Posted on 05/22/2006 7:33:21 PM PDT by Pyro7480
Dan Brown's novel, Angels & Demons, describes an ancient cult called the Illuminati that is at work in the modern world and plotting against the Catholic Church. Based on Simon Cox's book, Illuminating Angels & Demons, this fascinating two-hour documentary explores the question of whether the Illuminati still exists. This is also a visually stunning travelogue that guides viewers through the ancient streets and artwork of Rome in its quest to find the facts behind Brown's fiction
The above "documentary" is on A&E right now, and will be on again on the 27th at 10 am.
Look - why don't we just make Dan Brown Pope and president and relax and go with the flow.
That would be news to Copernicus, since he was a Catholic priest.
http://justus.anglican.org/resources/bio/165.html
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04352b.htm
Naw...let's make R.A. Wilson 'Supreme Leader of the Universe' and "Immanentize the eschaton" instead......;D
Isn't it all the Joooowish Bankers fault?
A man named Jim Marrs is one of the "historians" featured.
Historical fact has been so diluted with fake archeology
by fake universities truth can no longer be verified, even
if it was possible, the morons living in the US would only
accept what they want to. When a people reject what is true and right they forfiet their continued existence.
Europe is a perfect example.
Say what???
This sort of gibberish is an excellent example of why truth and falsehood have become inextricably entangled in the minds of so many. When we abandon God, we not only lose our love for the truth but also the ability to discern it. I think G.K. Chesterton said it best when he wrote that ".....when man ceases to believe in the one, true God, he doesn't just believe in nothing. He believes in anything".
I believe this goes a long way to explaining the lemming-like rush of the hoi-polloi after Brown's baloney and other post-Christian tripe like Harry Potter. We no longer love the truth and rush headlong after fables, conspiracy theories and New Age mumbo-jumbo including witchcraft and the occult.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Marrs
Jim Marrs
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Jim Marrs (born December 5, 1943 in Fort Worth, Texas) is a news reporter, college teacher, and author of books and articles on conspiracy theories.
He has been a news reporter in the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex and has taught a class on the Kennedy Assassination at University of Texas at Arlington.
Marrs' books include:
The War on Freedom (ISBN 0060549351) (2003: Book on the 9/11 attacks)
Rule by Secrecy: The Hidden History That Connects the Trilateral Commission, the Freemasons, and the Great
Pyramids (ISBN 0060931841) (2001: Book on secret societies)
PSI Spies (ISBN 1588790231) (2000: Book on remote viewing)
Alien Agenda (ISBN 0061096865) (1998: Book on UFOs)
Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy (ISBN 0881846481) (1990: Book on the Kennedy Assassination; a source text for Oliver Stone's JFK)
Sorry to bring you into this. ;-)
Ya know, when people start giving me a bunch of flack about the Church being anti-science, I think about these words from our Lord Jesus Christ:
"I have given them thy word, and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world; as I also am not of the world.
I pray not that thou shouldst take them out of the world, but that thou shouldst keep them from evil.
They are not of the world, as I also am not of the world.
Sanctify them in truth. Thy word is truth."
While scientists get themselves wrapped up about microbes, evolution, the planets, etc... Christians are more concerned with the spiritual, not the material. Our thinking is from above, their's is centered on earth.
Let them mock us and call us fools. Fine, for the wise have become fools and we are fools for Christ's sake.
Just my two cents worth.
No, Bob Dobbs. Church of the Sub-Genius rocks.
Excellent post!
We come to God in faith, not knowledge.
When people say that Christianity is anti-science, they are just flinging dung. Christianity just puts faith in Christ as number #1, and everything else secondary. Science isn't bad, just don't put it over faith in Christ.
Atheists/Darwinists/etc. want to "know" God before they will accept Him. The unfortunate part of that, is that they will bow before the "proof" after they are dead, and then it will be too late.
Sincerely
Very true, it's the case of the clay shouting back to the potter, "How did you do this or didn't do it? I'm going to figure you out and if I can't, you don't exist because my "science" says so."
Your faith is so shaky that you're offended by a fictional book? Don't go to Wal-Mart then.
Should Wal-Mart not carry books that are fictional and present a different view of religion that might confuse people? If that is the case, then Wal-Mart had better stop carrying Bibles and Christian devotionals to keep from offending Muslims, atheists, or any other non-Christian religions who look at Christianity the way you are looking at this.
I don't shop at Walmart anyway and I refuse to ever go again. Stupid store ruined a nice little neighborhood around here. As far as I'm concerned the whole mess can go to the devil.
You do know that Wikipedia is not a good reference source? The use of Wikipedia as a reference is forbidden in the English Department of The University of Oklahoma Comp I and II classes because the info is not verified and the info is written by almost anyone that wants to write something up.
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