{"id":2326,"date":"2006-05-07T08:08:35","date_gmt":"2006-05-07T08:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/05\/mail-bag-1.html"},"modified":"2006-05-07T08:08:35","modified_gmt":"2006-05-07T08:08:35","slug":"mail-bag-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/05\/mail-bag-1.html","title":{"rendered":"Mail Bag"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<div>Where is your proof that what was said in the DA VINCI CODE&nbsp; is wrong and what about the fact that there are missing gospels from the bible or what about the FACT that the bible is missing parts of Jesus&#8217; life. And don&#8217;t tell me that there was no witch burnings or killings by the Vatican. Christianity is a MAN made religion and also the bible was written by MEN AND NOT GOD as everyone would like to think. You are a bible thumper and a bigot and you have no knowledge of what you speak or you would have proof. In the time period in which Jesus who by the way is a Jew, was that celibacy was illegal and that the fathers duty was to find a suitable wife for his son. You want to know what my thoughts are: the Crucifixion of Christ was the very first witch hunt. Christianity is nothing but a bully religion that has for way to long dominated the world and they have tried to kill any other religion there is out there.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div>So remember that when you start sprouting off your filth you need to have proof to back up your theories.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where is your proof that what was said in the DA VINCI CODE&nbsp; is wrong and what about the fact that there are missing gospels from the bible or what about the FACT that the bible is missing parts of Jesus&#8217; life. And don&#8217;t tell me that there was no witch burnings or killings by&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Mail Bag - Via Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/05\/mail-bag-1.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mail Bag - Via Media\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Where is your proof that what was said in the DA VINCI CODE&nbsp; is wrong and what about the fact that there are missing gospels from the bible or what about the FACT that the bible is missing parts of Jesus&#8217; life. 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