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"Ancient Origins" Writer Claims the Constellation Orion Made Jesus Walk on Water

12/22/2018

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​Ancient Origins ran a couple of unusual articles by John McHugh this week about the Biblical story of how Jesus walked on water, and they were… weird. McHugh correctly notes that the different versions of the story recorded by the Gospel writers are not identical, and he is also right that the Biblical authors wrote long after the events they claimed to record. But then Hugh tries to argue that the story is astrological and revolves around Greek mythology and Mesopotamian linguistic puns. This seems like a bridge too far for me, particularly since there are more immediate potential cultural influences for a story of walking on water than long-lost Mesopotamian wordplay.
​Attempts to explain that miracle of the walking on water have fallen into a few categories. Some have tried to argue that the event really happened and was supernatural in origin. Others have explained it as confusion by the Apostles, who actually saw Jesus walking on the seashore or standing on a sandbar. (This is a particularly silly rationalization.) Still others have declared it a complete fabrication. Perhaps the most interesting set of explanations revolves around parallels with the contemporary Greek and Jewish worlds. For example, 2 Maccabees 5:21 writes that the arrogant ruler Antiochus was so prideful that he thought he could turn the land into sea and make the sea passable by foot. Several Greek writers also wrote of walking on water as an almost proverbially impossible act.
 
Given this, there is no particular reason to imagine a complex astronomical symbolism when there are simpler alternatives that better fit with how the audience for the Gospels would have understood the story in its cultural context.
 
Anyway, McHugh, who holds a master’s in archaeology from Brigham Young University, relates the story to Greek mythology, but of a decided older cast. He cites Hesiod to the effect that the ancient hunter and giant Orion could walk on water: “there was given him as a gift the power of walking upon the waves as though upon land” (trans. Hugh Evelyn-White). The line comes from Pseudo-Eratosthenes’ Catasterismi, which cites the Astronomia attributed to Hesiod. While the ancients all believed this to be a genuinely archaic poem, some modern scholars believe it to be a Hellenistic forgery. Either way, it predates the Jesus story by at least a few centuries.
 
McHugh writes that Vergil, Pseudo-Hyginus, and Pseudo-Apollodorus both wrote the same of Orion, though this isn’t strictly true. Hyginus (Astronomica 2.34) certainly did, but Vergil (Aeneid 10.763ff.) writes that Orion walked through the waters—i.e., he was so big that he waded through them. Pseudo-Apollodorus (Library 1.4.3) says that Poseidon gave him the power to stride across the sea.
 
McHugh locates this story in the stars because Orion’s constellation stands near to water-themed constellations. “Orion’s outstretched legs portray him striding away from celestial land and onto the astral “Sea” delineated by the eight, contiguous aquatic constellations consisting of the Dolphin, Goatfish, Southern Fish, Water-pourer, Sea Serpent, River, Twin-Fishes, and Ship.” This is a difficult argument since Orion stands atop Lepus, a rabbit, and the proximity of one constellation to another is no real indication of its role in the Greek mythology of Hellenistic times. A particular challenge comes from the fact that the Greek constellations were in many cases adaptations of Babylonian ones, which only imperfectly correlated with Archaic Greek myths. The story of Orion, for example, is so old that much of whatever his original myth had been was lost, leaving only traces.
 
But McHugh’s entire framework is also off. He thinks that Orion’s myth transferred to Jesus in a three-part process:
The first is the Hellenic belief that the constellations portrayed an incontrovertible pictographic record of sacred history. The second was the belief Jesus had ascended into ouranos, the “sky, heaven”, which is precisely where one finds these hallowed, stellar still-frames. And the third was the Mesopotamian belief that polysemous meanings embedded in the constellation-gods’ cuneiform title imparted immaculate knowledge.
​The Greeks did not consider the constellations to be “sacred” history, since polytheistic Greeks did not consider their myths to be sacred stories in the same sense that Abrahamic faiths considered their writings to be sacred. Nor were the constellations “incontrovertible.” Indeed, no two ancient authorities tended to agree on what exactly the constellations depicted. The myths and legends associated with them had so many variants that Apollodorus spent most of his time just listing what different writers had to say.
 
