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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark Chance" data-source="post: 1694834" data-attributes="member: 2795">"On par" was too strong, but not by much. Anti-Catholicism is a very real prejudice that presents some very real and growing problems in several countries, including the U.S. Owing to the nature of those problems, which are all either religious or political, we really can't go into them here. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Brown isn't just lying in the content of his fiction. If he was, no sweat. To a certain extent, all fiction is a lie. That's why it's called fiction.But Brown does more than this. He makes claims in nonfiction contexts, such as fact pages and interviews, that are false. To recall the example of Constantine and his supposed influence on the canon of Christian scripture, Brown has made this claim not only as part of his fiction, but also as being a bona fide historical fact.Now, I can concede that Brown may not know he is lying when he says such things about Constantine. He may be genuinely ignorant, even though I'd find that very hard to believe. But, ignorant or not, it doesn't alter the fact that Brown and the pseudo-scholars that he liberally borrow from are, outside the context of fiction, saying a great many things that are simply untrue.</blockquote>