Oh my god, this book is AWFUL!!! And I'm not a religious sort who would be offended by the subject matter. In fact, the most pernicious thing about this book may be that it appropriates important research and theories about early Christianity, garbles them and bastardizes them beyond recognition and then serves them up to an ignorant and unsuspecting public. How many people who might benefit from reading a book by Elaine Pagels or Dominc Crossan will read this trash, see right through its silliness and deceit and then lump it together with legitimate studies of the development of Christianity and dismiss them all as worthless?

And the writing is just pathetic. I used to use Mario Puzo as a touchstone for bad prose writing, but Dan Brown has Mario beat hands down. Ughhh!!!