Oh,
no! I sinned again. I shouldn’t have bought this book . . .
Dan Brown's "Inferno": An
Anti-Catholic Manifesto for the Culture of Death
Brown drudges up old overpopulation
concerns precisely when much of the world is facing the opposite problem
“The Vatican
hates me,” Dr. Elizabeth Sinskey, Director of the World Health Organization,
says at one point in Dan Brown’s
new thriller, Inferno. “You too? I
thought I was the only one,” replies Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of
religious symbology and the main character of Brown’s novels.
“A loathing for ‘the Vatican’, i.e. for the Catholic Church, is the thread holding Dan Brown’s novels together,” charges Turin sociologist Massimo Introvigne, Director of the CESNUR (Centre for Studies on New Religions) and author of three books criticizing the American novelist’s work.
In Inferno, Introvigne explains, the key to the plot is the idea (which all the characters accept) that humanity is close to being wiped out by population growth. As another scientist explains to Langdon: “The end of our species is at the door. It will not be caused by fire and brimstone, by an apocalypse or a nuclear war … global collapse will be caused by the number of the planet’s inhabitants. Math isn’t an opinion.”
Introvigne also cites the novel’s epilogue, where Langdon reflects on the fact that “sin” exists, but isn’t the sin about which the Catholic Church speaks. Rather, it is a denial, a “global pandemic” that causes us not to think about the time bomb of global overpopulation that is ticking and that certainly will destroy mankind, distracting us and turning our attention to other less urgent problems.
“And for Dan Brown,” Introvigne goes on to say, “the Catholic Church is principally responsible for this universal ‘sin.’ It opposes mass sterilization – of which the virus spoken of in the novel is an obvious metaphor – abortion, contraception, and euthanasia.”
“A loathing for ‘the Vatican’, i.e. for the Catholic Church, is the thread holding Dan Brown’s novels together,” charges Turin sociologist Massimo Introvigne, Director of the CESNUR (Centre for Studies on New Religions) and author of three books criticizing the American novelist’s work.
In Inferno, Introvigne explains, the key to the plot is the idea (which all the characters accept) that humanity is close to being wiped out by population growth. As another scientist explains to Langdon: “The end of our species is at the door. It will not be caused by fire and brimstone, by an apocalypse or a nuclear war … global collapse will be caused by the number of the planet’s inhabitants. Math isn’t an opinion.”
Introvigne also cites the novel’s epilogue, where Langdon reflects on the fact that “sin” exists, but isn’t the sin about which the Catholic Church speaks. Rather, it is a denial, a “global pandemic” that causes us not to think about the time bomb of global overpopulation that is ticking and that certainly will destroy mankind, distracting us and turning our attention to other less urgent problems.
“And for Dan Brown,” Introvigne goes on to say, “the Catholic Church is principally responsible for this universal ‘sin.’ It opposes mass sterilization – of which the virus spoken of in the novel is an obvious metaphor – abortion, contraception, and euthanasia.”
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