{"id":4362,"date":"2006-02-22T13:58:29","date_gmt":"2006-02-22T13:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/02\/not-just-the-religious-fanatics.html"},"modified":"2006-02-22T13:58:29","modified_gmt":"2006-02-22T13:58:29","slug":"not-just-the-religious-fanatics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/02\/not-just-the-religious-fanatics.html","title":{"rendered":"Not just the religious fanatics"},"content":{"rendered":"

Science-types have their issues with Dan Brown as well!<\/a><\/p>\n

(Although John Farrell is both<\/em> a religious fanatic and a science-type…)<\/p>\n

I gave a talk at Loyola College in Baltimore a year and a half ago, and afterwords, a sort of old Jesuit came up to me with a pad of paper and said, "I’m a physics professor and I’ve made a list of all of the science errors in Angels and Demons…." <\/em>He didn’t ask if I"d like to see it, but I trusted him anyway.  Dan Brown: All Purpose Purveyor of Ignorance. <\/p>\n

Shea says we get the bishops we deserve. I say we get the bestselling writers we deserve…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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