Well if your inclined a book of FICTION as proof off something then you are an idiot. Part of it is based on fact ,just like Mobey Dick..Most of it isn't .Pleas man , stop it .You'd have to be pretty dumb to believe the story.DID YOU READ IT ?It's great fun and most mature Catholics enjoy it . None I know have had their faith shaken.
You've intrigued me, laid down the gauntlet. I have suspected that my Catholic friends who've read and looooved it were already on shaky grounds, faithwise. Our own parish has undergone many changes at the whims of some, including dissenters. I may have to - gulp - read it. It will give me some fun to argue with, at least, and laugh at.