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First Knights Templar Discovered
Daily Telegraph (UK) ^
| 4-10-2006
Posted on 04/17/2006 2:34:31 PM PDT by blam
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To: Guenevere
woops!No I did not. Still kind of confusing, though.
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posted on
11/24/2007 5:19:24 AM PST
by
Jimmy Valentine
(DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
To: blam
The Knights Templar still exist.
142
posted on
11/24/2007 5:44:31 AM PST
by
bannie
To: blam
They should be reintered as heroes and among the first Christians to die fighting the Islamic menace.
143
posted on
11/24/2007 6:30:29 AM PST
by
ZULU
(Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts and guns made America great.)
To: newgeezer
144
posted on
11/24/2007 6:31:03 AM PST
by
ZULU
(Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts and guns made America great.)
To: Jimmy Valentine
I think the author is using “first” interchangeably with “earliest,” here.
To: wildbill
I dont know what the problem is with people who attack the writers of these books as long as they are clearly fiction and meant for entertainment. If they blend in some accurate history with the fiction, so much the better.The problem is not with the books. We have had historical fiction as a genre forever. The problem is that with the deterioration of education and the cynical marketing by unscrupulous authors, who deliberately blur the boundaries of what is 'clearly fiction."
Too many people no longer can tell the difference between "accurate history" and fiction, and there is a media echo chamber which profits by encouraging ignorance. Recall how many times the author of daVinci Code was interviewed on TV and acted as if his schlock was a genuine hypothesis. Imagine how many people think the Code is real: millions no doubt.
To: UCANSEE2
one of the dead guys had a newspaper in his backpack. they took the date from that.
headline in the newspaper was “christianity is doomed, withdraw the templars before december”
147
posted on
11/24/2007 7:38:57 AM PST
by
beebuster2000
(choice is not not peace or war, but small war now, or big war later masquerading as peace now.)
To: blam
The Davinci Code has absolutely nothing to do with historical fact. The reporter is as intellectually shallow as oil on a mirror.
148
posted on
11/24/2007 7:40:36 AM PST
by
Redleg Duke
("All gave some, and some gave all!")
To: ApplegateRanch
"I met an 88 degree Mason on a job, once. He couldn't lay a square corner if his life depended on it."Did you give him the 2nd degree? ;^)
149
posted on
11/24/2007 8:29:50 AM PST
by
Cvengr
(Every believer is a grenade. Arrogance is the grenade pin. Pull the pin and fragment your life.)
To: hinckley buzzard
Well, these authors (Berry and Brown) are getting an awful lot of flack here among the literate cognoscenti who should know better.
I never saw Brown blur the line between fiction and truth on any interview. He does point out the factual history he used, but he always states his book and the Code are fiction.
I think the antagonism problem occurs when folks think their religion is being undermined by fictional accounts that question the truth of doctrine or dogma. Of course, that doesn’t happen if they truly have faith in the tenets of their church.
To: MARTIAL MONK
Why? I found it served very little purpose and life was much better after ti was gone!!! :-)
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posted on
11/24/2007 8:34:11 AM PST
by
mad_as_he$$
(Illegal Immigration, a Clear and Present Danger.)
To: cookcounty
Isn’t the “big” mystery supposedly Ren le Chateau?
152
posted on
11/24/2007 8:35:54 AM PST
by
mad_as_he$$
(Illegal Immigration, a Clear and Present Danger.)
To: Jimmy Valentine
sarcophagiSarcophagus... My sister pronounced it sarco-fag-us for many a year. It gave me great pleasure to withhold correction. Every time the word is mentioned (which isn't often), it causes me to giggle... Thanks for the memories!
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posted on
11/24/2007 9:12:33 AM PST
by
roamer_1
(Vote for HuFrudMcRomsonbee -Turn red states purple in 08!)
To: Strategerist
Umberto Eco is as prolific as Stephen King with about ten times the vocabulary.
154
posted on
11/24/2007 9:18:43 AM PST
by
RightWhale
(anti-razors are pro-life)
To: Meadow Muffin
Do a Google search for the thread title and you'll find some other stuff on it. Here's one:
Click Here
155
posted on
11/24/2007 9:38:16 AM PST
by
mass55th
(Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway~~John Wayne)
To: MHGinTN
There's also Temple Church in London, off the beaten path of Fleet Street. I went to visit it in August but it was undergoing renovations and access was closed. I did get a few pictures of the outside. It's the same church that was featured in The Da Vinci Code. Here's the link with a virtual tour of the inside:
Click Here
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posted on
11/24/2007 9:44:54 AM PST
by
mass55th
(Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway~~John Wayne)
To: restornu
157
posted on
11/24/2007 9:46:13 AM PST
by
Cvengr
(Every believer is a grenade. Arrogance is the grenade pin. Pull the pin and fragment your life.)
To: Trajan88
Is it an easier read than Gravity’s Rainbow?
158
posted on
11/24/2007 9:47:46 AM PST
by
Cvengr
(Every believer is a grenade. Arrogance is the grenade pin. Pull the pin and fragment your life.)
To: mnehrling
Thank you. Exactly my first thought. Why tie a verifiable historical find to a fictional novel? There seems almost a pathological desire to make the absurd Da Vinci Code historical.
To: rvoitier
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posted on
11/24/2007 10:15:35 AM PST
by
norton
(deep down inside you know that Fred is your second choice)
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