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I didn't "love" this book for any reason other than the fact that it gives "religion", especially the arrogant "catholic" religion, a good pop in the gut which it deserves. For years, I have read and researched similar topics along the lines of what Dan Brown was aiming at in his novel. What I have read is NOT fiction. These are scholarly works, not to be taken lightly. The difference between the other books and this one is that Brown created fiction out of the historical reality that he too, has discovered over time, and for that I say "bravo" for enlightening the masses as to what religion has done to the people of this earth. There have been so many omissions, cover-ups, erasures, deletions, and campaigns of destruction that it ought to shake our sensibilities to the core. But, we think that the "teachings" and "doings" of religion are right and true, which is itself a colossal myth. I just encourage people to find out the capital ‘T� Truth for themselves and leave the hocus-pocus, supernaturalism, and the lies to vanish in the quagmire of history where they belong.

There was a lawsuit against Brown which he WON as we know, and which was won in Britain's High Court of Appeal. No small minds in that arena. It is most assuredly NOT inconceivable that Jesus the man, the Jewish Rabbi, would have, could have, and should have been married! For him NOT to have been married , he would have had few devotees indeed, for in those times, a Rabbi was respected and held in esteem if he was a family man. For him to have been unmarried would have been frowned upon, not only that, but he would have contravened Divine Law which would have insulted the Jewish God, AND the people.

Now, he may have been PORTRAYED as celibate, (by the sexually neurotic catholics) but it's doubtful that he ACTUALLY was. And what's the big deal if he wasn't? The fact is that NO ONE really knows, but the probability of his being a 'virgin' is slim. Dan Brown never set out to make titanic waves with his book, but he did nevertheless. And good for him for doing so! He was writing a novel. Period. End of story. And yet--he was able to reach millions of readers who would ordinarily not reach out to academic bookshelves for a research tome. This was Dan Brown's clever way of getting a terribly important social, historical message out to the average Jane and Joe. He did an outstanding job, and I for one will always be grateful to him for doing what he did. He made people think. And he left people going: 'wow!'. Can you ask for more from a writer? No, it is not a literary masterpiece. But you can rest assured that The DaVinci Code isn't going to slip quietly into that good night like many people wish it would. Nope, it's going to be discussed, torn apart, put down, held up to scrutiny, and praised longer than you or I could even wish for. Brown succeeded in stirring up--through a novel--a controversy that was long overdue in coming to the attention of the general population. Because the Truth had been hidden by churchianity for far too long. Uh, amen.