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Madonna and Child
Lucas Barnes
Carter Thompson
The nineteenth-century Scottish minister Alexander Hislop claimed in his book The Two Babylons (1853) that Semiramis was an actual person in ancient Mesopotamia who invented polytheism and, with it, goddess worship.[24] Modern scholars have unanimously rejected the book's arguments as erroneous and based on a flawed understanding of the texts,[25][26] but variations of them are accepted among some groups of evangelical Protestants.[25][26]
Hislop believed that Semiramis was a consort and mother of Nimrod, builder of the Bible's Tower of Babel, although biblical mention of consorts to Nimrod is lacking.[25] Hislop believed Semiramis and Nimrod's incestuous male offspring to be the Akkadian deity Tammuz, a god of vegetation, as well as a life-death-rebirth deity. Hislop maintained that all divine pairings in religions, such as Isis and Osiris and Aphrodite and Cupid, are retellings of the tale of Semiramis and Tammuz. Hislop took literary references to Osiris and Orion as "seed of woman" as evidence in support of his thesis. This all led up to Hislop's central claim: that the Catholic Church is a veiled continuation of the pagan religion of ancient Babylon, the product of a millennia-old secret conspiracy founded by Semiramis and Nimrod.[25]
Hislop's claims are still circulated among some groups of evangelical Protestants,[25][26] in the form of Jack Chick tracts,[27] comic books, and related media. Author and conspiracy theorist David Icke incorporates Hislop's claims about Semiramis into his book The Biggest Secret, claiming that Semiramis also had a key role in the Reptilian alien conspiracy that he asserts is secretly controlling humanity.[28]
Scholars have dismissed Hislop's speculations as incorrect and based on misunderstandings.[25][26] Lester L. Grabbe has highlighted the fact that Hislop's argument, particularly his association of Ninus with Nimrod, is based on a misunderstanding of historical Babylon and its religion.[25] Grabbe also criticizes Hislop for portraying Semiramis as Nimrod's consort, despite the fact that she is never even mentioned in a single text associated with him,[25] and for portraying her as the "mother of harlots", even though this is not how she is depicted in any of the texts where she is mentioned.[25] Ralph Woodrow has stated that Alexander Hislop was an exceptionally poor researcher who "picked, chose and mixed" portions of various unrelated myths from many different cultures.[29]
Joshua Myers
I used to be one of those faggots, then I did some actual research. Still makes me cringe.
Luke Robinson
Sounds like something for >>>/x/
Gavin Hernandez
>Protestant fairy tales sounds like something for >>>/x/
Well, you are right
Jaxon White
Can you describe what was deleted?
(bump for Stopo64watcher)
Noah Richardson
Bentley Taylor
Tyler Barnes
Carson Rogers
From the thumbnail of this picture, I thought Mary was staring in confusion and/or pain at her own oversized, Popeye-like hands.