I am very sad that I did not find this out until after Conspiracy Theories Month, but now having found it, I can't not share it, because it's just too insane to keep to myself.( Read more... )
The Bible is an excellent example of occult literature. The real satanic conspiracy took place in the fourth century when early Christianity was attacked by the power brokers who crafted trinitiarian dogma. Your friend is barking up the wrong tree.
Haha. The "Gnosticism is the real Christianity!" lie never gets old, does it? I had a professor once who was obsessed with Elaine Pagels' "scholarship" and took every opportunity to bash the Church.
It's funny, though, that the Gnostics were recognized as a heresy as early as the second century, and that the supposed "artificial" elements grafted onto the "pure" Gnostic Church by those evil orthodox bastards, such as the hierarchy, the importance of Scripture and Tradition, the Eucharist, the Trinity, and a distinct lack of Gnosticism, are all attested by the end of the second century. Moreover, the line of bishops in many of the early churches can credibly be traced back to the beginning, and none of them were Gnostics.
But, yeah, Constantine's Sword! The papacy! The Councils! It was all a conspiracy to hide the truth, and Mary Magdalen really was the 13th Apostle!
I wouldn't mock her scholarly efforts with the finger-quote treatment. You may not agree with how others present her work, but she's no academic slouch.
And this guy, ladies and gentlemen, is going to be a attorney. You know, we joke about conspiracy theorists, we make fun of the kooky idiots who believe the Illuminati actually exist and the New World Order is real. It becomes less amusing, and more frightening, when you realize that some of the people who believe these things aren't, like I said, random nuts on the street, but are professionals, are politicians, are pastors. Are people, therefore, with actual power and influence.
I dunno that the last sentence actually follows. I know they tell all of us aspiring attorneys that we're going to be big important folks, but for every President Obama there are a dozen Orly Taitzes.
he genuinely believes that there is a giant worldwide occult conspiracy whose aim is the destruction of True Christianity™Shhhhhhh, we're trying to keep it quiet
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"Christianity is responsible for more murders, rapes, torture, and genocides than any other group across the history of the entire planet."
I dunno...I think Stalin and Mao might together win the prize there. And law folks are so soaked with alcohol that indeed their sense of reality is sseriously whack. lol Seriously in a law school of around 400 students I think there are maybe ten students who don't drink (i.e. nine devout Mormons and me).
There actually is a case where Christianity can be said to have done this. The key aspect of this is the Taiping Rebellion, outmatched in simple human bloodshed only by the Second World War and the bloodiest religious war in all of human history. But that war happened at the same time as the US Civil War and so we Yanks usually forget about it.
I was absolutely shocked at the end of my first final 1L year when my compatriots produced vodka and mixers and started getting drunk in the exam room. Now, my journal has organized, intramural beer pong teams, and I no longer bat an eye at the drunken folks showing up and sleeping through classes.
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It's funny, though, that the Gnostics were recognized as a heresy as early as the second century, and that the supposed "artificial" elements grafted onto the "pure" Gnostic Church by those evil orthodox bastards, such as the hierarchy, the importance of Scripture and Tradition, the Eucharist, the Trinity, and a distinct lack of Gnosticism, are all attested by the end of the second century. Moreover, the line of bishops in many of the early churches can credibly be traced back to the beginning, and none of them were Gnostics.
But, yeah, Constantine's Sword! The papacy! The Councils! It was all a conspiracy to hide the truth, and Mary Magdalen really was the 13th Apostle!
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I wouldn't mock her scholarly efforts with the finger-quote treatment. You may not agree with how others present her work, but she's no academic slouch.
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I dunno that the last sentence actually follows. I know they tell all of us aspiring attorneys that we're going to be big important folks, but for every President Obama there are a dozen Orly Taitzes.
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Personally, what's the big deal? They're masons. They lay bricks. I like brick buildings because termites don't. Let them have their cabal-ish fun.
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group across the history of the entire planet."
I dunno...I think Stalin and Mao might together win the prize there. And law folks are so soaked with alcohol that indeed their sense of reality is sseriously whack. lol Seriously in a law school of around 400 students I think there are maybe ten students who don't drink (i.e. nine devout Mormons and me).
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