More on the Da Vinci Code's Junk Scholarship

The Da Vinci Code
A little while ago I blogged on this novel -having read it- opining that it was a good fun adventure story but the so-called historical facts were based on the 'Sacred Blood' stuff and that the way the author presented this stuff was as if it was fact even if the story was fiction. Of course the history is bunk but a lot of people who have an anti-institutional church bias and a feeling for the perceived underdogs in the forming of the canon, take it as gospel. So we need to be ready with reasoned and pithy defenses -especially as apprently it's being made into a film. We need not to go protesting about it and giving free publicity to it as Tim Bednar cautions but we do need to take seriously the way that 'propaganda' that erodes Chritian credibility is being drip fed into our culture and because we aren't good at refuting it with timely well-chosen facts and good humour, we losing the battle for hearts and minds. Anyway Tim's article from the title link is a good place to start.