[ivyleaguebrat]

How solid can a person's faith be if it is so easily "undermined" by some guy named Dan Brown?

I'm not a Catholic and not much of a christian so maybe I don't understand.. but for that matter, why would it be so earth-shattering if Jesus did have a blood line that survived his death?

[NYer]

I'm not a Catholic and not much of a christian so maybe I don't understand.. but for that matter, why would it be so earth-shattering if Jesus did have a blood line that survived his death?

This is one of the most insidious attacks on the Catholic Church for it replaces the Body and Blood of Christ in the Eucharist with the 'body and blood' of an offspring.

[Mrs. Don-o]

The "big deal" would be that --- if Jesus left a sacred dynasty of biological descendants ---then the Gospels, and the Church which teaches on the basis of the Gospels, are all full of crap. The logical inference from the Da Vici Code is that all Christians have been believing in lies for 2000 years, and that the New Testament is worthless as a source for finding the truth about Christ.

This is an attack which says that the well-springs of Christianity are polluted, and every good and holy Christian through the ages has been "sick" from the polluted water; an attack where the bull's-eye is the Catholic Church, but the target at large is ALL OF CHRISTIANITY.

If the New Testament said that Jesus was a dad, a grandpa, and a left-handed lute-playing Lithuanian, that would be fine and dandy. But to set up fantasies, forgeries, and conspiracy theories as the new sources of "gospel truth"' is a frontal assaults on EVERYTHING we know about God.