da vinci Code: Fiction or Fact?

It's fiction. Nobody with a little knowledge of history could take it as serious fact. The novel uses a series of independent real events and places and mixes them into a highly commercial blend, that pretends to be a sensational discovery. And those sceptics who are sceptics for the same reasons as many Christians are Christians -because of ignorance-, can celebrate this new confirmation of ... what? I should already know better, but it astonishes me again and again how pert ignorance can be.

I haven't read the Da Vanci Code or seen the movie and I don't plan on it. I think it's rubbish as well. I don't know about brainwashing, but it certainly could put that little bit of doubt in a person's mind.

I've read the book, and I don't think it is possible to seperate fact from fiction. Remember that for a number of centuries that the bible was not allowed to be read by ordinary people, so it is possible that during that time that it was suitably and subtley altered by the Catholic Church to suit its own ends and further its doctrine. The Night's Templar were guardians of the Catholic Church for several hundred years until the suddenly became excomunicated and hunted down by the church, and almost all members were killed, there were a few believed to have escaped.

I guess I just took it as the fiction it was and never really entertained any kind of thought as if it were real. God's Word is truth. You contradict it and you know you are no longer in the truth. Pretty simple to me.