False church histories

The article in Tuesday's Deseret News concerning the controversy over the best seller "The Da Vinci Code" ("Clergy are rushing to decode 'Da Vinci'") gives Catholic and Protestant churches a taste of the kind of scurrilous falsehoods and conspiracy theories that are constantly published about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The book portrays Jesus of Nazareth as a man who was not divine and claims that the early Christian church suppressed multiple "gospels" about the "true" teachings of Jesus.

Raymond Takashi Swenson

Idaho Falls, Idaho