The Vatican is blasting Dan Brown’s novel The Da Vinci Code. I’m not Catholic, but I completely agree with their assessment. The book does not make a distinction between verifiable fact and rampant speculation in it’s presentation of Church history.

Because of that, its near-blasphemous indictments against Christianity and Christ Himself will almost certainly confuse potential believers and give uninformed skeptics yet another reason to shun faith.

“Don’t buy this. Don’t read this because this is rotten food,” said Bertone, the highest ranking Catholic churchman to speak out against the blockbuster.

“A lot of novels do good but this book is rotten food … it does harm, not good,” Bertone said in the 30-minute interview in the offices of the Vatican’s doctrinal department.

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