[Miss Marple]

Dan Brown has given interviews claiming that his publishers made him label it as fiction (wink, wink). He has clearly intimated that the basic premises within the novel are true.

I don't believe in censorship or legal action, but I certainly think the church has a duty to respond to an attack.

[Lunatic Fringe]

Dan Brown has given interviews claiming that his publishers made him label it as fiction

SOURCE???

[DustyMoment]

I don't believe in censorship or legal action, but I certainly think the church has a duty to respond to an attack.

I have rarely seen so much hysteria over a work of fiction. If the Catholic Church considers this to be an attack, what is it when the press brings up all the pedophiles in the church that, to this day, they have refused to really address?

This is the biggest much ado about nothing I have seen in years and the Catholic Church is giving it credibility by even mentioning the book. If there were no truth to the story, there would be much less uproar. IOW, to quote Mr. Shakespeare again, methinks they doth protesteth too much.

Brown knows full well that his novel would not have sold as well if he had marketed it as non-fiction.

He has clearly intimated that the basic premises within the novel are true.

And they are. The art, architecture, secret socities and secret rituals, and locations are all true. Those are part and parcel of the basic premise of the novel. When you read too much into something, you see things that aren't there and, thus, the current firestorm of hysteria surrounding this novel. Trust me when I tell you that Dan Brown is laughing all the way to the bank.

[DustyMoment]

I would also add that prior to the release of the Passion of the Christ, the hysteria over that movie reached near panic crescendo. Jews, in particular, claimed that the movie would incite a whole new round of anti-semitism. Other than that stemming from the Religion of Peace, there has been none.

And, if you hadn't noticed, the movie went on to become a worlwide blockbuster. So much for hysteria.