DaVinci Code Madness
Seriously, The DaVinci Code is a good book. Period, no need to read into it, it's not the "new" bible, its not Dan Brown's attempt to make you disbelieve in anything you already believe in. It merely takes "fact" or at least research and populates a fictional world with real world ideas. It is amazing, however, that it takes a work of fiction for Christians to actually read books that, maybe not contain contrarian positions, but at least highlight some of the data that has been shielded from the masses for hundreds of years. I can also say, that anyone that reads Brown's other books you see that he takes some hardcore research, whether he did it himself or not, and puts it into real world situations, whether it's about history, or whether it's about scientific discoveries. What the guy did was take an intriguing plot, throw in a twister at the end and throw in a lot of heavy research.
Now for anyone to take offense or to be quick to the defensive, most parents know that this clearly means that someone did something wrong...in this case, that someone may not have the faith in what they supposedly believe in, otherwise, this book would simply be a book. Anyone that has true Faith in ANYTHING, would simply look at a book that deals with aspects of that Faith, gloss over the parts that could rock that Faith to it's foundations and look at the book for what it is....a story....and a good story at that!
Good book, hope to see the movie, heard it's good...that's it...and yes I am still a Christian after having absorbed this book!