da vinci

just bought the illustrated version of da vinci code, a birthday gift for a friend. and the hype is back again, at least for me.

Brown argues that since Christianity came to rule Western civilization over 1,500 years ago, the Church was able to rewrite historical facts in order to favor itself and make its past actions seem righteous. Brown, along with many other historians, believes that history must be studied, while keeping in mind that what we regard as true may not necessarily be so. He even goes so far as to question whether or not our version of history even occurred in the first place.