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The Da Vinci Hoax: A Tour de Distortion
Breakpoint with Charles Colson ^
| March 8, 2006
| Charles Colson
Posted on 03/08/2006 6:14:03 AM PST by Mr. Silverback
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To: Antoninus
"If it's "just a novel", how do you explain the fact that many people have told me that it "made them think."
Uffda! A book that makes people think! Ban it!
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posted on
03/09/2006 6:31:10 AM PST
by
MineralMan
(godless atheist)
To: Antoninus
"Of course, as an evangelical atheist, I wouldn't expect you to do anything but applaud an attack on the Catholic Church."
You're an evangelical atheist? How strange. [grin]
Actually, I never attack the Catholic Church. In fact, I have defeneded it in many threads. I am an atheist, but I'm not an evangelical one, whatever that might be. I think people should follow whatever religion they can believe in. I've just found none that fit that category for me.
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posted on
03/09/2006 6:33:04 AM PST
by
MineralMan
(godless atheist)
To: Antoninus
I'd say that rampant child rape among the priesthood has been more damaging to the institution than this book/movie.
To: ThePoliticalDookie
"I'd say that rampant child rape among the priesthood has been more damaging to the institution than this book/movie."
There's been no rampant child rape among the priesthood. There have been some cases, but they represent a very tiny minority of priests. You might have a look at Google. You'll find lots of protestant pastors and youth ministers doing the same thing. I doubt that the numbers are any different.
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posted on
03/09/2006 7:09:49 AM PST
by
MineralMan
(godless atheist)
To: theFIRMbss
YOU LIE. YOU DIE. If that cover had come out during the Clinton Administration, the Secret Service would have had to open a threat investigation.
85
posted on
03/09/2006 7:15:00 AM PST
by
steve-b
(A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom)
To: Travis McGee; Antoninus
Travis, your book makes the "DaVinci Code" look like a childishly prurient*, disorganized "Dick and Jane." This plagiarist is no writer. He's a church vandal.
*The "sex" parts read like outtakes from "Sex in the City," which leads me to surmise that our "DaVinci" author plays for the wrong team. My offer to kick the crap out of him still stands, but I'll wear HAZMAT gear.
86
posted on
03/09/2006 8:44:43 AM PST
by
Kenny Bunk
(OK, how bad we hurt for 2006? Who we running in 2008?)
To: MineralMan
Are you kidding me? Boston...Miami...there is not only a wealth of documentation but a systematic refusal by the Church bureacracy to address it...they have even shuffled known pedophiles around the county to repeat the abuses. Denial is not going to solve the problem...
To: Mr. Silverback
First, I'm with you.
Sometimes, you must feel like you are beating your head against a wall.
88
posted on
03/09/2006 9:03:11 AM PST
by
Travis McGee
(--- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com ---)
To: Miss Marple
89
posted on
03/09/2006 9:07:53 AM PST
by
Travis McGee
(--- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com ---)
To: Arkinsaw
Yes, the book says "fiction" on its spine.
But then the author and many "experts" appear over and over on daytime TV (wink wink) to explain to the gullible that in reality....it's all true!
(...they just had to change the names and places to protect themselves from the "dark forces" blablabla....)
And millions of muddle-headed folks lap it up like warm milk, and the big lie sinks into the general consciousness as truth.
90
posted on
03/09/2006 9:11:34 AM PST
by
Travis McGee
(--- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com ---)
To: Antoninus
Thank you for taking the time to go through this thread reply by reply.
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posted on
03/09/2006 9:14:00 AM PST
by
Travis McGee
(--- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com ---)
To: Kenny Bunk
It's pretty discouraging, consistently watching pap hokum novels promoted and hyped like beer, and turning into runaway best sellers.
92
posted on
03/09/2006 9:16:54 AM PST
by
Travis McGee
(--- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com ---)
To: Antoninus; Travis McGee; Miss Marple
The steady, "apochrypha-apochrypha-apochrypha" of Anne's powerful Electric Word Processor ominously began to sound a tortured,
"apochrypha-queep-apochrypha-queep."
93
posted on
03/09/2006 9:38:07 AM PST
by
Kenny Bunk
(OK, how bad we hurt for 2006? Who we running in 2008?)
To: Travis McGee
If any book needs to be made a movie it's yours!
94
posted on
03/09/2006 11:34:36 AM PST
by
vrwc0915
To: vrwc0915
Yeah, I can really see that happening.
(Not.)
95
posted on
03/09/2006 12:13:35 PM PST
by
Travis McGee
(--- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com ---)
To: Travis McGee
96
posted on
03/09/2006 12:25:38 PM PST
by
vrwc0915
To: vrwc0915
I wish I was a faster writer.
97
posted on
03/09/2006 12:35:54 PM PST
by
Travis McGee
(--- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com ---)
To: Travis McGee
98
posted on
03/09/2006 12:39:38 PM PST
by
vrwc0915
To: Arkinsaw
If someone were to read "The Lord of the Rings" and think that this was an accurate history of some long ago time because Tolkien modeled The Shire after stereotypical rural England.....despite the word "fiction" on the spine....I wouldn't waste my breath trying to convince them otherwise. This because they would in fact be too dumb to live, much less worth spending time worrying about. Since I don't honestly believe you're stupid enough to think that's a rational argument I must assume you think I am. Nobody reading about middle earth presumes middle earth exists, any more than anyone reading about Arrakis thinks Arrakis exists. But people reading about Italy know Italy exists. Therefore, they assume the plot is fiction, but not the place.
The fact is that 99% of reasonable people know darn well what the word "fiction" means. The other 1% need lithium anyway and are not worth freaking out over.
As said by one who knows? Many people don't even know the evening news is opinion. How do you know what they think about the historical or locational aspects of a book that is about a real place and time?
Shalom.
99
posted on
03/09/2006 7:18:07 PM PST
by
ArGee
(The Ring must not be allowed to fall into Hillary's hands!)
To: Miss Marple
May G-d bless and comfort you during this time.
Shalom.
100
posted on
03/09/2006 7:20:09 PM PST
by
ArGee
(The Ring must not be allowed to fall into Hillary's hands!)
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