I wonder if that Baptist minister would have known about the rent in the curtain had Catholic's not preserved the teachings of Christ in writing. You may feel confident that this would have occurred in any case;I doubt it.
I really didn't mean to get anyone upset about this. I just thought that Dan Brown's slant on Church history was interesting. It "fits my agenda" so to speak. I can't remember enough of my "catachism" to say for sure that it was the Catholics that preserved the teachings in the Bible. I feel, though, that you are probably right. My viewpoint is mostly about the "doctrines" that came about hundreds of years after the Word of God was written down.