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00:00What Leonardo da Vinci wanted to tell us was something very basic about the Roman Catholic
00:25Church, and he has coded that in his paintings.
00:32Is it more likely that a man should be born of a virgin and walk on water and rise from
00:38the dead, or is it more likely that he should have been born as other men are born, married
00:45and raised a family?
00:48Mary Magdalene is the most important woman in the world history, not for what she said
00:53or did particularly, but because of the reason that the church fathers were so afraid of
00:59her image.
01:02When Dan Brown makes his suggestion that this great cover-up has gone on, a lot of people
01:08get nervous and become instinctively critical of the Da Vinci Code.
01:14But the big picture question of how Constantine and subsequent Roman emperors reshaped Christianity
01:24to serve their own purpose of political theory for the empire is a powerful and I think largely
01:31valid argument.
01:35Double Day published The Da Vinci Code six months ago, and since that moment I have been
01:39asked one question over and over and over, and that is, why does everyone want to talk
01:46about this book?
01:48And I'd love to say it's about the storytelling and it's about the writing.
01:52In all fairness and in all honesty, it probably has a lot more to do with the subject matter.
02:08And I'm sorry.
02:09So long ago.
02:10What do you think?
02:10I'm sorry.
02:11It's about the content matter.
02:12I fear everything on my mind, I might be with the structure of my mind.
02:14But it's about the nature of the church in New York City, and I have the game on my mind,
02:18the one that's a strange thing that you want to talk about.
02:20In all fairness and the family have been real, it's a terrible thing.
02:23It's about the thing that you want to talk about, too.
02:26It's about the story of the history.
02:29It's about the dream that you want to talk about when you want to talk about the story of the