A review by nerdy_scholar
Holy Blood, Holy Grail by Michael Baigent

4.0

Having read this book as fiction, I enjoyed it a lot, though it was fragmentary in plot now and then. Alas, read as a work of history, this book is a great hoax! Knowing the popularity of Jesus at his own time, his marriage couldn't be that easily forgotten. If a dynasty of his lineage existed at any time, they would have spreaded the word of their sacred lineage and people would have revolted against any attempt at dethroning them. Today, no one would even think of reviving the divine right of kings in Europe or the world, after the advent of the enlightenment and its revolutionary concepts. Thus, every argument in the book is logically refuted.