![]() ![]() The Catholic Church ordered a brutal massacre to silence them forever.” So the Church began to … hunt them down and kill them.” In another clip Langdon puts it even more succinctly: “The Illuminati were a secret society dedicated to scientific truth. In the 1500s they started meeting in secret because they were concerned about the Church’s inaccurate teachings, and they were dedicated to scientific truth. ![]() ![]() Here’s how Tom Hanks’s Langdon describes the relevant history in an exchange with Vatican police head Ernesto Olivetti: “The Illuminati … were physicists, mathematicians, astronomers. While the new film doesn’t repeat the specific charge of the murder of Copernicus, it maintains the larger historical context set forth in Brown’s Angels & Demons: the Church’s murderous persecution of science, especially in the Illuminati, a secret society that Brown claims counted Copernicus, Galileo and Bernini among its members. On May 15, the new Ron Howard adaptation of Angels & Demons - reworked as a sequel rather than a prequel to Howard’s 2006 smash The Da Vinci Code - will bring another installment of the Dan Brown version of history to millions of moviegoers. ![]()
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