I've read the Da Vinci Code. I quite liked it. It started with a great hook, one that made me think, "What? What was it?" and want to know. It was a tale of fiction that, by now, everyone knows was about Jesus and/or Christianity. But having that knowledge doesn't shed any light on what happens in the story.

Knowing that they suggest that Mary Magdalane and Jesus married, had kids, etc. is by no means a give-away of anything. And do you know why? Because the book is set in the present. In the book, people end up in a desperate race, to unravel a mystery while they still can. Some people want to imprison them, some people want to kill them. The journey is a very personal one for some of these characters. And for some, it's the last they'll ever take. Who can be trusted? Who is part of which conspiracy? Who lives? Who dies? These are questions about the story. And it's an excellent story.

"How many people believe Jesus didn't die on the cross, but went on to father children with Mary Magdalane?" is not a question about the story. It's a bit of newspaper fluff. It is what happens when the news is slow: it is made by those who are employed by it. So let me assure you, Da Vinci Code is not anti-Christian propoganda. It is a fantastic book, which kept me reading compulsively from start to finish. I read it in two evenings. Late evenings.

I'll be seeing the movie some time this weekend. I don't expect it to live up to the book, but if everyone who read the book goes to see it, it really doesn't have to be, does it? From a financial perspective, I mean.