http://www.newswithviews.com/Kincaid/cliff341.htm
by Cliff Kincaid
Da Vinci Code Religion
First, let me remind you that works of fiction can have a profound effect on real events if the author knows how to hit the emotional hot buttons of large numbers of readers. Two of the best examples are Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe and Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy........
http://www.newswithviews.com/Erica/Carle159.htm
by Erica Carle
The Faustian Face of Modern Science, Part 5
One of the earliest exponents of the scientistic Weltanschauung was Sir Francis Bacon, who coined the famous aphorism: "Knowledge itself is power." According to Carl Raschke, this dictum is thematically underpinned by Gnostic occultism: "The well-known maxim of Bacon, nam et ipsa scientia potestas est ('Knowledge itself is power'), is often commemorated as the credo of the new science, but it also suits quite precisely the magico-religious mentality of Gnosticism".....
http://www.newswithviews.com/Collins/phillip136.htm
by Phillip D. Collins