The movie and book also state that no one regarded Jesus as divine until Constantine declared Jesus so sometime after A.D. 300. It also states that nothing is original in Christianity, and that everything about it is stolen from other religions. It also stresses that "the Curch suppressed something called "the Sacred Feminine". You really did not pay attention, did you?
Thanks for the toungue lashing, but re-read my post plese. I almost added, and now in hind sight should have added, that I am differentiaing between faith in Christ and faith in the Church.
I don't want to be percieved as defending the movie because I thought it and the book are examples of pretty sloppy scholarship, but scholarship isn't what should necessarily go into movies. A movie about Jesus can take bits and pieces of history and lore and scripture and stitch it all together to present Jesus as a visitor from outer space if the producers want to.
Maybe it's hard for me to see this film as especially dangerous or challenging because I just can't take it as serious scholarship, in spite of Brown's assertion in the forward of the book that the Priory of Sion "actually" existed (prior to its creation in the 20th century, that is). It's more like science fiction--and there has been many a good science fiction book that took relgious elements and turned them on their head, made an interesting viewpoint at faith and spirituality, and on top of that made a good book and/or movie.
Oh just minor heresy.