Usually once a week or so, I like to get on Mark Wolf's Rocky Talk Live blog and see what people are arguing about, whether it's Jake Plummer's driving record or something that totally doesn't affect any of us, like politics.

A lot of times, people bring some very good points to the table, and it helps me decide where I stand on certain issues. But, most of the time, I'm not looking for that, and I just go there to scroll through and watch people argue via the Internet with as much vitriol as they can pound into a keyboard somewhere. It's kind of like watching The Real World, except online, and to my unsuspecting boss, it looks like I'm actually doing something.

The topics that I've found make people the most defensive/offensive are, in no certain order, politics and religion. And as far as religion goes, the latest hot topic of debate has been The Da Vinci Code, a book by Dan Brown and now a movie starring Tom Hanks.

I have no position on the book or the movie, because I haven't read or seen either of them. But, I thought maybe folks might have some strong feelings one way or the other on the issue, so I wanted to highlight some of the YourHub.com postings that deal, in one way or another, with The Da Vinci Code. Check them out -- you're bound to disagree with at least one of them. If you're registered at YourHub.com, please comment on the stories and maybe we'll get a good, old-fashioned word fight going here. If you're not registered, take a second to register so you can enjoy all the benefits of membership, such as commenting on this blog, as I've done below.

Joe McDaniel, of Parker, says, hey, it's fiction. Relax.

O. Frank Turner, of Westminster, finds a connection between The Da Vinci Code and the new vaccine to prevent cervical cancer.

Sunny Marie Hackman, of Lakewood, says the book gives Christians a good jolt of reality and presses them to "commit totally or abandon the faith."

Dr. Jack Van Ens, a theologian and author from Arvada, says The Da Vinci Code prefers circular religious pattern like those favored by pagans, instead of the "upward sloping line" of Christianity. His story, titled " The Da Vinci Code's religious wheel goes nowhere, is here.

Pastor Harlan Humiston, of the Meadowood Church in Aurora, will hold a two-part lecture on The Da Vinci Code on June 4 and 11.

Got about a week to kill? A search of blogs on Technorati found 208,501 posts containing the phrase "Da Vinci Code."

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