I seldom agree with the views of Miranda Devine, the “conservative” writer for the Sydney Morning Herald. She frequently comes across as ill-informed and condescending, and her writing all too often consists of generalisations, sweeping statements, and half truths.

However her write up regarding the furore surrounding this week’s premier of The Da Vince Code, struck a chord with me. She suggests, rightly to my mind, that Christians have bigger fish to fry, rather than getting in a lather over a movie, and the fictional (note that word fictional) novel it is based on.

If the novel has “shaken the faith” of many Christians, as The King’s School headmaster Dr Timothy Hawkes and others seem to believe, then that faith can’t have been very durable. A crook meal might have had a similar effect.

Well said. It almost seems to me many people would like to believe some of what Dan Brown has suggested in his fictional novel.

People believing in, and even having faith in, a work of fiction? I don’t now about anyone else, but there’s more than a hint of irony in that proposition. Anyone know where I’m coming from here? Did I mention I am non religious myself?