Two Babylons or the Papal Worship Proved to be the Worship of Nimrod and His Wife

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Summary: Unreliable!!!
Review: One author, Ralph Woodrow, who used Hislop's material actually had the sence to check it out for himself. To his astonishment, he found out it was full of errors - top to bottom. People who thrive after material like this would probably long for the writings of David Duke and Louis Farrakhahn as well. Time to grow up people!

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Summary: Unreliable!!!
Review: One author, Ralph Woodrow, who used Hislop's material actually had the sense to check it out for himself. To his astonishment, he found out it was full of errors - top to bottom. People who thrive after material like this would probably long for the writings of David Duke and Louis Farrakhahn as well. Time to grow up people!

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Summary: Here find little-known roots of western civilization.
Review: There are roots of western civilization mentioned in this book that you would be challenged to find in any western civ. course in any university. The bibliography is impressive.

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Summary: Enlightening
Review: After reading Rev. Hishops book twice, one only need to compare this book with the unorthodox, nonapostolic doctrines of Catholicism, to answer the question (is all this true?) The shape of the new testament shows that the early church's primary aim was to submit fully to the teachings of Christ passed down to the apostles. In that purpose they shaped the character of Christianity for all to follow. This book gives proof to the paganistic doctorines of popery, maryology, baptismal regeneration, pentance, purgatory, limbo, mediatrix of Mary, rosary, sacred heart worship, prayers to the dead, idol worship, relics, etc.... Rome needs to answer where did they come up with these nonchristian doctrines? and why? Paul warned in Col:2;8 beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world and not after Christ. I must agree that the Roman church has much to answer for. If you have ever wondered where they could have come up with these cultic teachings, read this book.

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Summary: A genuinely wonderful though now dated work.
Review: "Two Babylons" is a stunning read for those who think they understand Christianity but have failed to do the research. I fail to give it five stars because it is not accurate on many points and is written with extreme Protestant bias. Taken as a whole, however, the book is a fascinating tour of ancient mythology and its influence on Christianity. No one who reads the book and takes the time to follow up with some research can deny its basic premise that Catholicism takes much of its symbolism and doctrine from other forms of ancient worship. Even Protestantism carries much of this baggage to this day. The book becomes pure speculation at the end, but even with this failing is worth every penny of its price.

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Summary: Lunatic Fringe
Review: This book is for the lunatic fringe. No doubt they still believe the earth if flat! This book is propaganda not history. It simply confirms the prejudice of the simple-minded.

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Summary: Kinda hard to follow/understand
Review: This author uses some words/phrases that are hard to follow and understand. The content is great though.

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Summary: This book is dangerously inaccurate
Review: Mr.Hislop's position seems to be, that lots of ceremonies, practices and beliefs are found in Catholicism which were found in Babylonian religion, therefore Catholicism is Babylonian paganism. By this logic, an unsympathetic critic of the Old Testament could easily "prove" that circumcision is a pagan practice - the Egyptians practiced it. The Babylonians had their prophets, the Egyptians had proverbs;the Pharaoh Akhnaten (about 1350)wrote a prayer which resembles Psalm 104. Therefore (some might say) the Old Testament is full of paganism. The method he uses to show that Catholicism is Babylonian by religion, is a powerful weapon against belief in the Trinity & other Christian doctrines - as the Jehovah's Witnesses show by using this book. One of his main arguments involves taking words, whether Latin or French or Chinese does not matter, and squeezing a Hebrew or Egyptian word or phrase from them. Thus,he does not ask how the goddess Bellona can be shown to have a "Chaldee" name meaning "lamenter of Bel", but takes this as certain, by arguing from analogies which are themselves not firmly established. Does he ask how a Roman goddess has a "Chaldee" name? No. In fairness, it must be said that a huge amount is now known about the background of the Bible which was not known when Hislop wrote. The information at his disposal was slight indeed, so that his arguments were built on weak foundations. This book is definitely out of date. The remarkable thing is that it has been so influential.

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Summary: TOP OF THE LINE FOR TRUTH
Review: I HAVE HAD THIS GREAT BOOK FOR ABOUT 35 YEARS,I HAVE STUDIED WITH IT AND IT IS UNDER LINED AND MARKED UP FROM COVER TO COVER MY BOOK IS DATED 1921 PRINTED BY S.W. PARTRIDGE & CO. LTD. GROSVENOR GARDENS, VICTORIA 1921 THERE ARE ONLY TWO COPIES IN CANADA FROM THE LAST WORD I HAD FROM THE UNIVERATIES.BOTH REPRINTS FROM THE 50'S.. THE TRUTH ALWAYS HURTS..

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Summary: Sloppy reasoning and faulty conclusions of an axe-grinder
Review: Hislop's work commits a fallacy which says that superficial similarities between two religions means that one borrowed from the other. His fanciful history is mostly from Hislop's own imagination and he often misquotes his sources. He says that candles in worship are used by a false Church which follows Bablon's mystery religion, but in scripture, both Old and New Testaments, we find the use of candles by God's people and in the heavenly worship. He objects to the tonsure of religious orders ignoring the fact that St. Paul in the book of Acts shaved his head as a sign of a vow he made to God. Space prevents me from listing all of the errors in his work. Interestingly, a popular updated work based on Hislop's book called "Babylon Mystery Religion" has been discontinued by its own author at a financial loss because its author was honest enough to admit that upon further research, he had to reject Hislop's contrived fantasies.