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• Yep, nothing new (Score:2)

  by jdavidb (1361)

  Brown merely recycled a good bit of vintage conspiracy theories and a plot I know I have heard before

  Thank you. It is gratifying to me to hear that people outside of the religious context I'm familiar with are able to detect this. This book is absolutely nothing new, and I'd add it's neither factual nor interesting, to boot. I eagerly anticipate it blowing over as previous incarnations have and as it already appears to be doing.

  And this is odd, because there are few who enjoy a good thumping of Bi

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  • Re:Yep, nothing new (Score:2)

    by davorg (18)

    This book is absolutely nothing new,

    No argument from me there.

    and I'd add it's neither factual nor interesting, to boot.

    Well, we can debate its factual accuracy, but I doubt anything useful will be added to either side of the argument :)

    But I can't agree that the theory isn't interesting. Whether it's true or not, I find the idea that the church has consistantly lied about its own origins for so long to be completely fascinating.

    I eagerly anticipate it blowing over as previous incarnations have an
    • Re:Yep, nothing new (Score:2)

      by pudge (1) on 2005.01.11 18:12 (#37377) Homepage Journal

      I don't know much about what the Catholic Church says its history is, and I don't really care. I know that there are very few lies to be found in the history of the church taught in scholarly Protestant circles (partially, I suspect, because much of that history is also Catholic history, and the Protestants don't mind making the Catholics look bad, when it is appropriate :-).

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