by Joshua J. Mark The gods of the Mesopotamian region were by no means uniform in name, power, provenance or status in the hierarchy. Mesopotamian culture varied from region to region, from city-state to city-state and, because of this, Marduk should not be regarded as King of the Gods in the same way Zeus ruled […]
Creation Myths
Nanshe – Joshua J. Mark
Nanshe (also known as Nanse, Nazi) is the Sumerian goddess of social justice and divination, whose popularity eventually transcended her original boundaries of southern Mesopotamia toward all points throughout the region in the 3rd millennium BCE. She watched over orphans and widows, oversaw fairness, fresh water, birds and fish, fertility, and favored prophets, giving them […]
The Great Flood Story x 2
Noah’s Ark and the Flood
Points of similarity between the Babylonian and Noachian flood stories Comparing the stories The Chaldean Flood Tablets from the city of Ur in what is now Southern Iraq contain a story that describes how the Babylonian god Enlil had been bothered by the incessant noise generated by humans. He convinced the other gods to […]
Hammurabi and Moses: Law as a Mirror of Civilization – Ken Wolf
Hammurabi and Moses: Law as a Mirror of Civilization excerpted in its entirety from Personalities and Problems, by Ken Wolf (McGraw-Hill: 1999) What do the laws of a society tell us about the lives and beliefs of the people who write, enforce, and obey those laws? What was the chief difference between the law codes […]
I just read “The Greatest Lie Ever Told” by historian W H Uffington …
Douglas Michael King to The Humanist Hub I just read “The Greatest Lie Ever Told” by historian W H Uffington. Caesar’s Messiah proved there is no Jesus. But, this book proves their is no god. It’s a historic scandal. Here are some interesting points he made: According to Genesis 24, Abraham lived in Nahor, not Ur of […]
Ze’ev Herzog and the historicity of the Bible
To what extent can we reasonably treat the stories of the Bible as actual historical events? On a recent visit to Tel Aviv, I had a fascinating interview with Dr. Ze’ev Herzog, a distinguished Israeli archaeologist and a leading figure in the debate regarding the “historicity” of the Hebrew Bible, or what Christians call the Old Testament. […]
Yahweh’s Assimilation of West Semitic Deities – pdf
Religious Lies Refuted – Let the Twilight of Religion Begin…
Please use this box below to search this site – Is it love to tell people that an all-good personal God exists? No, because it is to say that people should not be valued above all but he should for he is all-good and better than us and because all good including ours is […]
How God Works (preview) – Marshall Brian
BY ELIMINATING THE TANGLES IN YOUR RELIGIOUS THINKING, YOU STOP BELIEVING IN GOD Are you a religious person? Do you believe in God or Allah or Jesus? If so, then I would like to show you something about yourself that may really surprise you. It comes from the breakthrough book How God Works. Here […]