[lexington minuteman 1775]

this is so sad. To let them film this tripe in a church is a travesty.

[Plymouth Sentinel]

My sentiments exactly.

Brown was taken in by a story constructed by mere conjurers. Priory of Sion as historical fact? Thirty or forty years perhaps. What nonsense. And he has sullied the good name of Opus Dei. Libelous!

Everyone I know suggested that I read this book (my interest in Grail stories, among other reasons), and I found it, and pronounce it here to be utter rubbish. His other books are just dreadful.

The real story is that it is a rock, not a chalice, and from it all good things come.

[SF Republican]

To let them film this tripe in a church - a church building, in my humble opinion, the people are the church, not the brick and mortar

[mudblood]

"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.