But here is the weirdest part of McHugh’s analysis, building on the idea that the story of the magi in the Gospels proves that the writers were familiar with “Mesopotamian astrological esoterica” in detail, and not simply in general or by reputation:
Moreover, cuneiform astronomical-astrological texts refer to Orion by the Sumerian title DINGIR DA-MU. And since DA-MU meant “child” or “son” in Sumerian, the name rendered “Son-god”. DINGIR was the Sumerian word for “god” and it also served as a logogram which stood for the Akkadian word sha/“of”. Therefore, polysemous readings encrypted in one of Orion’s titles yielded the words: “Son, Of, God”.
I am at a loss as to where McHugh gathered this information. The name he ascribes to Orion appears in no source I could find. Its ancient name was Sipa.zi.an.na in Sumerian and MUL.APIN in Babylonian, according to scholarly sources. It doesn’t help that McHugh mixes together Sumerian and Babylonian material without distinguishing clearly between the two.
 
McHugh also alleges that that the boat involved in the Jesus story was Jason’s Argo from Greek myth:
The Greek Argo appears to be the derivative of a Mesopotamian “Cargo-Ship” written Makurru in Akkadian, or MA 2-GUR8 in Sumerian. Cuneiform literature describes the Makurru-boat as a divine ship constellation stationed in the southern reaches of the night sky; and it has its prow torn off in a popular religious myth. Thus it’s hard to imagine a better correlation between two constellations: the Greek Argo—like the Mesopotamian Makurru-boat—is a deified ship positioned in the southern region of the night sky that, astonishingly, is missing its bow!
​Ugh. I don’t really feel up to going into this in detail, but the Greek constellation Argo Navis—later divided into three smaller ones—is not of Sumerian origin. Instead, it is one of the oldest Greek constellations, for which evidence dates back prior to the Greek adoption of Babylonian astronomy c. 500 BCE. The constellation is believed to have an Egyptian origin, at least according to the Greeks (specifically, Plutarch), and there is no evidence whatsoever that the Sumerians or Babylonians recognized it as a ship-shaped constellation. The claim comes from pan-Babylonist-inspired claims that the zodiac and all the constellations are the Epic of Gilgamesh writ into the stars, but there is no evidence in favor of the claim. The pan-Babylonist writers believed that the Epic of Gilgamesh was itself a zodiac, with each tablet corresponding to a constellation, but such Victorian and Edwardian fantasies were long ago demolished. That they have been revived here is unsurprising but nevertheless depressing.
58 Comments
Job IX:7-9
12/22/2018 09:02:20 am

He speaks to the sun and it does not shine;
he seals off the light of the stars.
He alone stretches out the heavens
and treads on the waves of the sea.
He is the Maker of the Bear and Orion,
the Pleiades and the constellations of the south.

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Machala
12/22/2018 09:22:00 am

Jesus walked on water .... because he knew where the rocks were.

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Titus pullo
12/22/2018 10:51:52 am

Really enjoyed reading this. Funny note: a colleague in her late twenties used the term “a bridge too far” in a discusion. I asked her whete the term was from and she thought it was sbout a bridge that collapsed cause it was too long. Knowledge of history evaporates by generation it seems, i told her it was about operation “market garden”
Her reply...
“Its about a garden”?

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American Cool "disco" Dan
12/22/2018 07:03:48 pm

"Funny note: a colleague in her late twenties..."

Did she use it incorrectly or did your boner just take control? Asking for a friend.

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American Cool "Disco" Dan
12/22/2018 11:22:15 am

Sounds like Mr. McHugh went full Sitchin. Never go full Sitchin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6WHBO_Qc-Q

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An Anonymous Nerd
12/22/2018 11:49:33 am

I commented. Fortunately the article wasn't as bad as I was expecting just, as I commented....Reaching really far to make the inferences.

So what's the deal with "Ancient Origins?" Is it a "real" ancient history site with click-bait trimmings or is it a "fringe" ancient history site with some reality sprinkled in to make the lies more credible?

