[RexBeach]

I'd say your assertion is correct.

I am Catholic and I had friends who said I should read the book because it would "help me question my faith." Really? I responded with this remark: "If I knew of a book that I thought would help you question the love you have for your son, would you read it?" Silence.

Yeah, I know, the book is fiction. However, there are many, many people in America who love a conspiracy - and possess no religious faith.

Nothing like a good conspiracy to keep you warm at night - when your faith does not.

See yah. -Rex

[Borges]

Conspiracy theories are mainstray of postmodern fiction (especially Thomas Pynchon) if the eternal verities are tenuous and discredited then something else much more mysterious just has to be holding the world together. One epistemology falls and another takes its place.

[Bones75]

I am Catholic and I had friends who said I should read the book because it would "help me question my faith." Really? I responded with this remark: "If I knew of a book that I thought would help you question the love you have for your son, would you read it?" Silence. "

The answer from your friend would be: W"ell, no book would do that." Likewise, your answer to the original statement made by your friend could have been the same.