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One thing that really gets me upset is when pastor-type people try too hard to “refute” The Da Vinci Code stuff.  For instance, Sunday i was at a church in Michigan and the preacher said things to the effect of:

• Because there are actually 673 panes of glass on the pyramid at the Louvre (and not 666 as Brown states in the book), the book is wrong.  And even that is wrong as the Louvre’s website (link) states (Virtual Tours->Architectural Views->Cour Napoleon) that the pyramid in question has “almost 800 glass lozenges and triangles.”
• “Jehovah” is a Latin creation of Brown to confuse matters on the Hebrew YHWH.  The preacher (who has studied OT Hebrew!) does not realize that “Jehovah” was the original attempt at pronouncing YHWH by adding the vowels that aren’t present.  It wasn’t until later that scholars though that “Yahweh” was more accurate.
• Because the movie crew could not film at Westminster Abbey (minor location in the book for a major artifact in the quest), Brown must be wrong.

Now, i agree that Dan Brown was a bit far-fetched and had very little understanding in what he was writing, but this zealousness to disprove a work of fiction is a bit much.  Give it a rest.