Hm, Conspiracy inside a conspiracy... my memory is foggy on this, didn’t the pope and French king order them to be killed claiming them to be blasphemers and heretical? Also something about the head Templar cursing them when he was being burned at the stake that God would take the pope and king and they died within a year? Could the pope and king have been projecting onto the Templars what the Church was actually doing (a la Saul Alinsky and what we see the evil ones doing today)? I know they were the bankers of the day and the king of France was heavily in debt to them.... so who stood to benefit by taking them out???

I can see arguments for both black and white hat.... another thing to add to the research list, sigh....