The Macmillan Dictionary describes the word “controversy” as: a
disagreement, especially about a public policy or a moral issue
that a lot of people have strong feelings about. Now to think
that a book can cause a disagreement about social or moral
issues is not all that astounding. Don’t get me wrong, but the
multitude of such books has only risen with time. I know we say
we don’t need reassurance from anyone regarding our selection of
reading/writing books and our interpretation, but some books
seem to have unknowingly fueled such flurry among society based
on their content, the language used, or if there is too much of
(graphic) violence and/or sexual descriptions, traces of racism,
religious degradation or extreme political views and opinions.
Some books that I happened to come across include: The Holy
Blood and the Holy Grail A non-fictional read, by Michael
Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln, the book states that
Jesus was not divine, married and had sex with Mary Magdalene,
had children by her, a