http://www.antichristian-phenomenon.com/waldheri/construction-of-a-religion Behold, Bastard son! We are the evil ones. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:51:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.antichristian-phenomenon.com/waldheri/construction-of-a-religion/comment-page-1#comment-37 mirror Sun, 08 Jul 2007 19:12:42 +0000 http://www.antichristian-phenomenon.com/waldheri/construction-of-a-religion/#comment-37 If you really want to make Abrahamic heads spin, try pointing out that for a long period (during which the book of Jeremiah and other books of the OT were composed) the archaeological evidence supports the idea that the Hebrew people believed in a mother-goddess Asherah who was their god's wife. A goddess who - if she wasn't always a goddess they recognized - was likely borrowed from the people living in Israel before them. Which is only fair, considering she was the wife of the local god whose name was a linguistic cognate for one of the names for the Hebrew god. If you really want to make Abrahamic heads spin, try pointing out that for a long period (during which the book of Jeremiah and other books of the OT were composed) the archaeological evidence supports the idea that the Hebrew people believed in a mother-goddess Asherah who was their god’s wife. A goddess who – if she wasn’t always a goddess they recognized – was likely borrowed from the people living in Israel before them. Which is only fair, considering she was the wife of the local god whose name was a linguistic cognate for one of the names for the Hebrew god.

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