-An Anonymous Nerd

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Accumulated Wisdom
12/23/2018 02:35:16 am

My knowledge of the Sumerian language stems from Sitchin, and Dr. V. I really can't speak to the veracity of his linguistic evidence, however, he's not too far off the mark. If he would just realize the barly reference is Spica.

"Sailing towards the Giants knees"

The Giant who stowed away on Noah's Zodiac

Jack plants 3 magic beans- Orion's Belt
The beanstalk- Tree of Life
Goose that laid golden egg- Pleiades
Golden egg- the Sun or Beetlegeaux
The Giant brought down by Jack

The Widow holding baby above her head

St. Columba

ALL refer to ORION



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Accumulated Wisdom
12/23/2018 02:52:39 am

Please quit looking for proof of biblical Giants. They are stars. Of course there have been some very large people in the past, and the present. The codes which have been taken literally, actually refer to Stars. Quit seeking out ancient Boogeymen that didn't exist. Just look up.

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Accumulated Wisdom
12/23/2018 05:45:02 pm

Orion/Mary had a Little Sirius/Lamb
Whose fleece was white as snow
Everywhere that Orion/Mary went
The Sirius/Lamb was sure to go

Think symbolically and a whole new world will open to you.

American Cool "Disco" Dan
12/23/2018 03:25:48 am

So you're saying you know nothing about Sumerian? Listing things you know nothing about is really going the long way round, don't you think?

"AMERICAN COOL "DISCO" DAN
12/5/2018 07:25:53 pm
"2. The idea of monotheistic dualism can be traced to Zecharia Sitchin. He literally coined the term."

Not just no but F|_|CK NO. Badger used it in 1918 in his Zoroastrianism and Judaism. I do not assert that this is the first use of the term.

Even without research, Sitchin and anyone who relies on him can reliably be contradicted on anything whatsoever."

https://www.sitchiniswrong.com/

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Machala
12/23/2018 10:09:51 am

¡FELIZ NAVIDAD y PRÓSPERO AÑO NUEVO! - ¡A TODOS!

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Joe Scales
12/23/2018 08:47:33 pm

Have a Merry One yourself Machala; and to all the good sports.

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Dr. Philip
12/24/2018 12:26:03 am

Jason, I’m curious on your thoughts going into the new year with major breakthroughs expected: 1) The brothers on the Curse of Oak Island show have found a verifiable Roman artifact from the first or second century AD on the island and more Roman’s artifacts are expected. 2) Hutton Pulitzer is announcing that his big documentary on the 90 foot stone is finally coming, which he claims he acquired through the help of a congressman and has irrefutable proof of ancient contact and much more. 3) Scott Wolter has a highly anticipated book coming out in Spring on the Cermona Document and Sinclair Journals and is going to make a big media announcement on items they have found and those they plan to dig up. It looks like it’s going to be a big banner year!

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Americqan Cool "Disco" Dan
12/24/2018 08:21:59 am

1) lie
2) lie
3) lie

Do you see how my numbered list is better than yours in terms of layout? Do you have issues that you might want us to be charitable about? Because you seem like an idiot. That said, have a nice day.

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Joe Scales
12/24/2018 10:04:18 am

Probably Philjaw passing through once more. The show is teasing that they found the (non-existent) 90 foot stone, so Philjaw jumps on it to promote a scam of his own. Standard operating procedure.

Jim
12/24/2018 10:27:29 am

The history books will have to be rewritten twice, once for philyawns 90 foot stone and once for the brothers 90 foot stone.
As far as Wolter goes, I give you a quote from Diana Muir:

"I've also learned to what lengths some people will go to hide the truth and make the journals disappear."

This of course comes after she herself made the journals disappear.

American cool "disco" dan
12/24/2018 03:27:34 pm

There's a very strong Three Stooges aspect to this Sinclair Journals business. Is it possible that Scott and his associates are doing some sort of Blair Witch Project spread over a decade or so? My thinking is no, because our Scott is an idiot. But if you need to overpay someone with other peoples' budget to describe a rock I'm sure he's listed in a directory where you can find a competent guy.

