Why conspiracy theories sell
Thomas Carolan looks at the politics behind the Da vinci code “What crudeness, insolence, nastiness! A shop for miracles, a business office trafficking in grace.... But best of all is the papal blessing broadcast to Lourdes by — radio. The paltry miracles of the Gospels side by side with the radiotelephone! And what could be more absurd and disgusting than the union of proud technology with the sorcery of the Roman chief druid? Indeed, the thinking of mankind is bogged down in its own excrement.” Leon Trotsky, 1935 The Catholic Church, not too surprisingly, does not like The Da Vinci Code. It...