{"product_id":"the-babylon-connection","title":"The Babylon Connection?","description":"\u003cp\u003eShows that claims about Babylonian origins often lack connection  takes a closer look at the oftquoted The Two Babylons by Alexander Hislop providing some much needed clarification on the subject. EXCERPT: Suppose we could go back in timeback to the days of ancient Babylon. What kind of religion would we find being practiced there? According to Alexander Hislop we would find people attending a mass partaking of a little round wafer worshiping a cross going to confession being baptized with water for the remission of sins burning wax candles and bowing before a divine Mother and Child. We would notice that places of worship featured a tower. Priests wearing a circular tonsure dressed in black garments would give those who died the last rites. With monks and nuns in abundance the Babylonians would be practicing essentially all the rites known today in the Roman catholic Church! According to Alexander Hislop it all started with Nimrod and his wife Semiramis thus the subtitle of The Two Babylons: the Papal Worship Proved to Be the Worship of Nimrod and His Wife. But any information about Nimrod and Semiramis in history books is at best sketchy. In the Bible Nimrod the mighty hunter is only mentioned four timesand his wife is never mentioned! Nevertheless Hislop claims to know all kinds of detailed information about Nimrod and his wife....By now the reader may be asking the obvious question: Where does Hislop get all this information? The answer is clear. Based on mere similarities he merges a variety of mythological stories together so that the hero in each becomes Nimrod. The Bible says Nimrod was a mighty one; in mythology Hercules was a mighty one or giantso Hercules must have been Nimrod! Nimrod was known as a mighty hunter; in mythology Orion is called the Hunterso Orion must have been Nimrod! The building of the Tower of Babylon is commonly linked with Nimrod; in mythology Kronos\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brand: Ralph Woodrow","offers":[{"title":"Woodrow, Ralph \/ paperback","offer_id":47834877165813,"sku":"DADAX0916938174","price":11.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/ergodebooks.com\/products\/the-babylon-connection","provider":"Ergodebooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}