If this is all kayfabe it's magnificent but our Scott's lack of brain is visible in his eyes. Or have I been fooled? Possible but not likely.

So what
12/24/2018 02:07:57 pm

"Scott Wolter has a highly anticipated book coming out in Spring on the Cermona Document"

Does anyone really care - Wolter himself has now become history

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Dr. Philip link
12/24/2018 02:18:57 pm

Guys, i'm not sure where all the animosity is coming from. I'm just passing through and sharing this information. I thought this was a place we can debate and verify such claims. The brothers did find a Roman Pilum on the show recently and it was verified by metal and antiquity experts. Say what you might about all of them, but all these guys have a huge audiences (more than all of us combined) and people do listen to them so we should have a worthy scholarly focus on their claims. Here's the article about the Roman Pilum:
https://www.bostonstandard.co.uk/whats-on/arts/lincolnshire-treasure-hunter-finds-roman-artefact-on-oak-island-which-could-rewrite-history-1-8729530

Joe Scales
12/24/2018 03:05:11 pm

So you want to debate? Well, assuming you're not Philyaw… and I for one won't make said assumption... but for kicks and giggles, have a look here:

http://www.criticalenquiry.org/oakisland/index.shtml

Rather than display your ignorance here, take a look at the site above. Review all the research. Then come back and make a cogent argument for treasure on Oak Island. Then again... cogent arguments were never your cup of tea. Fraud and bilking the gullible for cash; now that's more your speed.

Dr. Philip
12/24/2018 03:25:54 pm

Joe, I don't know who philyawns is. And please don't be so ignorant here. Read the article for the new Roman artifact:

Metal detection expert Gary Drayton, who lived in Spilsby and Boston before moving to the US, discovered what was initially believed to be an old ‘Templar’ iron crossbow bolt on the island’s south-west shore. This has since been examined by antiquities expert Gabriel Vandervort, who states the object is actually a Roman ‘pilum’ - the metal tip of a throwing spear. He says this was used by the Romans as much as 2,000 years ago, ‘between the the first century BC to the fifth century AD’. After unearthing the pilum about 10 inches under the surface, Gary said: “Wow - that is unbelievable! This is very, very old!” before kissing it.

As reported by the Standard back in December 2015, this weapon piece is part of a growing body of evidence that Romans did indeed travel to the New World long before Colombus made landfall in 1492. Although a sword allegedly found off the coast of Oak Island was initially believed to be Roman, but later deemed to be a Victorian-era replica, there are numerous other artefacts and clues which point to the theory Romans sailed to the New World in antiquity.

Read more at: https://www.bostonstandard.co.uk/whats-on/arts/lincolnshire-treasure-hunter-finds-roman-artefact-on-oak-island-which-could-rewrite-history-1-8729530

Machala
12/24/2018 05:12:16 pm

Dr. Phillip,
Have you ever heard the term "salting the mine" ? Whether or not this so called Roman pilum is real or a clever forgery is beside the point. The major issue here is that the item - along with all the other "spectacular" finds on Oak Island have been PLANTED either by the shows producers or the principle actors themselves. History Channel has a long, sordid past (and present) reputation of "enhancing" the discoveries and finds on their shows/ We all know that to hype the entertainment value, shows like Storage Wars, for example, are not only scripted but the finds are often placed in the lockers by the shows producers.

If you believe all the crap put out by Curse of Oak Island, Scot Wolter and Putzer..er ... Pulitzer, than perhaps I might interest you in a gold mine I happen to own in Arizona. I can even show you the gold in the mine.

Joe Scales
12/25/2018 08:10:55 pm

"Joe, I don't know who philyawns is."

Yeah, but we both know who Philjaw is. It is you. Imbecile.

Dr. Philip
12/27/2018 03:56:46 am

Joe Scales,

Wolter is just getting started. You're a nobody man. I would love to debate you if you actually were serious and stop staying stupid immature stuff on this site and calling me "Philjaw" and claiming my identity is Hutton. I am not Hutton. Repeat I AM NOT HUTTON.

