--- In [email protected], off_world_beings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gibson probably also thinks the Founding Fathers of America were > Christians, when in fact most of them were FreeMasons intent on > establishing the Novus Ordo Seclorum (see your dollar notes ) "New > Secular Order"
Quick note -- Novus Ordo Seclorum translates as "New" (Novus) "Order" (Ordo) "of the Ages, Generations or Centuries" (Seclorum or more fully Saeculorum being the genitive or possessive plural of Saeculum, "Age" or "Century" (viz. the French cognate siecle, as in fin-de-siecle, "end of the century"). "Secular" -- from the adjective Saecularis, "worldly, secular, of the age" -- would be a rather egregious mistranslation of Seclorum, the sort of "scholarship" Dan Brown's supposedly-learned characters frequently demonstrate, to the amusement of anyone who actually stayed awake through a decent humanities course in college, or were fortunate enough to take Latin in high school before it was phased out :-) that the Freemasons and Sir Francis Bacon (councillor > to Queen Elizabeth I, and called the "Grandfather of Modern > Science" ) had espoused. > > And the "Pilgrims" at Plymouth Rock he probably thinks were freedom > seekers running from English oppression, when in fact, by their own > philosphy and actions, were repressive, hateful, fundamentalist > christians, who murdered Indians who did not convert, and who left > England because Queen Elizabeth and Freemason council were against > religious repression, and didn't let the "Puritans" practice their > sectarian fundamentalist religion in the towns and villages of Devon > and Cornwall, where, if you were "not with them, you were with the > Devil". > > OffWorld > > > . >
