While I agree that the Catholic Church needs some deep cleaning, I refuse to just brush off a book and movie which try to explain how Jesus is NOT the Messiah.
I'm usually not very socially conservative at all but let's call this book what it is. I'm sick of hearing "It's just a novel." It's not, and anyone who's read it knows that. It presents itself as historically based fiction, and the history on which it's based presents Jesus as just some guy, which is an idea which destroys the foundation of Christianity.
What are you talking about? How can you say this book poses an idea that "destroys the foundation of Christianity?" How can a stupid book do that? It cannot yet you seem to be quivering in your shoes over it.
I am tired of people saying it is more than a novel. It is just a novel that unfortunately some people who cannot think for themselves have come to believe.
And as for the "Jesus is just a man" stuff you pose, well there are branches of Christianity that believe just that. They reject the holy trinity.