When's your book coming out? Where's your TV show? Where is your documentary? Right you just sit here and defame people. A lot of this stuff is NOT conventional and thus its very hard for you to understand as it doesn't fit into your small mental boxes. You have a hard time understanding why cross Atlantic trade was kept a trade secret for economic reasons and why Templars had secret knowledge they needed to protect from persecution, etc. Once you understand the CONTEXT and CIRCUMSTANCES, it will start to make sense. Please take a moment to be open minded and do some research. Then maybe you will start to respect them, even if you don't agree with them, as its not easy being unconventional.

A new age is upon us..

Joe Scales
12/27/2018 10:31:30 am

Whatever gave you the impression this was a debate Philjaw? Scott Wolter is a liar and a fraud. You are a liar and a fraud. Truth is a complete defense to defamation.

You are also an imbecile.

Bezalel
12/28/2018 08:20:02 am

Scales
Tsk Tsk
Name-calling after being bitched slapped by a nobody actually proves dr. Phil's point. Doesn't matter if Philyaw or Wolter are frauds, you expose yourself as uneducated failed skeptic who can't do real research yourself.
Run along back under the bridge with your eff-buddy ACDC before I box your ears and send my three goats after you, troll

And to paraphrase John Dee: educate yourself, get a real degree, learn how to do real research at the proper depth or STFU.
Without proper background skepticism is a real limp dick. No one needs philyaw looking good because of your response "you got me so now I name call you"

Lots of right wing posers do that though.

Run along

Bezalel
12/28/2018 08:22:29 am

ACDD
not ACDC

I apologize to ACDC for associating their pre-teen junk ass music with something even worse

Joe Scales
12/28/2018 11:31:47 am

I suppose if you're high enough, you'll see what you wish to see.

American Cool "Disco" Dan
12/30/2018 08:44:11 am

While we're at it, let's look at "You have a hard time understanding why cross Atlantic trade was kept a trade secret for economic reasons"

How differently the Spanish handled it: "Hey! There's gold over there and we're recruiting a bunch of guys to go get it! Tell your friends!"

'Splain that, Lucy.

An Anonymous Nerd
12/24/2018 10:11:36 pm

[verifiable Roman artifact]

One artifact, or even a collection of artifacts, could be anything from a plant to the remnants of a modern collection. (If I have a house with 10 Roman swords in the basement, and my house collapses and people find the swords years later, it doesn't mean the Romans were there.) What archaeologists look for is the remnants of everyday life. That's what provides context.

Indeed, trans-Atlantic Roman expansion is he least-likely explanation for finding anything Roman in the Americas. The Romans had records. Many have been lost but not enough to keep us from knowing about such a thing had it been true. Also nothing I've read describes the Romans as a great sea power. And they sure had a lot more places to go in their immediate vicinity before they could've thought about exploring the ocean and conquering whatever was out there.

[90 foot stone]

Part of the hoax of Oak Island for anyone who didn't know. The brothers, from the little I've read, look for it but, of course, don't find it, because none of this is actually real.

[Sinclair Journals ]

As I have pointed out on Wolter's own blog, it takes a lot of sheer faith to believe in any of the claims made about those journals. Wolter responded to this by making even more claims.

Having said that I would not be surprised by another banner year for the Fringe. This is very much their time. It doesn't mean any of their fantasies are accurate, just that they're popular. Lots of people saw the "Lord of the Rings" movies and the "The Avengers" movies too. And that stuff is more realistic than most of the Fringe.

-An Anonymous Nerd

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Dr. Philip
12/27/2018 03:37:16 am

Anonymous Nerd,

Did if ever occur to you that many ancient civilizations kept the location of the America's a secret and had a major incentive to safeguard very lucrative economic trade and so hence it was a heavily guarded "trade secret" of the ancient world. They would protect this knowledge at all coast by creating false myths of sea monsters and they even sunk their own ships if necessary (which the Phoenicians did after several Roman ships followed them into the Atlantic ocean). Of course they never kept any of these logs in public files. New technology is now bringing forth new discoveries that is going to fundamentally transform this "old establishment" thinking into a new understanding of humanity. Yesterdays fridge is tomorrow's mainstream. Yes a big banner year is coming indeed and the Joe Scales of the world will need to find a new blog hobby.

