Ron - If the phrase "one of their kind" sounds racist to you, you should check out the La Voz de Aztlan web-site. That's the way they refer to themselves. It's like the organization La Raza, that's what they named themselves, I had nothing to do with that either.

                   Yes. I think religion is the root of all evil. I've read other posters and don't agree with all of them. Why would that be unusual. It doesn't qualify as a conspiracy theory, though, because there is no conspiracy. For another view on the relationship between Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene, I would recommend the book, "The Last Temptation of Christ."

RE: Opus Dei: I tried to read "The Da Vinci Code," but found the prose style so incredibly boring, I couldn't force myself to go on through with it.

                   Of course big international banking firms compete with each other, in a gentlemanly manner. It's just the people on the bottom that they all work so hard together against, for the purpose of keeping them repressed.


                  My version of the Salman Rushdie conspiracy is that Rushdie and his publisher conspired to intensify the reality of the threat, whether real or imagined, in order to boost the sales of "Satanic Verses."