This is just rank slander. Icons and images stand for spiritual principles - and as a Catholic, you are majorly throwing stones from a glass house. You want to talk about taking icon worship at face value in a sanitarium? How about worshipping a bloody, tortured, murdered guy up on a cross, and then partaking in the ritualistic eating of his flesh and drinking of his blood? How does that sound, taken at face value, without any spiritual interpretations or teachings to explain it's deeper meanings? You are way, way out of line, and you're not doing Catholicism any good with your ignorant rantings about a religion of which you are utterly ignorant and against which you are clearly biased and abjectly unfair, insulting and misleading.
No: Catholicism has been under the microscope for over 2000 years by scholars, theologians, historians, jurists, and philosophers of every stripe and the Man on the Cross resurrected himself according to eyewitness accounts. Go read the historical accounts. This is not some false myth, legend or pagan offering..
My comment was in response to strong Catholic reaction to the Da Vinci Code in the context of Hinduism. That the long history in India of bloody reactions to alleged Hindu desecration is evidence enough that they should in this context understand what is a relatively mild and democratic response to those who produced this movie. Apparently you failed to grasp this context.