The Born Again Christian in Tony Muddied the Waters

Watch this, the best of all video documentaries on 'The Da Vinci' code phenomenon. Every location in the book is visited, scholars are asked for assessments and we learn much about Christian folklore, Renaissance patronage and the proclivity of even the thousand year-old Christian church to spurt cults and hermetic orders just as today.
When Robinson visits the Holy Sepulchre, however, he describes the entombment and resurrection of Christ, as they appear in the New Testament, as if this is indisputable fact.
Robinson is a lay archaeologist and historian, much of his learning coming from the erudites he works with on the British show 'Time Team'. He is also a born-again christian and worker for the British Labour party.
His attack is levelled at Dan Brown's revelation in his bestseller, which is cribbed from the Henry Lincoln and Michael Baigent Merovingian theory which does go back to Renaissance times, if not further.
The Johannites were a sect who believed John the Baptist was the true messiah, that Jesus was a decoy and that his gospels were lies. This is what they believed, because certain vague suggestions were made that Jesus may not have been the paradigm of virtue - i.e. non-carnal - popularised by mainstream Christianity.
The Gnostic gospels, discovered in Egypt in the early twentieth centuries, were censored texts and, arguably, part of the bible never allowed to transport through history to us. Mary Magdalene is an ascetic figure in these texts, nearly as much of a guru as John the Baptist or Jesus himself.

The Johannites, of whom Leonardo Da Vinci and some other illuminati (not the illuminati of conspiratorial theory) were possibly a part, almost hated that Jesus was the figurehead of the Church. The painting of the last supper is not only notable for depicting John as a woman or effeminate male, but for having a finger of defiance - a renaissance V-sign and prelude to that great insult of the bitten thumb - positioned to the left of the Christ figure. Leonardo may well have been saying "I hate this man!"
This was not an avenue explored by Robinson's documentary, possibly because it is archivally provable and would have taken him down another set of labyrinthine corridors. Maybe the New Testament needed to be taken at face value for the programme to work, but it was the neven bias in the program. Robinson's feelings have been hurt by Brown's book and, apparently by the fact Dan Brown would not speak to him for the programme. Al religions, from a sociological and mythological point of view, are very complex.
A more objective, but equally captivating, presenter may have been the order of the day. either that or we'll get Pat Robertson in the US to do one.