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Vatican/HP To Put Library Online

Posted by Hemos on from the getting-the-real-deal dept.

darkuncle writes "I first read it in the LA Times print edition this morning, but the story is also available on several websites via news.google.com. Apparently the Vatican has enlisted Hewlett-Packard in an effort to put the contents of the Vatican Library online, including many rare Bible texts and previously unavailable manuscripts, including handwritten notes by the likes of Martin Luther and Michelangelo."

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  1. Catholics and computers? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll




    Can you imagine how much child porn they'll have online??

    Sick bastards

  2. Will it include all the rare items? by McFly69 · · Score: 1, Troll

    Will it include all the rare texts? Including the prediction of the fall of the cathlic empire? Or will it jsut put texts to show the struggle of the cahtholic religon to make it look more appealign to the general public?

    BTW I am a cathlic, and I am not bashing, just curious.

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  3. A lot will go unseen... by SexyKellyOsbourne · · Score: -1, Troll

    If they put all of it up on the internet, it would discredit Christianity and the Catholic Church so much that it would be the final nail in the coffin.

    You would see so much persecution, anti-Semitism (up to and including WWII), covering up of atrocities not limited to witch hunts and pedophilia, and countless other horrors.

    Not to mention, it would bring out a lot of texts that would show just how modern Christianity and Catholicism was practically invented by Roman Councils picking, choosing, and editing text as they pleased, and how all the text of the Bible either came from oral history or history written 70 years after Jesus' death, of which none of the original texts still exist.

    1. Re:A lot will go unseen... by Blackneto · · Score: 1, Troll

      All people need to do is READ the Bible to discredit Modern Christianity and the Catholic Church.

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    2. Re:A lot will go unseen... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      I agree. All one has to do is turn on the news if you want proof of Catholic wrong-doing. I think a lot more people(especially children) that have been wronged the Catholic clergy need to watch "Sleepers" as more of a training video than a guide.

  4. Catholic Priest and their Children. by Kip+Diamond · · Score: -1, Troll

    I wonder if the document that states its ok for Catholic Priests to molest little children is in there somewhere?

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  5. Hatred, Violence, and Christianity by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    More /. posters should be as considerate.

    No. More /. posters should feel unrestrained to attack belief systems which:
    1) are responsible for large amounts of documented hatred, intolerance, and violence, and
    2) fail to prove the existence of a deity which their hatred, intolerance, and violence is committed in the name of.

    I'll start you off with one link:
    Hatred, Violence, and Christianity

    It's trivial to find more cases of how Christianty in the past and present continues to preach from texts which call for the killing of women, homosexuals, etc. by the command of a deity whose existence and authority cannot be demonstrated.