[The Iguana]

For those who want a more thorough discussion of the historical inaccuracies in The Da Vinci Code, you can find at the Envoy blog by Carl Olsen and Sandra Meisel:

Part One of a Special Planet Envoy Critique of The Da Vinci Code

The problems are too many to know where to begin.

It is a mark of the historical and religious illiteracy of our time that this book - however cleverly written - is getting any kind of serious hearing.

[Snowy]

It is a mark of the historical and religious illiteracy of our time that this book - however cleverly written - is getting any kind of serious hearing.

Are you saying that the teaching of the bible don't have flaws? That's why it's called, "faith".

[Steve_Seattle]

"It is a mark of the historical and religious illiteracy of our time that this book - however cleverly written - is getting any kind of serious hearing."

Ditto.

[JoeGar]

For those who want a more thorough discussion of the historical inaccuracies in The Da Vinci Code, you can find at the Envoy blog by Carl Olsen and Sandra Meisel: Part One of a Special Planet Envoy Critique of The Da Vinci Code

For Heaven's sake, the book is a work of fiction. Olsen and Meisel don't seem to recognize this.