[Frank Sheed]

This is posted on the CWNews.com site.

[Frank Sheed]

>>>>>>>>>Da Vinci Code Hoax Ping!!!!!!!!!<<<<<<<<<<<<<

[Kenny Bunkport]

There's a reason why Brown's book is considered a work of fiction.

[Antioch]

A lifetime of heresy doesn't seem to have brought any joy in her life. Smile Elaine, you gave it your best shot!

[livius]

Good article. Not mentioned is that Elaine Pagels came out of the "feminist phony scholarship" world that has never, ever been challenged, anymore than the "black phony scholarship" world, which contained black university professors who taught that the Egyptians were secretly sub-Saharan Africans and that the world was divided into the Ice People (whites) and the Sun People (blacks).

In the phony scholarship world, the fundamental assumption is of a parallel history that has been covered up and has been left to the phony scholar alone to reveal.

If you start with the assumption that known history is a cover-up, naturally you're going to produce some bizarre results. But other people in your particular discipline are so intimidated by your PC credentials that they are afraid to challenge you and think it better to quietly ignore your "finds," which were arrived at by, at best, leaps of logic and at worst, intentional manipulation of sources.

Pagels is just doing the same-old same-old "feminist scholarship" routine, which is why nobody even expects her to tell the truth.

[bornacatholic]

She is a very naughty historian.

*She is a liar doing the work of the Devil, And, YIPEE, some great work by a Jebbie!!!!

[Tribune7]

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[Alex Murphy]

Ping to read later

[atlaw]

While Brown poses as a writer who researchs [sic] his subject carefully, his critics have exposed him as a novelist

Which his critics unearthed by carefully and cleverly decoding the secret message contained on the cover of his book -- which reads -- "A Novel".