Ugh, how much time am I going to have to spend talking about this? I try to be optimistic about society, but how can people take Dan Brown's trash novels seriously? As someone who likes to think of myself as a (semi)serious academic--my whole life is orientated toward the search for and proclamation of the truth--these books really bug me. I know that they shouldn't get to me, but I throw-up a little each time Brown talks of "research" and the "facts" in his books. I guess what really bugs me is not so much Dan Brown himself, but how many people consume his work and take it seriously. As much as the powers that be try to pretend like this is "just fiction" (while nonsensically claiming it is based on facts...), the truth is the libelous insinuations and mistruths further the anti-Catholic narrative which has become the norm for western culture. Imagine if a book like this was published about any other religious or ethnic group? (Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion and The Jewel of Medina come to mind, both faced international condemnation and Tom Hanks would never even think about staring in those movies....)
Anyway, here is a good article if you need some refutation of Angels and Demons (In theaters soon!).
http://forums.catholic.com/showthread.php?t=330690
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