Today, in the "People are Sheep" department, The Telegraph reports:

Two thirds of Britons who have read Dan Brown's thriller believe that Jesus fathered a child with Mary Magdalene, a claim rejected as baseless by historians and Bible scholars.

I'm sure the soft-headedness doesn't go both ways: I doubt a good reading of the Gospel of John would convince a sizeable fraction that Jesus was "the way, the truth, and the life."

Perhaps they need to come out with a new version of the bible which has puzzles on every page?

(And mebbe they could score an endorsement from Harvard's "Department of Symbology"? Hmmm... I seem to be having a hard finding the phone number for that one...)