{"id":7234,"date":"2004-05-23T22:19:36","date_gmt":"2004-05-23T22:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2004\/05\/here_we_go_again_1.html"},"modified":"2004-05-23T22:19:36","modified_gmt":"2004-05-23T22:19:36","slug":"here_we_go_again_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2004\/05\/here_we_go_again_1.html","title":{"rendered":"Here we go again"},"content":{"rendered":"

Me in the DMN on That Book.<\/a> <\/p>\n

A new letter to add to my collection:<\/p>\n

The headline was ?Faith? vs. !TRUTH!<\/strong><\/p>\n

\nI have also read “The Da Vinci Code” as well as “Holy Grail, Holy Blood” and “The Templar Revelation.”<\/p>\n

For my own edification would you be kind enough to share with me your academic credentials which qualify you to express your judgments in such public fora that I may weigh your opinions with those of the above referenced authors?<\/p>\n

Or, are you simply a vociferous espousor of the tenets of your “FAITH” that you disagree with the possibly accurate and\/or logical conclusions of scholarly research for the TRUTH?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, I said that I had a BA in history and an MA in Church History, which I know is no match for the honor of being the authors of The Mammoth Book of UFO’s<\/strong>, as is the case of the authors of The Templar Revelation<\/strong>, but you know, you can’t do it all…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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