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From: wfi@rti-sel.UUCP (William Ingogly)
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Subject: Re: Re: \"secular Humanism banned in the US Schools
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Date: Tue, 1-Oct-85 17:15:35 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct  1 17:15:35 1985
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In article <461@philabs.UUCP> dpb@philabs.UUCP (Paul Benjamin) writes:

>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.

The deleted books are called the apocrypha, and are available in most
bookstores in paperback form. Your local B. Dalton or Waldenbooks
probably has a copy. They're hardly 'locked up' in the Vatican. Much
of the material consists of Gnostic texts, I believe; check Elaine
Pagel's "The Gnostic Gospels" for an interesting history of the
suppression of the Gnostic 'heresy' during the first few centuries of
the Church's existence.

                           -- Cheers, Bill Ingogly