The Da Vinci Code conspiracy

I like it. I've been looking for a nice bit of apologetic ju-jitsu for the DVC and here it is. Thanks to Damaris a conspiracy theory to theoretically out-conspire Brown, Baigent, Leigh and all the other fantasy-history revisionists.

Could it be that Dan Brown has been plucked from the obscurity of being an English teacher and beginning novelist in New England by a secret society which has made him its spokesman? With his interest in conspiracy theories as a useful smokescreen, he would be able to write a book that could get under the public’s critical radar and persuade them to believe the cover-up. One imagines that the guardians of the secret are Picknett, Prince, Baigent and Leigh. Henry Lincoln has kept rather quiet which suggests he is the ultra-secretive Grand Master of this secret society. Somehow their agents have inflitrated the worlds of publishing and movies. The central question is, what are they trying so hard to cover up? Surely it can only be the greatest of all two thousand-year-old mysteries: a story that eclipses fantasies of New World Orders and aliens; the claim that the most powerful being there is, God himself became a man and lived in our world, dying and rising again to destroy the oldest conspiracy of all. And what is the oldest conspiracy of all? The suggestion that we are able to do without our Creator, supplanting him with other gods and, ultimately, taking on the role of God for ourselves. Could it be that people are desperate to believe the cover up for fear that the real truth might actually require a response?

Now, I have to say that I find, from time to time that Damaris fall back into a skepticism about post-modernism that smacks of rejectionism and seems reluctant to make any positive appraisals and so tends to side with the modernist-encultured Christian perspectives of the Christian establishments. But that aside, they produce some good resources and usually have something provocative to say.
So my main question now is whether we can make this conspiracy theory stick in the imagination of the general public?

There's a good summary of the real history of Jesus' divinity and gnosticism etc at the Slate it's succinct and straight to the point, worth bookmarking for future reference or forwarding to a friend.

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