The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail - Lincoln Baigent, Leigh Baigent

After reading Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code (separate review), I remembered that my dad had read a book back in the 1980's which is mentioned in Brown's book. This was "The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail". Between Brown's book, the controversy associated with it, and my good friend Steerpyke's review, I felt compelled to get a hold of this book and read it. After asking my dad if he still had the book so I could read it, I found it on the shelves ...
...Brief History ~~~~~~~~~ Initially, the authors of this book were to make a documentary about the Holy Grail. After much research and many developments, they decided that the documentary just was not enough, and so this book was eventually written. When it was initially published in 1982, there was a fair bit of controversy and many branded the authors heretics. But true to their own beliefs, they stuck by their guns and won the respect of many ...

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Review of The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail - Lincoln Baigent, Leigh Baigent

...journey, for myself, started with The Bible and my desire to reconnect with God after years of thinking I was a bad person for abandoning The Church. My desire to know God and the truth behind all I had been taught as a child led me to pursue pastoral goals. However, the more I used my head, and 'discerned' as the Bible commanded of me to do - the more I started to see that what I was reading was an obvious manipulation of reality. At first I thought ...
...us many opportunities to find the truth that so many claim to be seeking. I would recommend this book to anyone that is TRULY seeking answers to things that do not add up. Things that they find hard to reason with that they are taught in church. This book ties together a lot of loose ends for those that are able to transcend the programming that most people have been getting for generations. This book does not necessarily intend to make people abandon ...

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Review of The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail - Lincoln Baigent, Leigh Baigent

Considering the amount of controversy that has been caused by Dan Brown and his so called "startling and radical ideas" its probably only fitting that people interested in heretical Christian mysteries and the like get back to the source material that Brown plundered. One of the main sources for his book "The Da Vinci Code" was "The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail" which was published in 1982 and it was both universally denounced by the Church but ...
...book, a book that opened the doors for many similar works. But what was so controversial about its subject matter? The book opens with a scenario that the writer's claim took place between the wars in rural southern France near a village, which has since become an icon for conspiracy theory enthusiasts, Rennes Le Chateau. It is claimed that a young priest managed to get rich possibly by blackmailing the Vatican with information that he had uncovered ...

steerpyke 20.03.2006 · Read full review
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Review of The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail - Lincoln Baigent, Leigh Baigent