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Joan Oates

Posted by Farid (Moderator) - Friday, November 14 2003, 15:54:57 (EST)
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Towards the end of her book she discusses the legacy of Babylonia and damned if it doesn't make it seem like left handed insults. I'm not about to say there's a deliberate conspiracy by Jews and Christianized Jews to keep this slander of Mesopotamians going...but really, as you get the muck they put in your head all those years out, there seems to be no other way to understand it...unless it's kind of an unspoken and even unfelt desire to keep them Hebrews out front cause they gave us Christ Inc....whereas the Mesopotamians were far too sensible and refined to fall for that Messiah crap.

It's like an archaeologist uncovering a fabulously worked piece of elaborate gold jewelry with cut stones and soldered gold beads and an ingenious clasp that sets you to wondering how the people who made this piece could have developed the technology, never mind the exquisite sense of design and overall aesthetic sensibility...and then the same guy digs up a shard with a verse from Revelations or some such nonsense with a sentence ot two about which way to run the knife over the pigs throat to make sure the sacrifice is pleasing to Yahwe...and the shard gets held up for all to see as evidence of the superior people who gave us civilization while the gold jewelry was more than likely stolen from anyone else...indicates the people who made it were materialistic...also brutal because they must have killed someone to get the gold...and enslaved several populations to get the stones cut and overall were just a bunch of vicious and cruel people who had nothing better to do than dress up and party.

And guess who's first in line to buy that argument...

Even after she admits the Babylonians, building on what the rest of us gave them, used math others took the credit for much later...and enumerates all the other achievements almost as if tossing them off...she still has to point out where they "failed" to go this step farther, or put this together. I mean come ON!. Give our people a break. Were we supposed to do ALL the work for the rest of you?

She even refers to the "primitive" devices for making calculations they used. Excuse me? How were they primitive? Try building a box today without using that "primitive tool" known as a hammer.

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