Posted on 05/09/2006 4:18:05 PM PDT by Frank Sheed
LOL Why is it so many intelligent, humorous and cool converts issued from the border countries?
Bingo. That's the common thread. And it's driven by the fact that the PC scholars simply DON'T LIKE the way things have been portrayed so far.
Ping to read later
Which his critics unearthed by carefully and cleverly decoding the secret message contained on the cover of his book -- which reads -- "A Novel".
I think it has to do with alcohol.
I am Irish and Algonquin. I agree with you :)
On the other hand, I could just be obsessed because I've given up drinking, temporarily ...
They are not. They are lies of the first order. But, not to worry. They aren't lies about you, so, no sweat. On with the show
:) For good reason Mom
Not surprising. It also would not surprise me if a bit of historical revisionist "iconography" seeped out of the DV Code. Watch for Mary Magdalene to start appearing in ecclesiastical art in certain churches, peeping out from behind Jesus or more likely standing right in front of Him.
Moms need a Restorative more than most people!
And speaking of restoratives, here's a Mark Steyn column on "The DaVinci Code."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1629832/posts
There are modern gnostics -- people who claim to be true believers.
Here is the bottom line of gnosticism: God is evil and has withheld "secret knowledge" from us that we need to find. That "secret knowledge" is often self-serving. Like when Allah told Mohammed how many wives he could have. In the ancient world it was a lot of stuff about permiscuous sex. Today it's often infused with politics.
Gnosticism is a conspiracy theory religion and "gnostic Christianity" is even worse in that it adds the church as an evil entity for "supressing" the "secret knowledge" of the gnostics. Gnosticism existed before Christianity without any trace of Judeo-Christian values or scripture. It is a parasitic religion, feeding off of the host body and it fed off of every religion, from Christianity to Zoroastrianism.
The only reason we know about it now is that it attached itself to Christianity and everyone who wants to believe that the Catholic Church has a basement full of secrets that it's hiding from the public (a Vatican Area 51) or just hates Catholics or Christians in general can point to some sort of "supression".
Here's the facts: The church fathers, part of a small group only a few generations removed from Paul and Peter, knew exactly what the second-century gnostic "Christians" were all about and none of the gnostic texts were ever under serious consideration at Nicea or elsewhere.
At this point, the Irishman could bear it no longer. He had to clean the streams of coffee that were now obscuring the text on his monitor. "I should remember to stop drinking coffee when reading Steyn," he noted mentally while tears continued to stream down his face.
As Dr. Simon Gathercole of the University of Aberdeen told my old pal Dalya Alberge in the London Times, the alleged Gospel of Judas "contains a number of religious themes which are completely alien to the first-century world of Jesus and Judas, but which did become popular later, in the second century AD. An analogy would be finding a speech claiming to be written by Queen Victoria, in which she talked about The Lord Of The Rings and her CD collection."
That's about the level of respect "scholars" like Pagels have for genuine history and sources.
I meant to spell check that, I really did.
I have crumbs in my keyboard. "Don't eat Pat's leftover lunch while reaading Mark Steyn!"
Sorry I can't offer you a drink, Mom. Pretend it's Lent but it goes on for an extra long time this year!
F
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