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The Knights Templar are demanding that the Vatican give them back their good name and, possibly, billions in assets into the bargain, 700 years after the order was brutally suppressed by a joint venture between the Pope and the King of France.
If the Holy See doesn’t comply, the warrior knights, renowned for liberating the Holy Land, will deploy that most fearsome of weapons: a laborious court case through the creaking Spanish legal system.
I used to think the Templars were real.
I know think that they are just an elaborate marketing hoax.
The very idea of them is to give outside credibility to the whole jesus myth. It has been going on for ages and it still serves them well.
The only evidence for the jesus thing is in the bible. There is nothing else. They always have been on very shakey ground but they have managed to pull it off.
The whole history of the Templars just reads like a marketing campaign to me now. Don’t forget that these people work centuries ahead.
It casts doubt in the minds of atheists and agnostics as to the real existence of the jesus thing. It also adds strength to the faith of the converted.
Whatever the end result of this court action will be is irrelevant. Do you really think the church would ever actually hand over that sort of money? If they were ever forced to the whole thing would just be an internal transfer of money anyway. It is the public awareness that they are interested in. Just marketing.
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