Nonsense

John J. Miller of the Corner reviews Angels and Demons:

After reading The Da Vinci Code earlier this year (and writing about it here), I decided to check out Angels and Demons, the first book starring Dan Brown's protagonist Robert Langdon. It's been on the best-seller lists because flocks of DVC readers have felt a similar impuluse, wanting to go back and enjoy Langdon's adventures before he discovered (in DVC) that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were husband and wife (which is nonsense, of course).

So the notion that Jesus was attracted to females and eventually married one is "nonsense," but the story about Christ rising from death after three days is an a priori truth?

I suppose I shouldn't have stopped going to church, because that sounds loony to me! Nonetheless, let's let John finish:

There are a lot of similarities between the two books: breakneck storytelling, deep-seated anti-Catholicism, an obsession with the occult, European setting, the love interest is the daughter of a murdered man, etc. But Angels and Demons isn't nearly as inventive as it more popular sequel. Despite my objections to DVC, I sort of enjoyed the novel and found the experience of examining several of its chief claims edifying. Not so with A&D. I was glad to have finished it because it means I can move on to something else, which won't be another Dan Brown book.

Ooh, snap!