USCCB has posted a website called Jesus Decoded to deal with the Davinci Code. For those of you who just arrived to this planet, The Davinci Code posits that Jesus was not divine, was married to Mary Magdalene and fathered children. Further, the Holy Grail refers to Mary, not a chalice that caught the blood of Christ when Longinus pierced his side. To keep this ("the biggest secret in history") the Vatican dispatches an Opus Dei "monk" who is both albino and a practiced assassin. No, seriously. That's what it says. Further, Mr. Brown says, with a straight face, that the book is grounded in fact. I guess somewhere along the line missionaries returned from Japan and passed along the ninja skills they learned while converting the heathen assassins during the Edo period.
That state of the DE blogosphere
I've been holding off on commenting on the imbroiglio over a posting at DelawareLiberal for Veteran's Day for several reasons. First and foremost is the situation at home (more on that later) but also because I wanted to get some distance from it to be sure I was seeing things clearly. I've been reading DV's stuff since before he joined Jason on his site and I've noticed a change in tone which seems to have accelerated of late. I enjoyed going to the old site because it was one the few places I could engage someone with different ideas than mine without things crashing headlong into Godwin's law within 3 posts. In short, DV acted in good faith and was rather deferential to his visitors which I greatly appreciated. Since pulling the old blog and posting on DelwareLiberal, I've noticed that ground has eroded rather quickly. I've never agreed with anything Jason posted but found him a book end to DelaThought's knee jerk partisan right wingery. Fi...
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