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The Da Vinci Code is a hoax which purports to uncover a hoax while simultaneously replacing it with another hoax, which meanwhile draws attention away from far more insidious and much less obvious hoax. The hoax which it purports to uncover is the ridiculous idea of Apostolic Succession, that church leaders claim authority because Jesus laid his hands upon an Apostle who laid his hands upon his own disciples, who in turn laid their hands on their followers, who laid their hands on their own, and so on - down to the present age. Basically nothing more than the whisper of an echo of a fleeting touch by a man two thousand years ago in linear time. The hoax which it replaces Apostolic Succession with is one with a little more meat to it - literally. Or maybe not meat so much as blood. The notion that spirit...