Imagine if they made the "Rushdie Code"

[Don Corleone]

It's published as fiction, but he's always too clever by half with his coy wink and "We call it fiction because we 'have' to" and the other morning, on MSNBC, Ron Howard saying "the world isn't ready to recognize it as anything but fiction", as though it's not really fiction, but there's a tacit agreement to keep it there, for now.

Dan Brown has made it clear that he considers his writings to be a thesis. He's not stating for certain that's exactly what happened, but he believes, and he presents his ideas as the most logical conclusion to the so-called 'evidence' he has access to. Might be nice if he would share some of it with the rest of the world.

But you're right Seamus. If your faith could by shaken by the likes of a poor storyteller like Dan Brown, you never really had it to begin with. I now have the perfect answer for some of the members of my church when they say the DaVinci code is a devilish plot. No, it isn't. The Father of Lies wouldn't have his name associated with such a pathetic effort. Were he involved, the quality of story-telling would be much better.