what you get, but im not sure there is an unbiased website that just explains the facts.  

Answer 3

For the truth about the issues in The da Vinci Code, do a Google search on each of the following terms:

Rennes-le-Chateau

Pierre Plantard

Merovingians

Bernard Sauniere

Rosslyn Chapel

Templars

The da Vinci Code was based on the book Holy Blood, Holy Grail by Richard Leigh, Henry Lincoln, and Michael Baigent.  Their premise is that Jesus and Mary Magdalen were married and she escaped to southwestern France after the Crucifixion, either with their daughter Sarah or while still pregnant with Sarah (some name her as Tamar).  Supposedly, the Merovingian kings of France were descended from this daughter of Jesus and Mary.  Some time later, the Priory of Sion was founded to guard the secret of the Holy Bloodline, or Sang Raal.  The descendents were watched and protected and documents were drawn up to document the lineage.

In the 1890s, a parish priest in Rennes-le-Chateaux, France, supposedly began digging for treasure.  He found documents claiming that Jesus and Mary had descendents.  When he took these documents to the Catholic Church, they paid him to keep him quiet and he became exceedingly rich, especially for a priest from a small parish.  

The two stories overlapped when Frenchman Pierre Plantard heard the stories of treasure at Rennes-le-Chateaux and the rich priest.  He created ("forged" is a more accurate word) documents that supposedly showed the Priory of Sion was still in existence and had never been shut down.  It was Plantard who forged a list of "Grand Masters" of the PoS throughout history, and therefore it was only his story that said there were clues in paintings

Before he died, Plantard was taken to court and had to swear, under oath, the truth about the forged documents that had been left in the French National archives.  By that time, though, Holy Blood, Holy Grail had become a big seller.  The publishers wouldn't take it off the market, and the authors declined to write an addendum for future books that explained how their source had finally come clean about the Priory and how it was all a hoax created by one man.

There are MANY sites, secular and religious, that debunk Holy Blood, Holy Grail and the da Vinci Code; I know I have at least 150 sites bookmarked.  Very little of Dan Brown's "history" was true, and the true events that he did present were not presented accurately.

Don't read Dan Brown for history.  Understand that he is distorting history in order to make an interesting fictional tale, and enjoy his books for the fiction they are.  Reading the web sites that discuss his "facts", whether pro or con - will take weeks and you will still have to go back to a great number of source documents FOR YOURSELF to decide which side of the argument has the clearer, more logical support.

And besides - if someone stepped out onto the world stage today and said, "I am a direct descendant of Jesus Christ and his wife, Mary Magdalene" - how is he going to prove it?  There are no birth, death, or marriage records from that time.  We have no verified burial place of Mary or of anyone related by blood to Jesus or Mary, so we can't even do DNA analysis to verify or disprove such a claim.  

The Illuminati were a group that existed in the 18th century.  Some people claim they went underground and still exist today, and the modern Priory of Sion is just one of their many fronts.  Many people who talk about the Illuminati say they can trace ties between this group and 13 families around the world (Rockefellers, Rothschilds, and Kennedys being 3 of those families) who are trying to manipulate human history to form a one-world government.  There are plenty of pro and con web sites about that, too.

I personally think Dan Brown found a couple of interesting ideas and turned them into fiction, no more and no less.