[Mad Dawg]

So the Cathari come out to protest Dan Brown? A group of heretics sets themselves against an apostate? Fascinating!

(Hint: Starving yourself to death is considered a no-no by the Catholic Church.)

[edpc]

He denied the hunger strike was irresponsible.

Well....he was wrong. See that behind you? It's the line and you're waaaaayyyyyy past it.

[theDentist]

Are Mr Dias and all the others who have called for this suicidal action going to participate?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Anyone who thinks this is not just historical FICTION should just shut up about it. To do otherwise is just helping pump up the box office, which I would presume is the opposite of what they want.

The history of the Catholic Church is littered with heresies, and this is not even a new one, it's just a rehash of Gnosticism.

In the long run this will probably pique the interest of a lot of materialistic pagans in the truth about Christianity and Catholicism who never would have cared otherwise.

[katana]

So they're going to burn books and starve themselves to death over a novel based on a French forgery. I suppose 1500 years after the Church burned Cathars and Gnostics alive for similar heresies this can be counted as progress.

[montag813]

It's just a novel, and now a movie. What is wrong with these people?

[Arkinsaw]

Pop culture fiction novel and movie that next year, will be old news. Ignore it.

Christianity has survived and prospered for 2000 years and Mr. Brown's novel is not even in the top 100 of things it has faced and surpassed. Have these people no faith at all to think that this pop-fiction novel is a danger to Christianity? Stop promoting it for them. Geez.

[Aquinasfan]

About 2% of India's 1,1-billion people are Christians.

That's encouraging. I thought it was 1%.