Why 'Da Vinci Code' Is Such a Hot, Controversial Subject

Hoopla surrounds "The Da Vinci Code" at every turn -- the novel, the upcoming movie, the actual substance of the tale as outlined in 60 Minutes last Sunday.

The biggest, most sacreligious thing to come up in "Da Vinci" is that Jesus might have been married -- to Mary Magdalene -- and that he might have been father to a daughter.

So what?

The Son of God, if indeed that was who Jesus Christ was, would still be the Son of God even if he was married. That would not stop the ultimate sacrifice and the resurrection.

But such talk would stop, dead in its tracks, many Christian denominations that probably shouldn't be Christian at all. The Catholic Church is the big target here; if the "Da Vinci" allegations about Jesus are true, then the entire history of tyhe Roman Catholic Church is a massive fraud.

Other divisions of Christianity -- the older Coptic Christians, the Iraqi Christians, the other orthodox Christians, Russian Orthodox and the bulk of the Protestant denominations -- have no real objection to Jesus Christ as a possible husband and dad. The Bible simply isn't definitive on the subject.

The other major group of people that the Da Vinci Code thesis benefits is the godless, the pagan, possibly even the Islamic. Anything to directly attack Christ as the savior of mankind would benefit these groups.

I, for one, know where I stand, and before all this is over, you had better know where you stand.

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