Yes, it’s been a frightening eight days since I last blogged! My deepest apologies. I was going to blog on Monday, after reading “The Da Vinci Code,” but Lisa distracted me. So here I am….the Da Vinci Code.

I was intrigued by the book, and couldn’t help but turn the pages for almost a straight day as I tore through it. At first the whole “worship woman” motif was a little annoying, but it soon became downright obnoxious, then nauseating. I couldn’t believe how much “factual” or “historical” information that Dan Brown put in there that was ridiculously speculative or downright false.

If you really want to know which facts I’m referring to, read here, and here, and here. There’s too many to enumerate them all, but most shocking is the glaring issue of the introductory “Fact” about the Priory of Sion that come on the first page before chapter 1. It’s simply not true. The whole rest of the book never claims to veracity, but the one part that claims to actually be true is a lie.

The saddest part is how many people have questioned the historical facts that they have always firmly believed because of a preposterously fictional book with no true academic scholarship behind it. …sigh…