[maine-iac7]

it is perfectly acceptable to make up lies and attribute absolutely any horrible thing you want to the Catholic Church or a Catholic organization like Opus Dei? If you are a Protestant or an Atheist, can I make up anything I want about you and turn it into a fictional movie using your name just because some Protestants or some Atheists have committed horrific crimes?

LOL

Once again, for the history-challenged: Brown did not manufacture these themes - he is being both credited and vilified for ideas that have been around for centuries...he just happened to turn them into a good fiction read that caught on...Caution: do NOT read any of the many nonfiction books on this subject. It doesn't look like you could handle it.

But for those who don't need to be stuck in a comfortable spoon-fed cocoon, you can read my post # 53 for a tiny tip of the iceberg on the histories upon which Brown drew: I simply copy-pasted - I did not MAKE UP these historical accounts. You give me too much credit and blame, same as to Brown.

Caution: reading and researching on your own prerequisite: the ability to handle the truth and use your own mind.

Myself, I prefer to rely on what JESUS said over the many differing extrapolations of man since. starting with Paul - who never met or was taught with the Apostles...and who was at odds with Peter and the original 12 on many points - who preached his own gospel, etc. He and Peter were at loggerheads...why is that?

[Unam Sanctam]

Please present indisputable factual evidence why I should believe some 20th Century anti-Catholic bigot that Jesus married Mary Magdalene and had children and was not the Son of God, and that Mary Magdalene is a Goddess, and that the apostolic college were charlatans who covered all this up, and that Paul and the Evangelists invented an entire religion based on this charlatan non-divine Jesus, and that they penned a false history in the New Testament, and that Paul's and the Evangelists proximity in time and space to the events of the Gospel and the oral tradition of the apostolic generation are completely irrelevant to the historical truth of the New Testament, and that therefore 20th Century anti-Christians are more to be relied on to state the facts of Jesus' life, and that the Priory of Sion was not 20th century hoax, and that it ws not Renaissance artistic convention to portray St. John the Apostle as a callow and beardless and, yes, effiminate youth ...