Angels & Demons

It has been long since I read my last book. But as soon as my exams wrapped up there was no one in this world to stop me. Today I finished reading Dan Brown’s Angels & Demons. Religion vs. Science, the battle continues…I must admit this book made me rethink a lot many things in my brain apart from providing me with a good amount of minutiae just like The Vinci Code did.

A novel which I thought was too long in the middle turned out to be more exciting than The Vinci Code itself. You don’t believe me? Well then try reading it. The Vinci had a dreadful and predictable ending compare to the twist and turns it had throughout the text, but the same is so not true with this book (though I must admit, it's ending was far too dramatical by any stadard just like a Bollywood masala movie).

In the centre of the book is a group called Illuminati founded by no other than the Galileo himself and the way church tried to suppress their work. The ruthless story of how church murdered scientists to stop others from joining the group and how the eminent brains of Galileo and Bernini found an immaculate solution to this problem. The story unfolds the mystical creations of Bernini and Galileo in the Vatican City with an antimatter bomb ticking right beneath it.

The title Angels & Demons is applicable to both church and science. The book is all about how science is moving and the human mind is getting oriented more and more towards reason. People believe in the miracles of science and not the ones preached by church. Science is moving ahead with the speed of light and at this speed, providing us with breakthrough technology every passing day. But science is as good as the person who is using it. Nuclear power plants can solve the world energy crisis but in wrong hands they are capable of destroying it too.

While taking of church it reveals how church has used illicit methods to restrain reason from taking over the mind of the people. But at the very same time it explores the fact that how much a human brain needs faith to survive this era of exponential scientific growth. In the world were people only have limited time to gain maximum amount of knowledge they are skipping out those moral lessons which are equally importation to humankind. We need to someone to remind us of our karma and this is what should be the goal of faith in the 21^st century. Overall after reading this book I felt that yes, in GOD we trust…