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The Bible Is Wrong About Moses – The Church of Truth*
The Truth Is… Here are the reasons the bible is wrong about Moses*: The Impossibility of Moses Age. Moses is presented as having written the Torah. He did not. Moses is presented as revered; he should be presented as vilified. * Put the word “allegedly” in front of every reference to Moses. Moses didn’t even […]
Sumer – Joshua J. Mark
Sumer was the southernmost region of ancient Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq and Kuwait) which is generally considered the cradle of civilization. The name comes from Akkadian, the language of the north of Mesopotamia, and means “land of the civilized kings”. The Sumerians called themselves “the black headed people” and their land, in cuneiform script, was simply “the land” or “the land of the black […]
Sumer
Sumer The Sumerian civilization emerged upon the flood plain of the lower reaches of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers about 4000 B.C. The social structure of the Sumerians was decidedly different from other societies of that and later times. The Sumerian communities were city states organized around a temple and ruled by a priesthood. […]
Sumer Timeline
c. 5,400 BCE The City of Eridu is founded. c. 5,000 BCE Godin Tepe settled 5,000 BCE – 1,750 BCE Sumerian civilization in the Tigris-Euphrates valley. c. 5,000 BCE Sumer inhabited by Ubaid people. c. 5,000 BCE Evidence of burial in Sumer. c. 5,000 BCE – 4,100 BCE The Ubaid Period in Sumer. c. 4,500 BCE The Sumerians built their first temple. c. 4,500 BCE The City of Uruk founded. 4,100 BCE – 2,900 BCE Uruk Period in Sumer. c. 3,600 BCE Invention of writing in Sumer at Uruk. c. 3,500 BCE First written evidence […]
Good Sense – Baron Paul Henri D’Holbach
Atwill’s Cranked-up Jesus – Richard Carrier
Joseph Atwill is one of those crank mythers I often get conflated with. Mythicists like him make the job of serious scholars like me so much harder, because people see, hear, or read them and think their nonsense is what mythicism is. They make mythicism look ridiculous. So I have to waste time (oh by […]
Can Bacteria Help Us Understand Religion? Part 1: The Brain-Changing Power of Religious Belief – ValerieTarico.
← Evidence About Jesus is Weaker than You Might Think Can Bacteria Help Us Understand Religion? Part 2: Why We Pass on False Ideas → To progress toward a better future, humanity desperately needs a better understanding of religion. Maybe microbes can help. Religion is one of the most powerful forces in human society. Before the rise […]
God as the Original Terrorist: How the Bible Condones Atrocious Acts of Terror – Valerie Tarico*
BELIEF There are quite a few prescriptions for terrorism in the Bible. Last fall, Dutch pranksters put a cover from a Quran over a Bible and then asked passersby to read aloud homophobic, violent or sexist passages that violate modern moral sensibilities. The texts shocked people who had never immersed themselves in the Iron Age […]
Prof. Ze’ev Herzog info of the Truth of the Hebrews.
Deconstructing the Walls of Jericho Ze’ev Herzog— “‘Herzog is Almost in the Consensus Interview with Israel Finkelstein’“ and — “‘It’s Insignificant’” Many reviews — See response by Hershel Shanks, Herzog’s Attack on the Bible Unjustified” — Helen Jacobus, Unearthing clues to the biblical past — Richard S. Hess, “Early Israel in Canaan, A Survey […]