Dr. Philip

Joe Scales
12/27/2018 10:36:55 am

"Yesterdays fridge is tomorrow's mainstream."

Philjaw, at least you're an expert at emptying refrigerators. I'll grant you that. Your mind is still on those holiday leftovers, no doubt. Enjoy!

American Cool "Disco" Dan
12/27/2018 11:44:28 am

"they even sunk their own ships if necessary (which the Phoenicians did after several Roman ships followed them into the Atlantic ocean)."

Let's think about that brilliant strategy for a minute.

An Anonymous Nerd
12/27/2018 08:46:35 pm

This post addresses Dr. Philip's long post in this thread.

Dr. Philip: Everything you've said requires a lot of assumptions, each of which would have to be proved as a separate premise, especially given how extreme each one is. So you'd need a lot of proof or a sheer amount of faith in your own ideas (kindest word I have at present), such that this would go beyond reason.

Further such a thing would have proof by definition, and a lot of it. There'd be physical artifacts -- and not just the isolated out-of-place artifacts of the Fringe imagination. There'd be the debris of everyday life. There'd be records that we could find even if they weren't public at the time.

And there's just not any of it.

Indeed there's the opposite of proof. There are specific reasons to not believe this stuff.

Take the Romans: Nothing I've read suggests that the Romans were great seafarers and they'd kinda have to be to pull this off. Nothing I've read suggests the Romans were shy about letting folks know they had conquered a place. Or, for that matter, letting the local folks know they had been conquered.

My bet is that if I'd read as much about the Phoenicians as I have about the Romans, my take would be similar for them -- that there were specific reasons not to believe this account, not to mention no positive reason to believe it.

As another example, let's take this premise.

[sunk their own ships if necessary (which the Phoenicians did after several Roman ships followed them into the Atlantic ocean)]

Again you'd need to show this happened, then you'd need to show that the Phoenicians didn't sink their own boats for some other reason (like fear of getting captured)...Then let's not even talk about the obvious question of why the Phoenicians wouldn't just keep sailing until the Romans lost track (what are the odds the Romans could out-maneuver the Phoenicians on the high seas), or turn back, or attack the Romans, or take any other options than self-destruction at sea.

Oh: the Phoenicians' height and the Romans' height were as I recall centuries apart. Technically the cultures did overlap but let us not forget that for a long time Rome was just another backwater. There is a considerable gap between that and the Rome we know. I've yet to hear someone say "The Romans" and mean to refer to the backwater days. So, again, specific reasons to doubt something like this could, let alone did, happen.

-An Anonymous Nerd

Willard
12/24/2018 11:07:41 am

Well, it appears that the survey Jason Colavito took on the first of December about how to handle blog comments was a complete, total waste of time and effort. The insults are still coming fast and furious while Jason appears to be doing nothing. I thought it was too much to ask of him to actually do something, easier to ignore the problem.

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Jason Colavito link
12/24/2018 12:32:13 pm

I've been sick, and it's Christmas. You expect that I should be spending all day reading blog comments?

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Willard
12/24/2018 03:12:08 pm

Just as I expected, more excuses. You should have American Cool "Disco" Dan respond. It really has become his blog.

American Cool "Disco" Dan
12/24/2018 02:43:19 pm

Willard:

Cite the insult you're talking about and we can have a fruitful discussion. If it's just "he called an idiot an idiot and it made me feel bad" then that's also good in an "everyone gets a trophy" kind of way..

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Joe Scales
12/24/2018 03:08:57 pm

"I thought it was too much to ask of him to actually do something, easier to ignore the problem."

Actually, it's much easier for you to simply leave than hound our host with your nonsense.

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Willard
12/25/2018 02:21:10 pm

You are correct, this blog is no longer worth the time and effort being devoted to it. Jason Colavito is a nice person and processed a wealth of knowledge about the subjects he writes about. However, he is also a total wuss and is unable or unwilling to police this blog and when called about it only makes excuses.

