Annals of ironic unawareness - Vol. 238475

From CNN.com - Da Vinci book 'shows ignorance':

The popularity of The Da Vinci Code is a shocking indication of both mass ignorance and the "voluptuous pleasure" the media take in promoting works with no basis in truth, the Vatican's culture minister says.

Cardinal Paul Poupard, head of the Pontifical Council for Culture, on Monday told Europe 1 radio he had no objection to people seeing the film if they understand it is fiction, but many would watch this "nonsense" and think that it was true.

I think that stuff like The Da Vinci Code is trash too, but is it any trashier when compared to the "basis in truth" of the Bible?