The Da Vinci Code

I probably wouldn't have read The Da Vinci Code had not it been given the huge amount of press coverage it is currently receiving. I'm sure Dan Brown is laughing all the way to the bank.

I will read it now.

I am a little disgusted at the attacks it has received, and it makes me wonder why those instigating the attacks are so worried.

Do they really believe that people aren't smart enough to think and study for themselves, and come to their own conclusions?

Or would they rather just cram what they (and I for that matter) know is truth, and have them accept it blindly? Sometimes, I really think so.

It is a novel, and as he says...

“It’s a book about big ideas, you can love them or you can hate them. But we’re all talking about them, and that’s really the point.”

...and...

"A very wise British priest noted recently in the press, ‘Christian theology has survived the writings of Galileo and the writings of Darwin; surely, it will survive the writings of some novelist from New Hampshire.’"

Right on.