Grace Goes Missing

"Your God does not forgive murderers," Audrey Tautou hisses to Paul Bettany (who plays a less than enormous, short-haired albino). "He burns them!" --NY Times review of the Da Vinci Code movie

I have not seen the movie, which opens today in the U. S. But I got the above line from today's NY Times movie reviewer, which gave the show a tepid two-and-a-half stars and said it took longer to see The Da Vinci Code than to read it.

Lots of people have commented on Brown's theology, and I won't explore that in depth here. I just want to say several words about his insistence, via Ms. Tautou's character, that the God worshiped by Roman Catholics does not forgive murderers:

Consider Moses, Paul, and David.