Stephanie Wrote:
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> Jim Lewandowski Wrote:
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> > ***
> > Precisely. If someone wants to think Opus
> Dei is
> > a secret organization, that's their
> prerogative.
> > If someone wants to think Hitler was
> absolutely
> > benign, they are allowed to do so (save for
> > Germany's recent exception).
>
> Correct. However, we're talking about publicized
> word. Big difference.
>
> >
> > ***
> > The reasoning not need be consistent. IOW,
> not
> > all organizations are created equally. Some
> have
> > certain disclosure rules, others have NO
> evidence
> > they've done a certain thing (misdeed or
> > otherwise).
>
> If an organization has disclosure rules, then
> there is something shady to them? My husband had
> to sign non-disclosures for his work. Does that
> mean the company he works for is shady or perhaps
> they are simply protecting their interests?

***
No strawman. Start your own thread.


>
> >
> > ***
> > Precisely. Would you rather to donate Red
> Cross
> > org. #1 which DOES have to disclose where
> they
> > spend their $ or Red Cross org. #2 which does
> NOT.
> > Simple, isn't it.
>
> Red Cross is a charitable organization so they
> should have this information readily available for
> the public. Other organizations do not fall under
> that category and therefore, do not have to report
> anything that isn't any of our business anyways.

***
I never said that. I asked which YOU would donate to (i.e. vote with your feet or $).


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> >
> > ***
> > Public opinion is FAR more valuable IMHO on
> where
> > things lay.
>
> Exactly. That's why there is so much publicity
> about all of it. One of the heads of Opus Dei
> even has been involved with the Da Vinci Code
> movie to help improve the way it is depicted. This
> is alot better, imo, then running to a courtroom.
>
> >
> > ***
> > Nope. It's a moot issue because I don't
> care
> > about Opus Dei or whether Brown's book is
> factual
> > or fictional or which facts are true and
> which
> > one's are passed off as being true. I AM
> > interested in OTHER people's take on those
> issues,
> > though.
>
> I guess to understand why people have their takes
> on the DVC issue, you probably should. If you
> don't look to see what has happened in response to
> the book, then you cannot possibly understand why
> people are perturbed at Brown.

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I've been aware of the whole thing since the book became a bestseller. Fundies don't like it for obvious reasons. The Opus Dei guy I talked to was upset about DVC portraying things as facts when they weren't. Again, it's a FICTIONAL book so I'm lost on the logic.



>
> >
> > I'm off to my DaVinci Code readers group soon
> and
> > I have a bunch of questions to ask the group
> to
> > get a layman's (i.e. non-historian as members
> here
> > generally are) view of this. There's a
> method to
> > my madness.
>
> I don't see myself as a historian so count my
> opinion as a layman's. Just a note though,
> Jim...you're secret agenda is showing.

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What's my secret agenda?

JL


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> Stephanie
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>
> In every man there is something wherein I may
> learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.--Ralph
> Waldo Emerson

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P.S. Above quote was in a recent episode of All in the Family.

JL