25th May 2006, 10:18 AM
DMiller Wrote:The movie was horrible, but the book was good. Yeah it's not well-written, but I found it to be interesting and pretty engrossing.
The reason he writes a cryptogram is because he has a secret that he can't let just anyone know about, and it was the reason he was killed. The cryptogram is meant for his granddaughter to figure out, and it serves it's purpose.
Anyway, there are a lot of things that point to Mary Magdalene being married to Jesus, but that's just as easy to prove as anything from Biblical times. All of the stuff in the book about secret societies and the church covering up the truth about Magdalene is hard to swallow, though.
What did you see that on the "History Channel"? There's about as much evidence to that as the truth about Santa's second wife, or Frodo and Sam having a gay love affair, which is to say, it's hard to say there's even any evidence Jesus existed from a historical perspective.
"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)