You’ve got two fairly prominent DVC debunkers in your neighborhood. Too bad you couldn’t do better with this answer:

Q: "The DaVinci Code" continues to remain on The New York Times best- seller list more than two years after it was published. What do you make of that book’s popularity?
A: "I think people like intrigue. I think they like to see a major institution such as the church being tweaked a little bit. I read the book. What bothers me about the book is that it is footloose and fancy-free with history and fact. And I am not so sure that a lot of people are alert to that."
Q: What were your qualms with it?
A: "Some of the interpretations of Da Vinci’s paintings. Some of the insinuations about Opus Dei. Some of the insinuations about how the Vatican functions. Just enough kernels of truth, but a great deal of poetic license."
Um, JESUS AND MARY MAGDALENE AS LOVERS,  JESUS AS A HIPPIE TEACHER OF GNOSTICISM, THE GOSPELS AS POLITICALLY-MOTIVATED FICTION, AND THE CHURCH AS THE ENEMY OF TRUTH.
Poetic license, indeed.
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