[lit-ideas] Re: Remember what happened to Oriana Fallaci
- From: Robert Paul <robert.paul@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 13:19:29 -0700
Eric Yost wrote:
RP: What would be so wrong with being 'really a Methodist'?
Their history of constant woe, isolation, and secrecy looks to be as
practical a discouragement to real Methodism as possible.
"Real Methodism" refers to a worldwide secret society operating as a
Protestant movement. According to their finicky history, the movement
precisely dates itself to 1729, when their early student adherents, some
of them possibly autist, were derided for the methodical way they
performed their rites, ate their meals, and slept in what amounted to
large filing cabinets, alphabetized.
[etc.]
These fictitious charges have been circulating on the Internet for
years. They have been convincingly refuted by a number of religious
scholars, among them Fr Michael Chasseur, of the Institute du Chien
Andalou, one of the most respected writers on religious existence and
non-existence in the world. His conclusion that 'The Methodist Papers'
exist only in the minds of their proponents and partisans is borne out
by independent research at the Snopes Centre
(http://snopes.com/religion/religion.asp).
What Professor Yost writes remains a hoary slander.
Robert Paul
(author of Meta-Methodism and Beyond)
Department of Conformity Studies
Mutton College
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