Not having read Dan Brown’s novel, I will have to defer to Ryan on his description of the book itself. As everyone knows, Murray Rothbard enjoyed a good conspiracy theory or two, but I suspect that were he alive today, he would have had fun tearing apart the conspiracy that Brown has purported to be at the heart of the Christian faith.

As for impact on Christianity, I doubt this will have any more influence than the equally stupid “The Last Temptation of Christ” that came out in 1988. Bruce Bawer, who used to write movie reviews for The American Spectator, trashed “Temptation” so well that I doubt I could have seen the movie without breaking into fits of laughter.

Unfortunately, like the U.S. Government, many evangelicals today live in great fear of many things. One of them is that movies like “Da Vinci Code” and Brown’s books are Major Challenges to the Faith when, in reality, they are not even tiny pebbles in a pond. Yes, Brown sold a lot of books and made a bunch a money, but the book’s message only appealed to those who wanted to be deceived in the first place.