Somebody has probably already pointed out that the publication date of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code March 18, 2003 came just two days before the U.S. invasion of Iraq. That isn't a conspiracy, it's just a coincidence. But it does as fans of The Da Vinci Code often say make you think .
Consider: Brown's novel proposed an alternate history of Christianity, wherein a bitter schism took place shortly after Jesus' death, between the mean patriarchal faction who concealed Jesus' marriage and the nice faction consisting of startlingly liberal first-wave feminists....