[smhl]

you all sound as closed-minded and afraid as the Church has been for thousands of years. The difference today, is that Catholics are no longer simple, uneducated peasants who will follow blindly what Rome tells them.

The popularity of Dan Brown's book is due to the desire of today's believers to find their religion a living faith, that is able to be challenged, dynamic and alive. Not something that died, closed and froze 2000 years ago. That does NOT mean that people believe the fiction of Brown, but that they enjoy the ability to consider possibilities.

[Fintan]

I'm truly honored that you joined FR today and felt compelled to jump all over me and my innocuous reply.

I'll be looking forward to more undeserved and unsubstantiated flames in the future.