--- In [email protected], "Rory Goff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], off_world_beings <no_reply@> > 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 :-)>>
Doh ! .
