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http://www.contenderministries.org/biblestudy/trinity.php
http://www.bible.org/page.php?page_id=215
http://www.answers.org/theology/trinity_biblical.html

I could go on. Google is your friend.

Hmmm...

You might want to check out some more facts before believing a fictional novel... ;-)

http://www.wnyreligion.net/DaVinci-Code.html
http://answers.org/issues/davincicode.html
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/guides/guide- display/-/92FAYWN05Y7U/103-1285797-7283066

Da Vinci Code's factual errors are too numerous for a rational intellectual to ignore, much less put stock in it's assumptions about anyone.

Like most who do not understand something, you appear to fill in the gaps with fantasy that suits your perception of reality.

I know you're a paranoid conspiracy theorist so I know you can't/won't believe anything that can actually be proven. It would go against your world most ingrained assumptions and destroy your perception of having and elevated status resulting from persecution by "them" (tm)

No, Hitler was not a Christian. Quick google for Hitler Christian turned up a plethora of links telling otherwise. Mods, please verify facts before modding things like this up. I forfeit my ability to mod this story so that I could post a proper rebuttal to this. Corrections should be made.

I'm no fan of postmodernism or deconstructionism, but answers.org is a fundamentalist tripe-site. There are more logical treatments of postmodernism, ones free of the biases found at answers.org. Is "Magic: the Gathering" an occult plot? Answers.org wants you to know! answers.org/issues/Magic_game.html

Deconstruction is a theory that is beyond being intellectually bankrupt -- it is intellectually meaningless and thus had no intellectual capital to begin with!

Let's see. First, you state, possibly correctly, that Science is primarily concerned with how, and religion with why. Bravo! You have grapsed something that most people never quite manage to get: science and religion are not competitors, they are different disciplines. There is only a problem when science attempts to claim that it has made religion irrelevant.

Sadly, you then go on to say

I personally thing that this is why most religions are based upon fear. Fear brings people to religion, and religion keeps people playing on that fear.

Sorry if this sounds hostile, but I honestly cannot imagine a reason that a person would choose to blind themselves to learning, and gain all of their knowledge of the universe from an authority who claims to be infallible (Be it the Bible, the Pope, the Prophet, the Bhan-Wagen with his fourty gold Rols Royces) that is constantly proven by logic and reasoning to be thoroughly flawed. (Read: Flat Earth, Earth rides on the back of an elephant, Earth is the center of the universe, the world is only 6000 years old even though the chinese have contiguous records that date back furthur....)

• The earth is 6000 years old.
• The earth is flat.

Unfortunatly, in order to create this atmosphere of fear, religin invariably needs to make a them. This leads to hate among these groups. Christianity in it's sorted history has lead to the absolute, intollerable hatred of women for causing the original sin, blacks because they have no soul - so we are free to enslave them and hurt them as much as we wish, Gays - because they do not fit into the christian world view, Atheists - because they represent a threat to the power structure, and the list goes on. (and on, and on, and on....ad infenetium)

• Women - Husbands, love your wives and do not be harsh with them. (colossians 3:19)

Finally, let me challenge you to something: I want you to name the top 3 murderers of all time and their religious leanings. You seem to assert that religion is the source of the greatest evil, well here are my counterexamples:

• Stalin: killed more than hitler ever dreamed of. Killed jews, killed Christians, killed anyone who didn't cooperate with him. Atheist.
• Mao: The cultural revolution basically meant killing a few million people. Atheist.
• Hitler: Killed what... 10 million Jews? Also killed any Christians who stood up to him, subverted the German state church. Some like to claim he was a Christian: may I suggest that they read Mein Kampf or any of his other writings before they do? Best guess is that he was just a religious opportunist, however much of the Aryan mythos and even the Swastika seems to have come from the Indian Subcontinent. Some would say he was an Atheist, some would say a Pagan. I say it doesn't matter: his quotes show amply that he wasn't a Christian. See http://www.answers.org/Apologetics /Hitquote.html

So, all this rambling leads me to my conclusion: Intead of searching for a why, and returning with the baggage of fear, loathing, and an infalible answer (who has few or no foundations other then 'God said so'), why not try to gain a world view that just says 'we only have learned so much, and even that is suspect', because at least that can have solid foundations - even if it cannot yet give you all the answers - it can at least provide you with a likely scenerio.

Your post was not just offensive, but showed a clear lack of study and was generally just plain wrong.