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Very well JF. Whatever floats your boat, so long as it does.

Again, I think you are taking the book to seriously. It is a work of fiction, for the purposes of entertainment. Dan Brown has done nothing worse than what JRR Tolkien wrought upon the human imagination. Both are writers of fiction, though they do so with different subject matters. Reading...

Now hold your horses my fellows. Da Vinci Code is a work of fiction. That said, there are still several nuggets of truth in his religious references. His descriptions of ancient religious societies and their customs, religious symbology, and the history of religious infrastructure I think you'll...

What does "dubious" mean in this context?

All denominations of Christianity are based around the Bible, but all have their own interpretation of the text. A verse may convey a particular message to one sect; to another the same verse could mean something completely different. That is what DV means by the situation not being that...

Most of the framers of the constitution were Christian, and most of the country's population was, and still is, mostly Christian, but that does not mean that this is a Christian country. If it were intended to be, some note would have been made in the founding document of the nation, the...

No worries Bowser; I think we've adequately kissed and made up. You should work on the kissing though. ; )

Sorry you feel that way Bowser; I don't know what else to tell you. I could show you the times where I have disagreed with DV, but honestly I don't think it's worth the effort. Please do not insult my intelligence; Apparently you don't know what you're talking about. You might read this again:

Hmm? I'm a little surprised that you feel that way... I'll be the first to admit that I admire DV for his ability to conjure and support an argument, and that we share many common beliefs, but that does not mean that I'm his lapdog or something. It is to be expected that we share so many...

And yet we read your texts. Mmm...hypocrisy?

Is anyone familiar with the Treaty of Tripoli? Authored by American diplomat Joel Barlow in 1796, the treaty was sent to the floor of the Senate, June 7, 1797, where it was read aloud in its entirety and unanimously approved. John Adams, haven seen the treaty, signed it and proclaimed it to the...

That's...interesting..but I don't agree with it. While it's entirely possible that predisposed beliefs will influence one's judgments, the same goes for anyone, not just Christians. Christians are just as likely to have a strict interperetation of the law as someone of any other faith or...

Wellll...all that I can tell you is that there are no Christian holidays, only holy days. Christmas and Easter were converted from pagan ones. They were converted so as to appeal to the masses of pagans that they wanted to assimilate and such. Perhaps it was this Constantine headed the movement?

Modern medicine has greatly succeeded in prolonging our life span, but it has not done much at all for the suffering of the terminally ill. We die differently today than we did 50 years ago, because we live so long. Actually, you could easily make the argument that there is more suffering for...

How do you all feel about phyician assisted suicide? For those of you who are unfamiliar with the practice, it is usually when a doctor gives a patient some pills or other such life-ending substance for him or her to take when ready. This is generally for the elderly and terminally ill; those...

...Ah. Oopsy. : )

In the same way, I don't expect you to understand that there is such a possibility: That it is possible to know God and then abandon him.

Hah..you have a tendency to say everything before I have a chance to have a go at it DV. : )

Does anyone know what the history behind St. Patrick's Day is? I'm curious.

I don't think DV is saying that he merely thoroughly studied up on the Christian faith, and I don't think it's right that you make that conclusion about him. You base it on inadequate information, making it more of an assumption than anything else. And probably an incorrect one, though only DV...