[Revolting cat!]

Please, please, can I be the first idiot to say: "It's fiction, people!" ?

[Steelfish]

Why don’t they try “fiction” with Mohammed?

[SuziQ]

"It's fiction, people!"

Then why wasn't he content to use a pretend Vatican?

[dangus]

Yeah, you’re an idiot, all right.

Dan Brown has insisted that the horrors he attributes to the Catholic Church are the truth, and the book is designed to get people to accept as fact the background assertions. Most people who have read the book accept as fact the majority of the most evil assertions.