The Two Babylons: Or, the Papal Worship Proved to Be the Worship of Nimrod

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Summary: TOTALLY AWESOME WORK
Review: I read this book a long time ago. It is packed with incredible details outlining the origins of paganism, myths, legends, and their influence on religions of today. For anyone who is not afraid of FACTS AND TRUTH. Not for those who want to hang on to their religious traditions, and the doctrines and commandments of men. For example: how did we get Christmas on December 25, Easter with bunnies and eggs; Greek, Roman, and many other countries' legends and myths? It's all here, and much much more, documented with unbelievable detail and scholarship.

Rating:
Summary: TOTALLY AWESOME WORK
Review: I read this book a long time ago. It is packed with incredible details outlining the origins of paganism, myths, legends, and their influence on religions of today. For anyone who is not afraid of FACTS AND TRUTH. Not for those who want to hang on to their religious traditions, and the doctrines and commandments of men. For example: how did we get Christmas on December 25, Easter with bunnies and eggs; Greek, Roman, and many other countries' legends and myths? It's all here, and much much more, documented with unbelievable detail and scholarship.

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Summary: Dont believe the author check it out
Review: This was one of the first books that I read related to African Origins of science and civilization. The work speaks for itself. For any skeptics, please take the time to research the facts stated in this book. If anyone has a hard time believing anything that is written in this book, please research (You can even use yahoo.com as a search tool) "Mitochondrial Eve" and open the door to the past.

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Summary: Virulent Antipapist Propaganda by a Protestant Know Nothing.
Review: _The Two Babylons_ by Protestant Rev. Alexander Hislop is a book which attempts to prove that the worship of the Roman Church is that of ancient Babylon and that paganism was later added into original Christianity by Roman Catholicism. The book looks at the Roman Catholic calendar, the holidays, the sacaments, priestly orders, the papacy, and all the rest of Catholic tradition and argues that these elements are in fact pagan in source, claiming that the Bible alone is to be the sole source of authority for the practicing Christian (relying of course on private interpretation, problematic in itself). Of course, original Christianity did not even have the Bible in its canonical form (however, they did have the mass, performed in memory of Christ Jesus); nevertheless, Hislop argues that the Bible is to be the sole source of authority. Of course, tradition itself allows one to assert the authority of the Holy Bible as Word of God, but Hislop will nonetheless claim that tradition is "pagan" in origin. Basically this book is a work of hatred, which relies on the common fallacy that because two religious practices are similar (in outward appearance) they must share the same origin. In fact, the religious beliefs of the early Aryan European pagans may have been an important foreshadowing of the later Christian religion that overtook them. The Protestantism advocated by Hislop is bitterly iconoclastic (no doubt smashing artworks, quite literally) and puritanical as well as nationalistic. For example, Hislop is opposed to such common practices as the celebration of Christmas and the use of colored eggs at Easter. Such hardheaded know nothingness is certainly responsible for the rise of modern day nihilism and the secular state. The Roman Church claims apostolic lineage from Christ himself through Saint Peter, the first pope. Hislop merely takes this great religion, extracts its holy book and proclaims that that book is the religion itself. Of course, the battle has waged on since the Reformation, but Hislop represents some of the most extreme forces of opposition to the papacy within Protestantism.