Posted on 05/09/2006 4:18:05 PM PDT by Frank Sheed
>>>>>>>>>Da Vinci Code Hoax Ping!!!!!!!!!<<<<<<<<<<<<<
Ping!
"Fake but accurate." Why should we be surprised?
Inspector Reynaud: "Rick, I'm shocked, shocked that there is gambling going on in this establishment!"
Waiter: "Inspector, wait! Here are your winnings!"
;-o)
Casablanca
There's a reason why Brown's book is considered a work of fiction.
True story:
I was having a conversation with a 20-something a few years back and I mentioned Martin Luther. She responded that he was really a charismatic guy and that it was a shame he got shot. I paused and said that I was speaking about THE Martin Luther and not Martin Luther King who was named after him. Then I asked if she had heard of Martin Luther or knew about the Protestant Reformation. She just stared at me blankly and then said something to the effect that she was not very good in current events.
F
. . . hope you met her slinging fries at MackyD's, and not taking your pulse in a doctor's office . . .
For some people (many? most?), 15 years ago is ancient history.
Just a product of today's gummint schools, I surmise
Your post is chilling! This next generation is just plain frightening.
Fiction captures the times, and Pagels has had influence far beyond academia, because she feeds the hunger of persons deprived of faith in Christianity with a kind of substitute for it. They no longer believe in religious truth, and her "truthiness" to them is good enough. She convinces them that they understand the gnostics when they are incapable of understand Irenaeus. Pagels falsely tells us that the bishop had power to suppress when he actually had no such thing.
Good article. Not mentioned is that Elaine Pagels came out of the "feminist phony scholarship" world that has never, ever been challenged, anymore than the "black phony scholarship" world, which contained black university professors who taught that the Egyptians were secretly sub-Saharan Africans and that the world was divided into the Ice People (whites) and the Sun People (blacks).
In the phony scholarship world, the fundamental assumption is of a parallel history that has been covered up and has been left to the phony scholar alone to reveal.
If you start with the assumption that known history is a cover-up, naturally you're going to produce some bizarre results. But other people in your particular discipline are so intimidated by your PC credentials that they are afraid to challenge you and think it better to quietly ignore your "finds," which were arrived at by, at best, leaps of logic and at worst, intentional manipulation of sources.
Pagels is just doing the same-old same-old "feminist scholarship" routine, which is why nobody even expects her to tell the truth.
*She is a liar doing the work of the Devil, And, YIPEE, some great work by a Jebbie!!!!
She was a history major at Notre Dame
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< tin foil hat > . . . maybe the faculty at ND have concealed the existence of the Reformation from their students . . . nah . . . < /tin foil hat >
Seriously, that is frightening. She must be doing "feminist history" or some such bunk.
I was a history major myself . . . but my Scotch Presbyterian grandparents made sure I knew what the Reformation was in my cradle (I may be the only Episcopalian child who ever received a copy of the Westminster Catechism at Confirmation . . . ) They would have a collective Calvinist Cow if they knew we had Gone Over to Rome . ..
a mid-sentence shift of 34 chapters backwards through the cited text
She should be disciplined for this.
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