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Summary: Intriguing! Mind-boggling!
Review: This book is the best (yet) that I have read that tackles with issues concerning our beliefs. It's a delicacy for paranoids (like me) and people who usually ponders the veracity of their own beliefs. Truly, this book poses a big challenge towards the faith of people. The book also goes to show that everything is relative and perfection or infallibility (at least in our world) is improbable. What would you choose, your comfortable faith or the bewildering truth(or a plausible truth?)? And can you handle it? Read this book first then ponder your decision.
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Summary: absolutely amazing!
Review: This book I found excellent and it changed my whole point of view in Christianty. I would appreciate any suggestions for additional reading.
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Summary: HEY CHRISTIANS!!! WAKE FROM YOUR STUPOR!!!!
Review: This book is a fine place from which to proceed on one's deconstruction of the prodigious and arcane set of lies, coercion and cover-up collectively known as modern christianity. The one resounding truth that rings through out the book is that power and vengeance, not love for fellow man or worship of the man named Joshua, has dominated the christian theocracy and European monarchies over the past two millennia. Amazingly, this book dips its beak into all twenty of those centuries to construct a dazzlingly simple and elegant hypothesis (which I will leave to you to discover).Personally, I found the most engrossing part of the book to be those parts covering the first five centuries of christianity and how they determined the development of western society. The other parts of the book which deal with the middle ages up to the present are much more relevant as the very last pages of the book unfold to the reader. Hold on for a long, tortuous and tantalizing ride through the looking glass my friends. Faith will be transcended and replaced with a novel substitute: truth. I also highly recommend the sequel "The Messianic Legacy" which elaborates on "Holy Blood Holy Grail" as well as the roots of schisms in early christianity. Splendid!
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Summary: Definitely a must read.
Review: Not counting that this book concurs with what I've been able to dig up on the Judeo-Christian mythos, and not counting that it flies in the face of currently acceptable dogma, it's simply a wonderful book. It's a great read, and what exposes is definitely more than food for though. After buying this book, be prepared to spend more money on other books just to continue the story. It's given me plenty to think about, and I've since adjusted my whole belief system.
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Summary: Hook-Line-And-Sinker
Review: I couldn't put this book down. Just the fact that it would dare to fly in the face of established Judeo/Christian dogma had me drooling. Even if all the facts are not 100% correct, it still exposes some ugly truths about the Church and organised religion in general, and also reminds us that the Bible was not written by the hand of GOD, but at the hands of men... many of them, over a great deal of time, languages and culture. The people who review this book unfavourably miss the whole point. If this book teaches you one thing, it should be to question authority, no matter what the source. Individuals who feel their core beliefs threatened by the book's content should really examine more carefully the roots of their faith. Besides, it's fun to watch fundamentalist Cristians squirm when they're confronted with facts that threaten the dogma they subscribe so willingly to. If even half the stuff in this book is true it will significantly alter your life, and beliefs. This book is not to be missed... if you can handle it!
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Summary: Intriguing thesis, excellent scholarship
Review: I first came across Holy Blood, Holy Grail four years ago, and it the interim it has led to a complete revision of my religious beliefs. The story is fascinating; more importantly, it's plausible. There is nothing contradictory to Christian belief in the idea that Jesus was married and even fathered children. In fact, it makes him more believable as a person and explains a lot about his personal motivations and actions. It's important to keep in mind that Jesus was born, lived, and died a Jew; it was not his intent to found a new religion-- especially one that would prove heretical, even blasphemous to traditional Judaism! Since reading this book, I've read several books on the subject of Rennes-le-Chateau, the Holy Grail, and the possible descent of Jesus. They're intriguing, but Baigent et al. set the standard. I enjoyed the follow-up material in The Messianic Legacy, and look forward to future investgations by this talented team.
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Summary: Complete and utter nonsense from beginning to end
Review: Why bother with other conspiracy theories when you can have this masterpiece? Everything else is just a pale imitation. Read Umberto Eco's "Foucault's Pendulum" immediately after this.
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Summary: Far-fethched but intriguing
Review: Although I found the book to be quite intriguing, I could not make the leaps in logic and reasoning which the authors seem to make with but a grain of salt. Throughout the book, I could not help but wonder whether the authors are freemasons, since every conclusion fits in rather well with freemason belief. Jesus is portrayed not as God, but as a fraud. The Bible and the Gospels are all misquoted and incorrectly analyzed. To think that Jesus had children is preposterous. Some other presumptions in the book seem to be given with no background information or substantiation. There is a period of about 500 years which the authors completely skip. This book is the best example I have encountered of trying to discredit the Christian Saviour. God have mercy on the authors' souls.
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Summary: The Dark Ages were not so dark
Review: I found the book an excellent overview of a vital episode of historical disinformation. The facts surrounding the Albigasian crusade and why the crusaders thought they had the right to crown a king of jeruselem are incredible. Their theory on the intent of Geoffery Debullion to unify islam, judaism, and christianity has incredible historical a technilogical implications. Also their theories of where the original Jews of Isreal, vs the shepardic jews of the holocost, disapeared to is one direction I would love to read more about.
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Summary: The Big Secret
Review: I have read this book not once, but several times. One man who decided to read a book whilst on holiday in France has provided me with many years of pleasure searching for the truth to this wonderful mystery. Once one has read this book, one feels compelled to discover more. The good thing is, that there is so much more to be discovered. The follow up to this was 'The Messianic Legacy' These three authors may have come closer to the truth than many will ever do in years to come. But the greatest thing about this mystery is that it is real. It actually happened and traces of it are still to be found.
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