[Sca-cooks] a Lenten question-

[Terry Decker]

Sorry, "The Hiram Key" isn't scholarship, it's speculative clap-trap and 
sloppy to boot.  Dr. Robert Lomas is an EE with advanced research in solid 
state physics.  Christopher Knight has a degree in advertising and graphic 
design.

The book I was referring to is John Dominic Crossan and Johnathan L. Reed's 
"In Search of Paul:  How Jesus' Apostle Opposed Rome's Empire with God's 
Kingdom."  Crossan is Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at DePaul 
University, Chicago.  Crossan is also the author of "The Historical Jesus" 
and several other works on early Christianity.

Bear


> Uhm, I think it is _The Hiram Key_  but that series of books details a lot
> about the early Christian church and its connections to Freemasonry,
> and then  _The Second Messiah_  deals with the connections of
> the Masons to the Knights Templar.  There are two more books after that
> that deal almost strictly with Masonic themes that are good reading as
> well, but the names escape me.
>
> The Hiram key depicts Saul/Paul as Roman cult fanboy who grabs
> onto the rituals of the earloy Jerusalem church and then blows them
> into the roman themed juggernaut that christianity is today.
>
> Cadoc