In Dan Browns new book entitled, "The Da Vinci Code," he presents a strong idea that in order to understand a religion one needs a strong base of knowledge on that religion. This theme is present throughout the entire book in many ways. The book starts out with the reader not having much background information on the Catholicism, but as the book progresses, there is more information revealed, a lot of which is not supported by the church. In addition, Dan Brown presents some radical ideas that take a direct attack against the church, for example Dan Brown repeatedly says that the Catholic Church staged many major cover-ups in order to politically enforce their religion.

At the beginning of the book Jacques Sauniére, the curator at the Louvre Museum in Paris, is murdered. Robert Langdon is called to the crime scene as the main suspect of the...