Thrid Post

I am going to continue with the theme of morals. I just finished my outside reading book and it had an amazing surprise ending. At this point, all four cardinals were dead and there was only a few minutes until the antimatter exploded the carmalengo (the man who was the pope’s assistant: in charge in between his death and the election of the new pope) had a “revelation;” in which god told him a verse of the bible. The verse: “Upon this rock, I will build my church,” is actually a riddle. St. Peter’s church wasn’t built on a rock, but Jesus’ nickname for Saint Peter was the Rock because he was his first disciple and was so devout. So when the carmalengo, Robert Langdon, Victoria, and others found the antimatter on his tomb they were overjoyed. Then, the carmalengo was going to bring the antimatter up in the helicopter into the sky to explode. But Robert Langdon jumped in thinking that they would throw it out, but the carmalengo had other plans. He left Langdon in the copter with the antimatter locked inside, so Langdon ditched and landed in the Tames river. When he came to, he saw a video of the carmalengo’s confession to being Janus, the master-mind behind all the recent atrocities. The carmalengo’s reasons were to make people devout again. However, in the process, he murdered the pope, who he had thought broke his vow of celibacy. This wasn’t true, due to science, he was able to have a child with a nun, without breaking his vow, and his child was the carmalengo, though he never knew. So then the carmalengo burned himself alive. The moral issue was how the carmalengo killed the pope, his “adoptive” father, and real father, because he didn’t hear the pope out: The pope had told the carmalengo that he was his son, but in his haste, the carmalengo didn’t listen to the pope’s explanation.

Angels & Demons by Dan Brown