Joe Scales
12/25/2018 08:05:45 pm

So now calling him names will help? Too bad you really won't leave.

The big day
12/24/2018 07:07:44 pm

Even though there are two contradictory nativity stories

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American Cool "Disco" Dan
12/24/2018 09:08:33 pm

I don't care enough to chase it down, so I will stipulate that there are two. You do know that there are two genealogies for Jesus, RIGHT? And that there are three Creation stories, RIGHT?

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THE BIG DAY
12/25/2018 05:19:51 am

Is there anything I don't know
I have been reading the German protestant critical analyses for decades
Bultmann, etc

American cool "disco" dan
12/25/2018 12:02:18 pm

You're an idiot but the Baby Jesus wouldn't want ,me to make too big a deal of it. Check back when you can read Hebrew. Or English.

Herod and Quirinius
12/25/2018 10:49:51 pm

Herod died before the census of Quirinius.
The story of the massacre of the innocents is modelled on Exodus 1:22

An Over-Educated Grunt
12/25/2018 01:03:14 pm

Tell us about the French masons, George.

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THE BIG DAY
12/25/2018 10:34:59 pm

FORGET THE FRENCH
THE CORNERSTONE OF THE HOUSE OF CONGRESS
CAPITOL HILL

UNDER-EDUCATED MORON
12/25/2018 10:40:00 pm

I didn't know that the Grand Orient and the Assemblée Nationale had a common history

French Connection
12/25/2018 10:46:13 pm

Bernard Faÿ, La Franc-Maçonnerie et la Révolution Intellectuélle du XVIIIe Siècle, 1935

Mildred J. Headings, French Freemasonry Under The Third Republic (John Hopkins University Studies In Historical and Political Science LXVI: Number 1) (1949)

Freermasonry Is Only A Social Club
12/25/2018 11:38:41 pm

Like the Rotary Club
And the Buffaloes
That's all Freemasonry is

That's the biggest load of ignorance that Over-Educated Grunt believes in, and reveals what an ordinary thinker that person is, basing things on coffee table books

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Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks
12/25/2018 11:43:00 pm

Let's not omit The Elks

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Grand Worshipful Master
12/25/2018 11:50:43 pm

The trouble is that the subject matter of Freemasonry is part of the history of conspiracy theories, and some people have decided to conclude that Freemasonry belongs to the world of conspiracy theory and nothing else.

An Over-Educated Grunt
12/26/2018 10:36:03 am

Yeah, nothingconspiratorial about repeatedly claiming that the masons control a government or two behind the scenes.

Entered Apprentice
12/26/2018 01:32:37 pm

"Yeah, nothingconspiratorial about repeatedly claiming that the masons control a government or two behind the scenes"

You've been reading too many of those coffee table books.

.

Secular Sid
12/26/2018 01:36:21 pm

Yeah, not a single Christian among the founding fathers of the United States - how could there be, the American Constitution was all about the rights of man.

How many in Fance?
12/26/2018 06:11:07 pm

How many people in France would agree with Over-Educated Grunt?

Freemasonry is certainly not a conspiracy theory in France, where the Republic and the Grand Orient both have common origins during the French Revolution and the relationship continues to this very day.

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Funny
12/26/2018 06:21:48 pm

It's a well-known fact that Freemasonry has been channelled for all sorts of different political activities all over the world.

There's always a minority that are ignorant.

The role played by the Grand Orient in France is well-documents. The scholarly work by Mildred Headings has already been cited in relation to France.

The connection between the French Revolution and American War of Independence is there for everyone to see. France unsuccessfully tried to eradicate Roman Catholicism, replacing it with the cult of Marianne - its American parallel being the goddess Columbia.

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        • Fragments on Giants
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        • Ragnarok: The Age of Fire and Gravel
        • Origins of the Egyptian People
        • The Secret Doctrine >
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        • Prince Henry Sinclair
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        • Richard Shaver's Proofs
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      • The Skeptical Poltergeist
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      • Queen of the Black Coast
      • A Martian Odyssey
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      • The Migration of Symbols
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