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EVDebs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-17-05 06:43 PM
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"Da Vinci Code" Holy Grail isn't Christ's offspring but Ark of Covenant
History Channel show last night spent two hours dancing around this 'hot topic' yet failed to mention the most likely scenario: that of Graham Hancock's book "The Sign and the Seal". This book postulates that the Knights Templar's big secret was the location of the Ark of the Covenant.

This is important since G W Bush and the evangelical dispensationalists Last Days requires that a Third Temple be built; but what goes into that Third Temple ? The answer is what went into the original, the Ark of the Covenant.

Read PBS's Religion and Ethics newsweekly closely about this Third Temle movement:
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week319/cover.html

and also any of the "Left Behind" novels.

You'll see that this clashes with amillenialists views on the rapture as can be seen in Gary Burge's thought provoking article on Christian Zionism at http://www.hcef.org/hcef/index.cfm/ID/159

In the end, Dan Brown's novel doesn't come close to the real life verifiable beliefs that surround this interpretation of the Holy Grail 'steganography' code / open secret.



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PassingFair Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-17-05 06:47 PM
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1. The ark
...is in my BACKYARD!
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RobertSeattle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-17-05 06:48 PM
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2. You Turkey!!!
:evilgrin:
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bobbyboucher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-17-05 06:48 PM
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3. How can that be when
it's in my backyard.
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PassingFair Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-17-05 06:57 PM
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9. Liars all!
Wait, I'll go dig it up. What the.....AAARRGGHHH.
I am blinded by the light!
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damntexdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-17-05 06:50 PM
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5. Really? I thought I heard it last night in my backyard.
Oh, no, that was my dog, not the bark of the covenant.
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northzax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-17-05 06:49 PM
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4. and since we all know that the US gubmint
has the ark in hand in a wharehouse, time to quake in our boots.
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damntexdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-17-05 06:52 PM
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6. And the U.S. Gummint paid Halliburton ...
ten times what it needed to produce the ark, had they gone with the low bid.
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EVDebs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-17-05 06:56 PM
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7. OK you wiseguys...But Bush's people believe this is going to happen
Edited on Mon Jan-17-05 06:58 PM by EVDebs
Check out the Guardian's "Their beliefs are bonkers, but they are at the heart of power - US Christian fundamentalists are driving Bush's Middle East policy"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1195568,00.html

Laugh all you want but this is some serious stuff !!!!!!

The Ark may be in a small town in Ethiopia called Axum.
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McKenzie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-17-05 06:57 PM
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8. "verifiable belief" - isn't that oxymoronic? n/t
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EVDebs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-17-05 06:58 PM
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10. Not according to the scientific method n/t
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McKenzie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-17-05 07:10 PM
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15. scientific method commences from hypotheses
Edited on Mon Jan-17-05 07:16 PM by McKenzie
the hypotheses are then tested empirically against the results of controlled expiriments. (erk, I'm getting nightmares about my old school physics lectures!)

I didn't mean to be rude but I had a shifty at the dictionary.

verifiable: adjective related to the transitive verb verify which means to establish the truth or correctness or validity of something.

belief: noun. a person's religion, religous conviction, firm opinion.

imvho the two words are different in context and meaning. btw, I loved Dan Brown's novel.

edit: spelling
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TrustingDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-17-05 07:02 PM
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11. bush is having one made as we speak...
easy enough to do. some fine wood, bit of a light show and voila, the fundies would certainly fall for it. I'm creeping myself out here.
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EVDebs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-17-05 07:03 PM
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12. Don't laugh, check that PBS site I mentioned, someone in MS is
raising Red Heifers for Temple sacrifices...
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TrustingDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-17-05 07:07 PM
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13. I just read about that last week. Unbelievable!
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EVDebs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-17-05 08:34 PM
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19. No, believeable but sooooo scary....
No wonder the Muslims are freaking out over Al Aqsa mosque !
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Bariztr Donating Member (84 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-17-05 07:10 PM
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14. Left behind
They were "left behind" a few grades in school if you ask me.
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EVDebs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-17-05 07:16 PM
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17. Now, now, they just been told dispensationalist beliefs and
Edited on Mon Jan-17-05 07:18 PM by EVDebs
aren't questioning anything...See that Gary Burge article I mentioned in original post; also see booklet "Forcing God's Hand" by Grace Halsell, a former LBJ speechwriter. Very good for openers. You can also check 'amillenialist' beliefs on google.
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orpupilofnature57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-17-05 07:13 PM
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16. IT'S ON HISTORY CHANNEL RIGHT NOW
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EVDebs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-17-05 07:17 PM
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18. Right, and it doesn't mention "The Sign and the Seal" or Graham Hancock
book at all or these beliefs.
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