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Holiday jeers from the establishment press.(Insider Report)
Have you ever gotten the impression that reading one major newsweekly is like reading another? Of course! But the establishment echo chamber is usually not as obvious as it was this past Christmas season, when the December 22 issues of Time and U.S. News & World Report devoted their cover stories to supposedly scholarly attacks on the Christian faith. So perfectly in sync were the publications that they featured the same cover illustration--an adaptation of "The Saviour of the World" by the Dutch master Anthony van Dyck.
Both Time and U.S. News & World Report used the celebration of Jesus's birth to extol Gnosticism--a once-rejected rival of Christianity that is supposedly enjoying a contemporary revival. Both publications cite the recent bestseller The Da Vinci Code, a novel that re-packages several time-worn Gnostic myths, such as: Jesus was married to Mary Magdalene, whom he chose as a successor; and the "Holy Grail" was in fact the sang real--royal bloodline--of Jesus's physical offspring, who supposedly became France's Merovingian dynasty.
Time points to the immensely successful Matrix films as an illustration of the way Gnostic ideas have "found their way into the most successful reaches of pop culture." And both journals portray the growth of neo-Gnosticism as an indictment of ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Holiday jeers from the establishment press.(Insider Report)