Posted on 04/06/2003 10:08:46 AM PDT by marshmallow
In France, where even practicing Catholic or Jewish politicians shrink from mentioning religion, the daily Le Monde reacted sharply last week to the news that the U.S. House of Representatives had called for a day of national prayer and fasting to secure divine blessings for U.S. troops in Iraq.
Reminds me my good old days in French schools, where our principal who was a right winger was chastised around for his beliefs by political oponents during mayoral elections. IT is just the tactic of pogroming people for what they do in private and for representing themselves. They only want their ideologies and their gurus to be represented.
But where did the priest spend all that money?
The priest funded the rehabilitation of the castle, village and monastery at Rennes-Le-Chateau. The mystery is not where he spent but how he came by the funding. Some theorize it was the templar treasure, the link in my prior post goes to a discussion theorizing visigoth treasure or the vatican hush money.
To this day bus loads of Europeans show up at Rennes-Le-Chateau in southern France with metal detectors looking for lost buried treasure. It is near the town of Albi which gave the name to the Albigensian heresy and then Crusade. It also is the place where the rosary was "invented" at the urging of mary to help quell the heresy. Also, this is where the famous saying "Kill themn all and let God sort them out" was first used. It says so on all the touristy french web sites.
Templar heresy and Cathar historical ren-enactment is as big a rage in southern France among french tourists as the square knot society civil re-enactments in Britain and Civil War re-enactments in the U.S. Heresy still pays off big money. Ask the P2 society in Italy!
I read it all on the internet so it must be true :-) Your fellow "DensaMensa"
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