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From: dpb@philabs.UUCP (Paul Benjamin)
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Subject: Re: Re: \"secular Humanism banned in the US Schools
Message-ID: <461@philabs.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 30-Sep-85 13:38:41 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 30 13:38:41 1985
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> In article <730@ttidcc.UUCP> hollombe@ttidcb.UUCP (The Polymath) writes:
> >In article <1360@cae780.UUCP> gordon@cae780.UUCP (Brian Gordon) writes:
> >>In article <480@decwrl.UUCP> bottom@katadn.DEC writes:
> >>> outright lies, then why did the Catholic church buy the dead sea scrolls 
> >>> and then lock them up in the Vatican library for "church scholors" only?
> >>
> >> Uhhhhhhhh -- could you be a little more specific?  Buy them when?  From
> >> whom?  Lock them up?  The last I heard (but I'll admit I haven't gone out
> >> of my way to follow the location of the Dead Sea Scrolls), the Vatican had
> >> no connection with them.
> >>
> >> Can the poster -- or anyone else -- please clarify?
> >
> > Last I heard (and saw them) the Dead Sea Scrolls were in a museum in
> > Jerusalem.
> 
> ... and on public view behind a large glass case.
> 
I believe that the original posting was a bit inaccurate. He did not
mean the Dead Sea Scrolls, which, as have been pointed out, are on display.
They are a relatively recent discovery. Now, I am not an expert, but I
seem to recall from history class that the Catholic church had a big
conference sometime in the, oh 11th or so century, at which it decided
upon the present contents of the Bible. Of course, we know that the
Bible was not actually one book that was written at one time, but is a
collection of writing from many ages. The original posting refers to a
common rumor, perhaps the truth, that the Catholic church decided not
to include certain sections in the current Bible, and has these locked
up in the Vatican.

Disclaimer: I claim no knowledge about the truth of this rumor. Don't
flame me about it! I am just trying to set this discussion back on its
correct track.


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