Is there a secret connecting link between Templars and Switzerland?

Question

I have read that there are many things in common....

Answer 1

I assume you are referring to the book "The Warriors and the Bankers" by Alan Butler and Stephen Dafoe.

Their reasoning is as follows,

1. The founding of the embryonic Switzerland conforms exactly to the period when the Templars were being persecuted in France.

2. Switzerland is just to the east of France and would have been particularly easy for fleeing Templar brothers from the whole region of France to get to.

3. In the history of the first Swiss Cantons there are tales of white coated knights mysteriously appearing and helping the locals to gain their independence against foreign domination.

4. The Templars were big in banking, farming and engineering (of an early type). These same aspects can be seen as inimical to the commencement and gradual evolution of the separate states that would eventually be Switzerland.

5. Even the Swiss don't really know the ins and outs of their earliest history (or suggest that they don't.) They are famous for being secretive and we don't have to tell interested readers that this is something they share absolutely with the Templars.

6. The famous Templar Cross is incorporated into the flags of many of the Swiss Cantons. As are other emblems, such as keys and lambs, that were particularly important to the Knights Templar.

7. The Swiss were and are famous for their religious tolerance - and so were the Templars.

Most of this seems to be unsubstantiated selective "evidence" to me. By the same method you could prove that the Isle of Wight is Atlantis because they are both islands and they are both west of the Pillars of Hercules.

The words "jumping" and "bandwagon" spring to mind........

Answer 2

Between Templars and Switzerland, have not ever heard that. There is a somewhat plausible theory that the Templars escaped to Scotland, well the ones that escaped. There also is a theory that the Templar fleet turned privateer.

Answer 3

If there is a secret connecting them I highly doubt anyone on Yahoo Answers would divulge it, much less know it! :-)

Answer 4

Of course. Both worship , both are the gaurdians of reality, both drink human , and both revere Al Gore as the bringer of .

Answer 5

You've been reading the da Vinci code again ...

Answer 6

Same flag

Answer 7

I'm not telling you
It's a secret

Answer 8

my partner said "if i told you that he would have to come and shoot you".
it`s a secret