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"this tripe"

I'm not even a Christian and I agree. Dan Brown purposely takes pieces of truth and dresses them up as well-researched, and then adds his own anti-Christian bias to it. And actually, he lies quite a bit. He talks about a vote to decide if Christ was the son of God (a vote maybe 100-200 years after Christ's death). He makes it seem like Christ won by only a narrow margin, when in reality the vote was a political vote to marginalize a heretical faction that was trying to usurp control of the church, and they lost by a very wide margin.
The average reader, like me, feels that the author must have done their homework, and that on top of a good read he or she will learn some things. Sadly, most readers will go around parrotting these lies and causing an unknowable amount of damage. I know catholics who read these books and who've come away saying things like "I believe it, this stuff happened" (paraphrased).
I may not be a Christian (I'm agnostic) but I have a reverence for history and the truth, and this Dan Brown character's absolute scum.