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You do appear to be a bit obsessed with the end of the feeding cycle, especially considering an earlier post of yours.

I can certainly understand fundamentalists, especially those unsure of the roots of their faith condemning the book on its substance, but the writing is far above average, and I am an avid reader of mysteries and thrillers. I'm not sure what your standard is, nor whether you have actually read the book, but the money I spent was well worth it. Brown has taken some controversial historical references, some facts, and built a brilliant fast moving thriller.

Perhaps you and your Catholic friend also found State of Fear also a piece of crap. Funny that none of the Catholics/Christians on this site condemned that book. After all, it does exactly the same thing, only with the environmental movement.

A lot of people will not give deep enough into the errors of The Da Vinci Code book/movie. It may taint their beliefs because they were founded on rocky soil.

But just as the Da Vinci Code can taint people's belief by misinformation (book and movie), I can use what it uses to taint that BROWN book...

Why not have fun with a novel that has significant historic inaccuracies and therefore puts errors into people's minds.

Maybe it really is nothing more than a cow pie to those who are well educated...

Another way to look at your perspective, why not write up a bunch of lies about Mother Teresa of Calcutta - that she was involved in sex, and never really helped anyone - and promote this idea so people will get into sex and drugs and destroy their lives.

The Da Vinci Code does about the same - it assumes everybody wants to be sexually active for only pleasure's sake, and that no one in history could have done good deeds...

So why not create a website - GET AIDS TODAY -- HAVE AS MUCH SEX AND DRUGS AS YOU WANT...

That appears to be the moral heading of the book and movie -- that great people in history really were not great...

But there is a fact that no one can dismiss -- the Twelve men went off and formed a religion that today has eclipsed almost all other accomplishments. It was the Christian Church that has given us a correct Calendar and designated where time begins (the birth of Christ).

One of those Twelve is proven to have established the Christian Church in India -- 2000 years ago, and 6 of those churches that were established 2000 years ago still exist today.

That was by the apostle who doubted that Jesus rose from the dead until he put his hands into his wounds...

Unfortunately for Dan Brown, Ron Howard, and Tom Hanks, works such as those that brought about the Saint Thomas Christians are not fiction but fact. Those Christians in Southern India did have help 5 centures later when a Bishop Mar Thomas was sent to them. Then it was another 1100 years before the Portugese came to India (and English)...

So the Saint Thomas Christians existence seems to contradict the movie and book just by themselves.

If one gets into the tradition of the life of Saint John the Evangelist, one would find even more reason to doubt a pile of Dan Brown writings (those BROWN writings).

To me, cr@p is cr@p... Time to get off the cr@pper...