[Bingo Jerry]

I think the problem is more with believers getting off track by reading this book than non-believers.

[Mr. Silverback]

You could be right.

[VOA]

I think the problem is more with believers getting off track by reading
this book than non-believers.

My suspicion as well.
I bet there are plenty of pastors/preachers that aren't stepping
up to the plate and effectively combating this "pop theology" book.
It surely is entertaining fiction, but needs to be totally outed
as anything else.

[Antoninus]

I think the problem is more with believers getting off track by reading this book than non-believers.

Very true. Given the weak state of catechesis in the Catholic Church--particularly in America--huge numbers of Catholics fall victim to this cr@p. My cousin's wife thought the book was fascinating--until I debunked it for her.

Just last night, a nurse asked my wife what she thought of the Da Vinci Code. My wife replied that she didn't read it but heard it was junk. The nurse replied that she thought it was good because, "it made you think."

A book like the Da Vinci Code only makes the grotesquely ignorant think. For anyone with a modicum of historical savvy, it's very obvious that the book was written by a hack to intrigue the gullible.

[Sans-Culotte]

I think the problem is more with believers getting off track by reading this book than non-believers.

Actually, I do not expect believers to be misled. But the people on the sidelines, with a sort of quasi-belief; people who are "not quite sure" what they believe, will swallow it. I know, because I hear them talking about it, and defending Dan Brown to nth degree.

If you start hearing people in your church yakking on about how eye-opening The Da Vinci Code is, then the book will have turned out to be a way to tell sheep from goats, because there is no way the book is compatible with traditional Christianity.