Every religion needs heresy. Without heresy, a religion dries up and dies. Christianity has had many heresies (including Mormonism, which, I believe, is one of the neatest and most creative heresies), but nothing really in the last hundred years or so.
Tomorrow, The DaVinci Code will deliver a whopper of a heresy down on the heads of comfortable Christians. But this little heresy is not little at all. It is the first mass media driven heresy in mankind’s history. Most heresies are passed on by word of mouth, but this one’s got all the power of Hollywood behind it. And no matter what the critics say (and they’re saying a lot already), my prediction is this little heresy is gonna knock the socks off Christianity.
But that’s just me.