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The premise of the book is that monotheistic religions took over the world by force in spite of being demonstrably based on fantasy and fabrication. They destroyed the rich diversity of our collective cultural heritage. They imposed their own mindsets and made it a crime to disagree. They set back freedom and diversity by two thousand years. Even now, they justify murder and genocide by reference to their legends and their ‘gods’.
They were so successful that no-one dare talk about it. Yet it is possible to trace a very earthly origin shared by them all.
The cover image is from a Greek manuscript showing the conclave of bishops at the Council of Nicea in 325ce as they present their recommendations to Emperor Constantine. The Christian faith wasn’t so much a word from their god as an editorial mish-mash haggled over for weeks – three centuries after the event.
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Driving out demons or defacing the past?
The Christian clampdown: Constantine burns all the books which contained dissenting opinions.
Spanish monks did the same thing when they found the books of the Mayan people of central America, calling them the work of the devil.
Akhenaten’s celebration of the life giving force of the sun may be the closest we’ll get to any kind of reality in religious belief.
Where it all came from
It seems a rather far fetched coincidence that the ‘true word of god’ sprang up only in such a tiny area of the Earth’s surface. And unstable mostly desert territories at that.
The Middle East, across the so-called Fertile Crescent, sets the improbable scene for all three monotheistic religions that have so taken over our world.
As the book explains, the strife-riven region around the Persian Gulf may well have been the scene for the Garden of Eden legend.
Much of Israel’s story revolves around a battle for identity and recognition, only really achieved since 1948.
Some curiosities
A selection of evidence, ancient and modern.
This 5000 year old Sumerian statue, in The Met in New York, shows how similar was the style of Sumerian writing to early Egyptian hierogrlyphics.
Bishop Irenaeus stated that there could only be four gospels since, amongst other ‘fours’, there were only four ‘cherubim’. As this ancient Egyptian ‘ark’ shows, there were indeed four, one on each side. Irenaus probably didn’t know much about history.
Almalweyya, located in Samarra, Iraq, is described as a ‘spiral minaret’. It’s a Babylonian ziggurat.
More curiosities
The Kaaba in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, a cube that houses a piece of meteoric rock from Abrahamic times. It’s the site of the Hajj pilgrimage.
Treasures acquired by the Vatican following the destruction of ancient Rome.
They’re still at it, offering their idea of solace to travellers at the Renaissance Hotel, London Heathrow Airport, 2018.
Miracle makers
A heavenly sign? No, it’s con trails over Manchester Airport.
The annual ‘Pardon’ when Bretons invoke divine assistance in their fish catches.
A rather pale skinned Mary shedding tears against cancer in the streets of Malaga.
St Peter’s big toe has quite worn away from the unhygenic touch of millions of miracle seekers.
More miracle makers
The Black Madonna of Monserrat with a convenient miracle-inducing touch-hole in its perspex casing.
Modern witchcraft on the streets of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
School children are bussed in to touch the perspex case of this icon in the Cozia Monastery, Romania.
In the image of men
Gods have always been created in the image of men (and sometimes women), never the other way around.
Images of the sun god
Draw your own conclusions
The Assyrian ivory tablet explains that the king or emperor acts as intermediary between the sun and the earth, linking the two to ensure abundance for the people. The Egyptian papyrus says the same thing in a slightly different way.
It looks like Judaism, Christianity and Islam added layers of fantasy on top of this to create their own mystic power plays.
