24th May 2006, 8:14 PM
Ryan Wrote:I dunno about the religious content or historical accuracy, so I guess you're being general.
What turned me off is the dying curator of the Louvre deciding to write a cryptogram with his own blood instead of, you know, calling the cops.
The history makes pretty much ALL the stuff pretty much inaccurate or at least unsubstatiated, though it does paint a certain religious sect in the Catholic church in a bad light (a "hunting down people to maintain the secret" bad light).
However, I've heard as much myself. I can't see any reason for him to have written out huge cryptic messages rather than the actual information (the killer should have erased anything the guy tried to write if he was going to erase the facts as they stood), and yes, writing it all in blood while he bled to death instead of calling for help would be the better decision.
At any rate, the thing that gets me is the people that believe the conspiracy to be real, which shouldn't I suppose... Another hilarity? The pope being shocked people would all believe a bunch of nonsense in some book.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)