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"johac" |
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13 Mar 2006 01:44:07 AM |
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Bishops post Web site disputing "Da Vinci Code" |
Laughable. If you go to the site it starts off "Catholic Belief
versus Modern Fiction" The irony in that statement is unbearable.
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Bishops post Web site disputing "Da Vinci Code"
Fri Mar 10, 2:34 PM ET
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops took aim at "The Da Vinci Code"
on Friday, launching a Web site that disputes central points of the
best-selling novel.
The site, http://www.jesusdecoded.com, denies one point on which the
novel turns, saying the New Testament "does not offer any support for
speculation about Jesus' being married or having a child."
The novel by Dan Brown centres on the idea that Jesus married Mary
Magdalene, they had children who survived and married into a line of
French kings, that the lineage continues today and a secret society
based in France aims to restore the lineage to the thrones of Europe.
The bishops' group said in a statement that the Web site "presents
authentic Catholic teaching about Jesus and the origins of Christianity
and corrects misinformation that appears in current popular media."
The site disavows the book's notion that the Leonardo Da Vinci work "The
Last Supper" shows Mary Magdalene bending towards Jesus.
"What this novel does to Leonardo's Last Supper, it does to Christianity
as such," according to the site's introduction. "It asks people to
consider equivalent to the mainstream Christian tradition quite a few
odd claims.
"Some are merely distortions of hypotheses advanced by serious scholars
who do serious research. Others, however, are inaccurate or false."
In a section on the art mentioned in the novel, an art historian wrote:
"Along with trashing Christianity, Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code is a
veritable museum of errors where Renaissance art is concerned."
A copyright trial is currently under way in a London court based on
accusations that Brown borrowed research from the work of two historians
to write his book without acknowledgement.
A paperback edition of the novel is due out this month, with a run of 5
million copies.
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John Hachmann aa #1782
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities"
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| User: "J Forbes" |
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| Title: Re: Bishops post Web site disputing "Da Vinci Code" |
13 Mar 2006 02:13:47 AM |
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johac wrote:
The novel by Dan Brown centres on the idea that Jesus married Mary
Magdalene, they had children who survived and married into a line of
French kings, that the lineage continues today and a secret society
based in France aims to restore the lineage to the thrones of Europe.
Oh....that's what it's about....thanks, now I won't have to read it.
Jim
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| User: "johac" |
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| Title: Re: Bishops post Web site disputing "Da Vinci Code" |
14 Mar 2006 12:47:44 AM |
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In article <1142237626.954130.106380@i39g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
"J Forbes" <jforbspam@fastmail.fm> wrote:
johac wrote:
The novel by Dan Brown centres on the idea that Jesus married Mary
Magdalene, they had children who survived and married into a line of
French kings, that the lineage continues today and a secret society
based in France aims to restore the lineage to the thrones of Europe.
Oh....that's what it's about....thanks, now I won't have to read it.
You won't have to. It's coming out as a movie in a few weeks. I don't
intend to see it or read it either.
Jim
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John Hachmann aa #1782
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities"
-Voltaire
Contact - Throw a .net over the .com
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| User: "georgann" |
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| Title: Re: Bishops post Web site disputing "Da Vinci Code" |
14 Mar 2006 03:58:48 PM |
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The novel by Dan Brown centres on the idea that Jesus married Mary
Magdalene, they had children who survived and married into a line of French
kings, that the lineage continues today and a secret society based in France
aims to restore the lineage to the thrones of Europe.
Oh....that's what it's about....thanks, now I won't have to read it.
johac wrote:
You won't have to. It's coming out as a movie in a few weeks. I don't intend
to see it or read it either.
georgann (forgiven since 33 AD) wrote:
Don't you think its curious that the author selected the most elite of the
French to be in the line of God incarnate? At least this guy projected how
the French feel about themselves.
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«´¨`·.¸¸ ¸¸.·´¨ `»
(confounding the nonsense of Gnosticism with one verse)
John 14:9 ... "He who has seen Me has seen the Father..."
- Jesus Christ
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| User: "johac" |
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| Title: Re: Bishops post Web site disputing "Da Vinci Code" |
15 Mar 2006 12:06:57 AM |
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In article <C03CA6C7.A38EB%chenault@mindspring.com>,
georgann <chenault@mindspring.com> wrote:
The novel by Dan Brown centres on the idea that Jesus married Mary
Magdalene, they had children who survived and married into a line of
French
kings, that the lineage continues today and a secret society based in
France
aims to restore the lineage to the thrones of Europe.
Oh....that's what it's about....thanks, now I won't have to read it.
johac wrote:
You won't have to. It's coming out as a movie in a few weeks. I don't
intend
to see it or read it either.
georgann (forgiven since 33 AD) wrote:
Don't you think its curious that the author selected the most elite of the
French to be in the line of God incarnate? At least this guy projected how
the French feel about themselves.
Well I haven't read the book, although I've heard enough about it, but
what do you have against the French?
