First the novel, then the movie; the Da Vinci phenomenon continues to grow and gross millions for its author.
It has all the ingredients that appeal to us. As Dan Brown himself writes, “Everybody loves a conspiracy theory”. We are fascinated by the alternative stories of famous people.
If you add to that mix the possibility that the ‘powers that be’ might be involved in a cover up, you have an explosive mix. But why bother with it; will it not come and go as every major new blockbuster does? Perhaps, but before that happens millions will have three assertions presented to them as fact: (1) Jesus Christ was married to Mary Magdalene and had a child; (2) the four gospels were chosen from among many that existed in the fourth century because they presented a divine Jesus versus a human Jesus in the excluded works; and (3) the divinity of Jesus became orthodoxy by a close vote at the council of Nicaea in AD 325.