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Touching the past |
Touching the past
http://www.jg-tc.com/articles/2006/05/10/features/feat104.txt
Journal Gazette and Times-Courier - Charleston,IL,USA
[excerpt]
Q: Do such books as “The DaVinci Code” and its upcoming movie help or hurt
such discoveries as yours?
DeConick: “There are two sides to this. On the one hand, it is thrilling
because people who otherwise wouldn’t be exposed to alternative knowledge
and ‘histories’ are. People who didn’t know that there are more Gospels
than those in the New Testament read ‘The DaVinci Code’ and suddenly begin
to want to know more about these. So this is wonderful.
“But (and this is a big ‘but’) because Dan Brown wrote in the beginning of
his book that all information about the texts and rituals and history were
accurate, people have been duped into thinking that he has written
historical fiction that they can trust.
“In fact, Dan Brown has not based his book on scholarly knowledge and does
not have the simplest facts straight. Because Americans have been taught
nothing about the history of religions in public schools (a result of the
separation of church and state), unless they have taken college courses on
the subject or worked hard to educate themselves by reading scholarly
publications, Americans are largely ignorant about the history of
Christianity. So they have had no way to critically judge Dan Brown’s
account, and many think it represents scholarly knowledge. It does not.
[end excerpt]
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You are invited to check out the following:
The Rise of the Theocratic States of America
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocracy.htm
American Theocrats - Past and Present
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocrats.htm
The Constitutional Principle: Separation of Church and State
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html
[and to join the discussion group for the above site and/or Separation of
Church and State in general, listed below]
HRSepCnS · Hampton Roads [Virginia] SepChurch&State
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HRSepCnS/
[Its not just Hampton Roads folks who are members, there are members from
all over the US and a couple from overseas as well]
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.. . . You can't understand a phrase such as "Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of religion" by syllogistic reasoning. Words
take their meaning from social as well as textual contexts, which is why "a
page of history is worth a volume of logic." New York Trust Co. v. Eisner,
256 U.S. 345, 349, 41 S.Ct. 506, 507, 65 L.Ed. 963 (1921) (Holmes, J.).
Sherman v. Community Consol. Dist. 21, 980 F.2d 437, 445 (7th Cir. 1992)
.. . .
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USAF LT. COL (Ret) Buffman (Glen P. Goffin) wrote
"You pilot always into an unknown future;
facts are your only clue. Get the facts!"
That philosophy 'snipit' helped to get me, and my crew, through a good
many combat missions and far too many scary, inflight, emergencies.
It has also played a significant role in helping me to expose the
plethora of radical Christian propaganda and lies that we find at
almost every media turn.
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THE CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLE:
SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html
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