--
John Hachmann aa #1782
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities"
-Voltaire
Contact - Throw a .net over the .com
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| User: "Michael Gray" |
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| Title: Re: Bishops post Web site disputing "Da Vinci Code" |
15 Mar 2006 04:55:49 AM |
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On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 22:06:57 -0800, johac <jhachmann@sbcglobal.com>
wrote:
- Refer: <jhachmann-6ABCC0.22065714032006@news.giganews.com>
In article <C03CA6C7.A38EB%chenault@mindspring.com>,
georgann <chenault@mindspring.com> wrote:
The novel by Dan Brown centres on the idea that Jesus married Mary
Magdalene, they had children who survived and married into a line of
French
kings, that the lineage continues today and a secret society based in
France
aims to restore the lineage to the thrones of Europe.
Oh....that's what it's about....thanks, now I won't have to read it.
johac wrote:
You won't have to. It's coming out as a movie in a few weeks. I don't
intend
to see it or read it either.
georgann (forgiven since 33 AD) wrote:
Don't you think its curious that the author selected the most elite of the
French to be in the line of God incarnate? At least this guy projected how
the French feel about themselves.
Well I haven't read the book, although I've heard enough about it, but
what do you have against the French?
Her crutch.
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| User: "johac" |
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| Title: Re: Bishops post Web site disputing "Da Vinci Code" |
16 Mar 2006 12:10:12 AM |
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In article <9lsf12ho91ubm4a159r81rhepkleqciqps@4ax.com>,
Michael Gray <fleetg@newsguy.spam.com> wrote:
On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 22:06:57 -0800, johac <jhachmann@sbcglobal.com>
wrote:
- Refer: <jhachmann-6ABCC0.22065714032006@news.giganews.com>
In article <C03CA6C7.A38EB%chenault@mindspring.com>,
georgann <chenault@mindspring.com> wrote:
The novel by Dan Brown centres on the idea that Jesus married Mary
Magdalene, they had children who survived and married into a line of
French
kings, that the lineage continues today and a secret society based in
France
aims to restore the lineage to the thrones of Europe.
Oh....that's what it's about....thanks, now I won't have to read it.
johac wrote:
You won't have to. It's coming out as a movie in a few weeks. I don't
intend
to see it or read it either.
georgann (forgiven since 33 AD) wrote:
Don't you think its curious that the author selected the most elite of the
French to be in the line of God incarnate? At least this guy projected how
the French feel about themselves.
Well I haven't read the book, although I've heard enough about it, but
what do you have against the French?
Her crutch.
Trying to list all of georgann's dislikes is like trying to calculate
the last number in a infinite progression.
--
John Hachmann aa #1782
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities"
-Voltaire
Contact - Throw a .net over the .com
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| User: "ShadowWolf" |
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| Title: Re: Bishops post Web site disputing "Da Vinci Code" |
20 Mar 2006 02:34:49 AM |
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J Forbes wrote:
johac wrote:
The novel by Dan Brown centres on the idea that Jesus married Mary
Magdalene, they had children who survived and married into a line of
French kings, that the lineage continues today and a secret society
based in France aims to restore the lineage to the thrones of Europe.
Oh....that's what it's about....thanks, now I won't have to read it.
Jim
And, amazingly, it's all a work of fiction. But people want to believe it's
fact, and hence it's become the worlds new big conspiracy. Astonishingly,
people point to "The Priory of Zion" as proof that it's got some basis in
reality. Well, I just love popping that bubble. "The Priory of Zion" was
registered as a social order in this century and was done so by a a
megalomaniac. The papers that turned up in the French National Library were
put together by the man who founded the order and a close friend, then
inserted into the records. This was done in order to try and make the
"Priory" look like it had a long and illustrious history.
ShadowWolf
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| User: "eerok" |
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| Title: Re: Bishops post Web site disputing "Da Vinci Code" |
13 Mar 2006 10:58:17 AM |
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johac wrote:
[...]
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Bishops post Web site disputing "Da Vinci Code"
[...]
A copyright trial is currently under way in a London court based on
accusations that Brown borrowed research from the work of two historians
to write his book without acknowledgement.
Since when is "borrowing research" copyright infringement? I
think the trend toward "intellectual property" is getting out
of hand. The expression in text form is copyrightable but the
substance in general is not.
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"The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality."
- George Bernard Shaw
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| User: "Therion Ware" |
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| Title: Re: Bishops post Web site disputing "Da Vinci Code" |
13 Mar 2006 12:39:30 PM |
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On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 11:58:17 -0500 in alt.atheism, eerok (eerok
<eerok@addr.invalid>) said, directing the reply to alt.atheism
johac wrote:
[...]
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Bishops post Web site disputing "Da Vinci Code"
[...]
A copyright trial is currently under way in a London court based on
accusations that Brown borrowed research from the work of two historians
to write his book without acknowledgement.
Since when is "borrowing research" copyright infringement? I
think the trend toward "intellectual property" is getting out
of hand. The expression in text form is copyrightable but the
substance in general is not.
Indeed.
The authors of the "Holy blood...." claim it's history. Since when has
history been copyright?
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