Here’s a quarter…

I don’t often write about what Flippy and I do when we’re not surfing the Internet and reading blogs, but one of our hobbies is surfing the Internet and reading one of our message boards, Cult of Dan Brown.  It’s a site we started a couple of years ago after reading Dan Brown’s books and enjoying them, and I swear we had the board up and running before Dan Brown became “it”.  We thought we’d use the site to have fun little book discussions, but it surprisingly attracted a bunch of really smart people, many of whom discuss topics I don’t understand at all.  The site has been cited as a reference source in books, newspaper articles, and even in press releases from Opus Dei, so we’re quite proud of it.  It’s obviously had a bit of extra traffic lately with the release of “The Da Vinci Code” movie, which has in turn led to me receiving a bit of extra correspondence from website visitors.

Long story short, every nut on the planet is writing to me.  They tell me to “stop lying”, and some of them tell me to “tell the truth”.  About what, I’m not sure, but they seem to feel I’m behind some huge anti-Christian conspiracy.  Many people say they’ll be praying for me because of all the “damage” I do with my website.  Today I got email from some guy in Romania, who said, “I am from a sick country from Eastern Europe, and I am telling you the truth.  I was half blind before this year’s spring, and by the God’s will I am no longer blind, but under the pressure of the same sick people.”  I’m getting this stuff every single day, and I suppose it makes me feel all powerful and omnipotent, but I mostly think it’s a silly waste of everyone’s time.

The Da Vinci Code was just a book.  If you feel so threatened by it that you have to clog my inbox with letters, then perhaps some prescription medication would benefit you.  As I can barely keep up with my vacuuming around the house, I assure you I’m not part of any effort to overthrow the Vatican.  And hey, if you’d like to buy my website, you know, to stop all the truthiness, please send me a cashier’s check for $25000 and I will hand it over with a smile.  I’d probably even hand it over for $10000, but I wouldn’t smile as much.

Posted by Leigh-Ann on 05/24 at 10:19 PM

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  1. Kudos.

    Seriously, the book is a piece of fiction. It’s not lies. It’s not even claiming to present facts. It’s just a well written story presenting a plausible scenario for a nifty murder mystery and treasure hunt.

    People scare me.  I haven’t been so blown away by what people can do in response to a story since I heard they were burning Harry Potter books for undermining the Church and promoting witch craft.

    Posted by prajantr  on  05/26  at  08:23 AM

  2. A-HA!!!  “I assure you I’m not part of any effort to overthrow the Vatican.”  <—- That’s exactly the sort of thing the instigator of a plot to overthrow the Vatican would want us to think!

    Posted by Helly  on  05/26  at  09:50 AM
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