I'd almost forgotten how much I hated this book...

...until I was reminded of its existence.

Barbara Nicolosi, in response to the claim that in order to engage in meaningful dialogue, all Christians must see The Da Vinci Code:

Da Vinci Code is so ridiculous in its premises, that it is giving it a false gravity to even take it seriously enough so as to argue about it. ["And tomorrow, the Christians will be offering a hermenutic of moral praxis as can be gleaned from next week's episode of WWF Smackdown. Ahem."] Yeah, let's all find a starting point for dialogue in the notion that a secret coterie of albino monks has been mythmaking about Jesus' Divinity for 2,000 years. No, you go first.

Now, Christians being coaxed into writing anti-DVC pieces on a stupid web site (like, well, this one) are meekly accepting that they are being given "a seat at the table" in some grand cultural discussion. Duped! There is no seat folks. There is no discussion. What there is, is a few p.r. folks in Hollywood taking mondo big bucks from Sony Pictures, to deliver legions of well-meaning Christians into subsidizing a movie that makes their own Savior out to be a sham.

Also,

Quick, someone assure me that Time and Newsweek and the NY Times, et al. will NOT be running reviews or ads for The Da Vinci Code because it is such an offensive caricature of the central figure of a major world religion!

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In a perfect world, Oprah would pull Dan Brown onto her show a la James Frey, and burn him alive for betraying the trust of the world. Actually, that's not entirely true. In a perfect world, Oprah would exist only as either a) a figment of my imagination, or b) a housekeeper.

What is the place of The Da Vinci Code in the history of Western Civilization? The question itself is laughable. Let's put it this way: TDVC reminds me of that fat, ugly chick you banged your sophomore year. You can't deny that she ever happened, but you'd sure like to forget you were ever stupid/drunk enough to feign interest in what she had to say. Anything to get your dick wet, right?

P.S. Giz is convinced that I will actually see this when it comes out.