From author Dan Brown's website:

ARE YOU A CHRISTIAN? Yes. Interestingly, if you ask three people what it means to be Christian, you will get three different answers. Some feel being baptized is sufficient. Others feel you must accept the Bible as absolute historical fact. Still others require a belief that all those who do not accept Christ as their personal savior are doomed to hell. Faith is a continuum, and we each fall on that line where we may. By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious--that is, that we are all trying to decipher life's big mysteries, and we're each following our own paths of enlightenment. I consider myself a student of many religions. The more I learn, the more questions I have. For me, the spiritual quest will be a life-long work in progress.

Emphasis mine. Maybe we should give him the benefit of the doubt, maybe he really just answered it wrong.

But then again...

¹⁶ "For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. ¹⁷ For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. ¹⁸ Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son. ¹⁹ This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. ²⁰ Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed. ²¹ But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God."

I don't know how a man could claim that he is a Christian and go on to profess heresy to millions. Aren't his books and movie cashing in enough controversy and money for him already? This man is seriously overrated and thoroughly confused, sure The Da Vinci Code gets people talking, but it's also a work of historical mistruths at that - albeit his disclaimer that the book is based on fact, I don't need to read it to know that that's a plain lie. Given how the Catholic Church teaches that parts of the Bible may not actually be true (among other things which I shall not elaborate upon), I don't know how much help all this "stimulation" may be giving to the Christian community. In a country like Singapore I'm willing to believe that more people than less have not come to know Christ or have been exposed in the wrong way; that is, with the abovementioned sensationalised piece of literature, or with pop-culture-powered evangelical church assemblies. Within such an economically-oriented and competitive society (which effects are felt way before adolescence), how could one start a philosophical debate or plea with those who see no purpose in faith and knowing God? Money is afterall all the security you'd ever need, isn't that so? Of course awareness is a step towards salvation, but with so many variations and claims to "the Truth" these days, wouldn't there be danger of someone somewhere trying similarly to capitalise on the Code phenomenon, or even others being misled by it due to incompetent avenues of message propagation? Afterall, wouldn't a non-believer find it easier to find revelance in something that strengthens his already-present mindset, than to try to commit himself to another belief?
To me the phenomenon spells more trouble than opportunity, and no one should be thanking Dan Brown for his works' apparent commercial success.

Coincidence would have it that today is the 6th of June, 2006, that is 06/06/06. Maybe not so coincidentally though, because this day would have come just like yesterday and the day before it, and the day last year and tomorrow so on and so forth. 666 is the mark of the beast, man's number, as depicted in the book of Revelation, and to my understanding, that's all there is to the number. I do not wish to trivialise the prophecy's significance though, just saying that there is no attached inherent evil in the number's random occurance.

So maybe my conclusive point here is that people (and that means people) should stop believing in superstition and fictional truths and be more discerning with our God-given gift of free will, because at the end of the day, eternity is at stake.