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Oh, the book fairly screams, you thought the Bible was given to you from On High? Well it wasn't -- human beings rejected and accepted books. How can that not be politics as usual?

Of course, this is not news. Catholic theology embraces this interaction of human and divine and deals with it. Although in recent decades, the points are rarely made from pulpits or in schools because, well, we'd all rather talk about being our best selves and finding financial peace.

Which then leaves a big fat opening for breathless theorizing. The history is there, it makes sense, and the orthodox Christian account is actually reasonable. But few in churches talk about it, so hardly anyone knows, and more people than I can say report to me of life-long Catholics waving The Da Vinci Code in their faces and asking, "Did you know?!"

More people than I can count write letters like this to me:

And this one, which I award the prize for Absolutely Most Frightening Letter of 2003:

The Da Vinci Code

The Way, the Truth, the Life, whatever.

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