[RexBeach]

I’ve spoken with people, mostly liberals btw, who thought “The DaVinci Code” was real.

My God, it says right on the cover that it’s a NOVEL.

I read other book and found it very entertaining, but it is dazzling inaccurate(done, obviously, to enhance the plot).

But it is easy to understand how such a book and a movie can generate so much interest in America - as we turn more and more secular, and make up religion as we go along.

What a shame that many of us believe that we can figure out God. It is one of the great canards of our day.

[rhema]

Dan Brown appeals to the do-it-yourselfers who never tire of reading fantasy-filled fiction in the tendentions How to Make Your Very Own Jesus genre.

[Sans-Culotte]

I’ve spoken with people, mostly liberals btw, who thought “The DaVinci Code” was real.

My God, it says right on the cover that it’s a NOVEL.

Even though those libs were idiots, Brown fueled that fire by insisting the certain things were "facts" at the start of the novel (but those facts were really hoaxes and BS).

I remember reading a Robert Ludlum novel in the 70s called The Gemini Contenders. Like, The Da Vinci Code, it involved a secret, that, if revealed, "would shake the foundations of Christianity". The book was a bestseller, like all Ludlum's novels. But it was not a monster hit like Brown's. Ludlum never went on TV claiming that his background info was "real". He just used some "secret documents" as a plot device.

I don't mind people idiots believing in brown's BS as long as they are not members of any serious Bible believing church.