I agree, but it's kinda late?
I hope he goes after that bastard behind "Simple Abundance" next!
It's a NOVEL! Next We'll have some idiot digging
around the glass pyramid in Paris looking for clues!
Two years too late.
The book is entertainment. I read it months back because a friend said that it was a good read. It is a fun read, sort of the way the Indiana Jones movie about the Tabernacle was a fun movie. Doesn't mean I believed it. I think the issue with the "Da Vinci Code" is being blown out of proportion. I can't see that making a movie of it is a big deal. But that's just my opinion.
Two things: Again the vatican is slow to respond to the culture. Another Christian Organization already has 2 books on the subject; and since this is late- it will mean another 500,000 in book sales over the controvesy.
Does the book not say on its dust jacket somewhere that it's a "historical novel" or a "novel"? What's wrong with that?
I add, though, that many of my non-Catholic friends urged me to read "The DaVinci Code" because it would help me to "question my faith." Now why would I want to do that if I adore my faith? I, in turn, posed this question: "If I urged you to read a book because it would help you question the love you have for your children, would you read it?" Honestly.
Vatican's a mite late on this, however. I'd say that horse left the barn a long time ago, and it's kinda late to try and shut the barn door.
Silly Book, Silly Premise, but a little late for the Church to say anything about it. Most people know it is fantasy because they are like children who only soak in what they are prepared to know. Most people hardly know L DaVinci, art, theology, etc... The more you know the more you think people pick up. Most people I talked to who read the book have forgotten about it. I think it is a mistake to make a big deal over it.