A Harry Potter book (any one of them, pick one) is a more enjoyable read including having a far more credible story line. Admittedly The Da Vinci Clod did influence my religious outlook. After finishing it I spent several days being upset with God for not giving me a sign (eg, causing the book to burn to ashes?) early on that I was going to end up feeling I had wasted a lot of time reading a seriously overrated crappy book.
Anybody who takes it seriously is seriously stoopid.
America is based on a disdain for monarchy. We believe that all men are created equal, not that those of a royal bloodline should rule over us.
Sometimes I wonder whether Americans believe this. The popularity of the Lady Di wedding almost sickened me.
It seems few want to be reponsible for ruling themselves and would much prefer ruling over others.
When will people wake up from their servitude, take responsibility, and realize that virtually all political ideologies are pathways to power for ideologists who promote them?
Individual freedom and limited government, period.
(Spoiler Alert!)
I enjoyed the book for the symbiology stuff & its relationship to Western civ.
The rest, though, seemed supremely hokey. Since I'm not Christian, I wasn't really offended, though I can understand why Christians would be. (Had the subject been Islam, Hollywood would have never touched it.)
The part about that French girl being a descendent had me rolling my eyes in disgust, if not rolling on the floor laughing. It smacked of PC more than blasphemy.
Brown's book ANGELS AND DEMONS was almost as ludicrous.