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Originally Posted by EatingPie
I've never heard the term sockpuppet. Is that a general Internetism like "troll" or is it mobileread-specific?
I am glad the thread wasn't closed. I actually had just started reading that other thread, which was pretty interesting until disaster struck. Glad the same fate didn't occur here!
Thanks for your clarification. I won't add any more either, except a clarification of my own.
I had only intended to refer to Dan Brown's demonstrably false ideas that dismissed the Christian doctrine wholly as a Catholic deception. And to me it became "conspiracy theory" when I saw those ideas being assimilated into popular culture as though they were truth, even though they were not just false, but easily proven as such with even the most cursory of research.
Scholarship like that of Ehrman, Metzger, Oxford Dictionaries, etc., are certainly not in such a category. (The Jesus Seminar... well... that's... um... ugh!)
-Pie
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Glad we cleared that up.
Yes, Dan Brown is a piece of work. Had his
Da Vinci Code been presented simply as a work of fiction, there would have been no reason to raise an alarm. It was in presenting his ideas as well-researched historical conclusions that he tripped off into La La Land.