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Originally posted by shmick25
Of course the vatican holds heaps of materials from many past cultures and school of thought.. that is why the RCC has embraced so many of them.
Unfortunately, there would be nothing there that would refute what the Bible already talks about, as a matter of fact, it would just enforce it. That is why it is kept so secret, else the RCC would loose its power.
Originally posted by m0rbid
Haha, I hadn't heard about the pornography rumors, but it wouldn't really surprised me if it was true. We hear about so many catholic priests in sexual scandals, why would it be any different at the Vatican?
What I'm wondering, is how much of the books (and other various objects) that they hold in their restricted access library, could be considered (by today standards) illegally aquired?
70 % ? 90%?
[edit on 1-1-2005 by m0rbid]
Originally posted by Flange Gasket
Lots of cool stuff is in there, no doubt, but it's worth considering that a library of 215,000 books was carefully chosen from the Vatican Library by Napoleon before embarking on his invasion of Egypt in 1798.
The Grand Orient Lodge de Paris probably holds more of the esoteric treasures of the Vatican library now than the Vatican Library does...
Originally posted by I See You
Why should any of those books/relics be secrets and kept from the public? If they are so confident of their religion then let the truth be known. Obvioulsy it won't help them but hurt them which is why they do not share. With more and more people fleeing from religion/god(s), you would think they would pull something to bring people back.