To Blog or Not to Blog is the Question

Still going through my jetlag. Havent got a wink of sleep the whole night . So decided to blog rather than stare at the ceiling.

If there ever was a book which can get the title of ‘Just-cant-put-it-down-once-u-start-it’ this should be it. I dont have the taste for whodunit books and I heard somewhere that ‘Da Vinci Code’ was one such type. But seeing the popularity of the book I decided to give it a try. Bought the book in Boston read a few chapters liked it , kept it in my travelling kit to India. Once I was on the plane I just couldnt put it down and was done with the last 70% of the book during my flight from chicago to Frankfurt.

The story is more or less about the ‘Holy Grail’ quest, remember the Indiana jones movie .The story goes into history and various conspiracies that led to the evolution of Christianity. No doubt the church is enraged. I have heard that the Church has come with a different book which refutes what was said in this book. If I do get some time I will definitely look into it .

Some interesting points about the book.

1. Author argues that modern Christianity is a mixture of Mithrainism, a pagan religion and christianity. ( This was a known fact. Christmas and Easter were borrowed from Mithrianism). The author has taken this to public for the first time. Evolution of modern christianity was for the lust for power by Constantine, the Roman emperor.

2. It was a woman’s world and the advent of Christianity changed the world into a man’s world and that sex was considered holy. Christian leaders tried to suppress women by tainiting them as witches and burning them at stake and denigrated sex as ‘original sin’ .

3. Jesus and Mary Magdalene were married and they had a kid. (Early christian Popes denigrated Mary Magdalene as a prostitute). Mary Magdalene was the Holy Grail and a secret society had maintained this code which was passed onto them by the Templars, who found this secret from the temple at Jerusalem during the first crusade. These Templars were brutally killed by the pope in a covert operation.

4. Jesus was considered a mortal prophet by early christians .

5. The Bible was tampered with to show Jesus as God. The author cites Dead-sea scrolls and hammadi documents as examples.

I will have to read the reaction by the Church and devout christians , but this book is definitely a great read.
I would like to see this book converted into a movie.