Notes:
If true. Two very important words to consider. If Dan Brown is
simply making up a plotline and including farfetched fantasy,
then this response would not be necessary. But Brown maintains
that all he is writing is real.
There is a reason Brown wants to stress his work is factual. He wants you to come
away with a new mindset. "One of the aspects that I try very hard to incorporate
in my books is that of learning," said Brown in an interview with Bookpage
magazine. "When you finish the book, like it or not, you've learned a ton.“
4 So Brown the novelist is also a teacher. And, like many good teachers,
he begins his lesson by calling into question what you always thought was
unquestionable.
Jesus had sexual relations with Mary Magdalene?
Our Bible is the construct of Constantine's political whims?
The church has it in for women?
Jesus was "voted" divine at the Council of Nicaea?
We can't honestly embrace these ideas, can we? After all, we have
historical facts to show each of these claims to be false. Brown, however,
has his own ideas about history and how much it can be trusted: