Amazon.com: The Last Templar: Books: Raymond Khoury

The Last Templar by Raymond Khoury was very disturbing to me.

The basis of the book is that the Templar's were founded by a group of men whose sole mission was to uncover the gospel of Jesus, written in his own hand. It detailed his teachings and decision to proclaim himself the Son of God. It has fairly long dialogues between a true believer and those who are disillusioned by "the truth." The disillusioned have long monologues explaining their thoroughly logical view-point, and the believer, who has short lines stitching their monologues together.

Its clearly riding on the coat-tails of The DaVinci Code.

My problem is that the basic story of Jesus being a fake is accepted as truth. The church's hierarchy knows this, but doesn't want to destroy the faith, useless faith, of a billion people. Faith, belief in something greater than ourselves, is a good thing. It doesn't matter what we believe, because belief itself drives us to be better people. Sure, there have been wars, Inquisitions, murders, terrorism, etc. in the name of religion.

This book defies the roots of Christianity, and cheapens it to the point of mass psychology, an opiate of the masses. Jesus is alive, real. But there is a whole slew of books coming out now in this vein. Religion/belief/faith is good. Just don't believe your way is the only way. Jesus, Moses, Mohammed. We can all get along and be better people by believing. Even if our beliefs are blatantly lies, and we know it.

I'm disgusted.