How did this thread even get on the first page? The last posters time stamp was made april 12th


Either way, interesting read... typical bible bashing... it might be true who knows, but still this guy is missing the point, just like most people do.

The fact is it doesn't matter if this is authentic.

It doesn't matter if Jesus didn't actually exist.

It doesn't matter if Jesus was actually a pirate or an alien... He could have been a pink elephant, it still doesn't matter.

What does matter (REGARDLESS OF WHERE IT CAME FROM!!) is the message in the book.

Love your fellow man as you love yourself... in that you also love God as yourself.

Open your eyes people...

Love is the path...

And you don't need a book to see that truth.

Originally posted by undo


how odd that the author of the article thinks "christians" hate jews, as a whole. this is so confusing. on one side you have people yelling and shouting about christians being zionists and protectors of israeli interests, and on the other, christians being nazis and haters of israelis and their interests. could it be that historically, christians, just like any other sector of the population, are individuals who all have their own take on the past? is it possible?
me wonders.

Yes, Undo, I think that's the nub of the issue... Some people don't get that Christians are individuals, people who have their own take on the past - and the present!
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Originally posted by Sigismundus
'Oh, what great Riches this Christ Fable hath brought to us. Yea, it hath served our Purposes very well indeed... '

-- Pope Leo X (1475 - 1521) [aka Giovanni Lorenzo di Medici]

Kind of says it all, doesn't it?

No, it actually says nothing, as this "startling quote" has been proven false. The atheist hero Dawkins, and his buddies got egg over their smug shining faces with it...

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Originally posted by Sigismundus

Can you actually PROVE that Pope Leo X did NOT say (albeit in Italian...) how 'that Myth of Christ was very profitable for us '

I googled the phrase, and no not right now, I can't. But I have read about it before and seen that it's a deliberate misinterpretation, that all the professional atheists leapt on with glee.
You use David Yallop's book as a source? Ma dai!
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I think this whole thing really threatens the Catholic church. A lot of things did, da vinci's code, but still... there she stands in Vatican City

Kendrick himself refuses to reveal how he got a copy. "Let's just say, don’t bet against its authenticity," he said.

Oh, so were supposed to "trust" him? So he hates the bible lying and saying to trust it but he does the same? It is a bit suspicious as to how he would get this document, and so just saying "trust me" is not very trustworthy.