The Last Templar. Halfway. SPOILERS

I'm reading this very interesting book _The Last Templar_ by Raymond Khoury. I really enjoy it, wth its Indiana Jones meets the Crusades feel, seasoned with 13thC flashbacks. But... a spoiler...

Claiming ANYTHING could unify the three religions of Abraham: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, preposterous. Assuming proof was found that the Christ Myth was truly a myth, and assuming you could disseminate this proof to the masses, it would be dismissed quickly by Christians as false work by non-believers or the lies of Satan. The Jews would ho-hum twiddle their thumbs and be in the same position they are now. The Muslims probably wouldn't care less, having a new prophet, book, temple,  everything. People have this thing called 'Faith', aka blind acceptence of whichever myth tickled their heartstrings and adamant ignorence of anything that might threaten that myth. You could never make Christian believe Jesus wasn't the Christ, even if you somehow god God to come down out of the sky and say it wasn't so.

Hell, you could disprove the whole damn thing, both testaments AND the existence of a God, and people who just don't want to hear... won't. I don't think any scholar would believe he could affect such change as that. So, the Vance character is a wee unbelievable. History is truth via memory and evidence and exposure. How many people still cling to the belief that man didn't walk on the moon? How many believe we did based on a television broadcast? How many people are Scientologists? And you think no one ever told them they were wrong?

Still, enjoyable read if you ignore these few points. We'll see where it goes.

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