With the upcoming da Vinci Code movie starring Tom Hanks, you can bet there will be a big revival of the da Vinci craze. Apart from being unblushingly anti-Catholic in some of his books, Brown spins a very good tale. Problem is, people start believing it's all really true, when Brown is making a lot of the story up from whole cloth. That would be called fiction, and it's a popular genre.

Bill Wilder, of the Center for Christian Study in Charlottesville, gave a talk last year about the da Vinci Code, from the perspective of a Christian theologian. You can listen to it here on mp3.