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Unmasking the God of Israel: The Devil’s Trick, part 2
Yahweh was, according to many scholars, the tribal “volcano god” of the ancient Jews. by Laurent Guyénot
The belief in a cruel god makes a cruel man. (Thomas Paine. The Age of Reason, 1794).
COUNTLESS BIBLICAL STORIES demonstrate that Yahweh is the spirit of murder and theft. We read in…

Unmasking the God of Israel: The Devil’s Trick, part 1
by Laurent Guyénot “THE FINEST trick of the devil is to persuade you that he does not exist,” wrote Charles Baudelaire (Paris Spleen). He was wrong: The devil’s finest trick is to persuade you that he is God. Do I believe in the existence of the devil? It depends on the definition. I believe that humans are…

The Jewish Blood-Obsession
by Thomas Dalton, Ph.D.
Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand?
—Shakespeare, Macbeth (Act II, sc. 2) BLOOD IS SUCH A strange substance in human experience. We all have blood, of course, but it is hidden away, as it were, out of sight and out of mind. On the one hand, it is the very…
Clean from my hand?
—Shakespeare, Macbeth (Act II, sc. 2) BLOOD IS SUCH A strange substance in human experience. We all have blood, of course, but it is hidden away, as it were, out of sight and out of mind. On the one hand, it is the very…

A Surfeit of Jesuses
Do you really think it all began with a sanctimonious Jewish wonder-worker, strolling about 1st century Palestine? Prepare to be enlightened. There were many Jesuses but the fable was a cultural construct (and, by the way, following a star would lead you in circles). WAS THERE A Jesus? Of course there…

Moonshining
by Revilo P. Oliver AMONG THE innumerable rackets and swindles that flourish in the rotting country that once was ours, one, of which I have just heard, invites comment. As described to me, it appears in a specialized business, but the same technique is doubtless used in many others. Some local member…

Magic Numbers
by Revilo P. Oliver ONE OF OUR lesser gospel-gabblers is excited by a sensational discovery he has just made. Who is now the titular President of the United States? Give his full name. Ronald Wilson Reagan. Now don’t you see it? Look again. How many letters in each name? Now you have it! So it’s…

God’s Will; Brothers Under the Skin
GOD’S WILL by Revilo P. Oliver I LEARN from the Christian News that more than six hundred pious Christians, of the varieties that a friend of mine likes to call “funny-mentalists,” met in Basel in the hall that was made sacred when the first publicly announced Zionist Congress met…

Evangel for Bibliophiles; Ten Percent Nordic
by Revilo P. Oliver IF YOU like to collect odd books, you may look forward to acquiring a real curio, a polychrome “New Testament.” According to Christian News, a consortium of “Bible scholars” is now going through the five hundred or so statements attributed to Jesus ben…

Bible Myths from Arabia Felix
by Revilo P. Oliver AS I WRITE, a new book by Dr. Kamal Salibi of the American University in Beirut has not yet been published in this country, and I owe notice of it to Der Spiegel, which will publish portions of it in German translation, and to an article by Jim Muir of the Sunday Times, an English newspaper…

Moving Jesus
by Revilo P. Oliver I LEARN FROM the Wall Street Journal, 2 March 1992, that the American Bible Society, one of the foremost publishers of the world’s most widely distributed work of fiction, are coping with a falling market. Bibles are still printed and sold in large numbers, but, as several dervishes…