http://www.matthewaxsom.net/blog/2006/05/21/da-vinci-stupidity/ Publicly displaying a Buddha, St. Francis, a metal dog and a plastic duck all together in one spot and calling it "chic". Tue, 09 Jun 2026 03:15:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 http://www.matthewaxsom.net/blog/2006/05/21/da-vinci-stupidity/#comment-9 epreacher Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:32:08 +0000 http://www.matthewaxsom.net/blog/2006/05/21/da-vinci-stupidity/#comment-9 People can really be stupid can't they? On the one side, people are swallowing up this literature as if it were fact, and on the other side, they feel like it will destroy the kingdom when clearly Jesus said the gates of hades would not prevail against it. I taught a class on early church history in our congregation to set straight some of the ridiculous and glarying historical inaccuracies in Brown's book that any student of church history and medeival history would know. For instance, Gnostics did not teach a human Jesus, as the characters in Brown's book claims, but denied the humanity of Jesus and elevated his deity. Some had questions, which were easy for me to answer, but overall I am not worried about this. This sort of thing has been happening since day one. The only people interested in it are going to be conspiracy theorists and people who have a problem with the "establishment" and authority figures in general. People can really be stupid can’t they? On the one side, people are swallowing up this literature as if it were fact, and on the other side, they feel like it will destroy the kingdom when clearly Jesus said the gates of hades would not prevail against it. I taught a class on early church history in our congregation to set straight some of the ridiculous and glarying historical inaccuracies in Brown’s book that any student of church history and medeival history would know. For instance, Gnostics did not teach a human Jesus, as the characters in Brown’s book claims, but denied the humanity of Jesus and elevated his deity. Some had questions, which were easy for me to answer, but overall I am not worried about this. This sort of thing has been happening since day one. The only people interested in it are going to be conspiracy theorists and people who have a problem with the “establishment” and authority figures in general.

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