Just finished reading Dan Brown's latest.  I don't normally read fiction, but I read this just to stay in touch with the type of propaganda that is being disseminated.

This book is utterly ridiculous.  It's a great example of modern American kitsch.  It takes all the sleazy ploys of American entertainment, and applies them to celebrate the lowliest aspect of modern civilization: secret societies, and all the pseudo-spiritual accoutrements of occultism.

This book takes an amazing turn however.  It's been at least 250 years since the occult underground has been concentrating their efforts on discrediting Christianity.  It's been consistent.  Explore the teachings of occult philosophers, and you'll find repeated and vociferous condemnations of the Christian religion.  Brown's last two works have been no different.  Until now.

The surprising conclusion is that the lost symbol, or the lost "word" of the Ancient...