1. The Garden of Eden was in Iraq.
Comment: Actually, probably Kashmir but few would sign on to that, so that, so far as genuine (as opposed to tendentious) opinion is concerned, the location is unknown or at least uncertain. However, the main point about the Garden and its story is its symbolic import, specifically its vivid, accurate description of the condition of man when first in unity with and then in estrangement from his essential nature, which is, as the story indicates, a dreamy state of intense beauty and peace in the dominion of God, meaning, in unity with the Divine Presence.
2. Mesopotamia, which is now in Iraq, was the cradle of civilization.
Comment: This is the deconstructionist/revisionist/secular-in-the-sense of profane (= willfully resisting the holy, the great and the dignified) view and it is absurd. Comes from the Fabian Communists at Harvard during the years of Eliot and Conant, mainly Eliot – 1869-1953. The cradle of civilization is the Indus, not the Tigris/Euphrates. The spiritual center of the planet is India, then, now and always. Galbraith during Kennedy carried on Harvard’s racism regarding India, which, in fact, scared them because they felt they couldn’t reduce it to positivism (Fabian Communism) – later termed deconstructionism by a Jewish French Algerian -- as they felt they could Christianity, although they didn’t do that either! Fabian Communists in England, their source, were Shaw and Russell. Almost all were homosexuals. Roosevelt’s New Dealers were mostly Harvard Fabians. He personally, although a Harvard man, was not a Fabian. Roosevelt, Churchill and MacArthur were cousins through Colonial intermarriage. They knew that they were.
3. Noah built the Ark in Iraq.
Comment: Possibly, but more likely Armenia.
4. The Tower of Babel was in Iraq.
5. Abraham was from Ur, which is in Southern Iraq.
Comment: Actually, southwestern Persia. Persians are Indo-Europeans, not Semites (Arabs and Jews, the latter “sort of”). Farsi/Persian is one of the many languages, including most European languages, to include English, which derive from Sanskrit. The trouble Abraham and his successors had in Palestine resulted from their being non-Semites and claiming the territory (sound familiar?). Hebrews became Semites through intermarriage – against which Prophets inveighed – in later generations. After the Hellenistic period, they became “Jews” and after Christ they became a congeries of families and tribes devoted, for no good reason, to rabbinic pronouncements. My personal opinion is that Judaism is, at most, one of the several unitarian Christian denominations, that is, more or less heretical, depending on how hard they want to push their “legitimacy” as an independent religion, which legitimacy does not exist. On its own, Judaism is an array of attitudes, catastrophic ones, not a religion nor a faith nor a legal system nor an ethnicity.
6. Isaac’s wife Rebekah is from Nahor, which is in Iraq.
7. Jacob met Rachel in Iraq.
8. Jonah preached in Nineveh…, which is in Iraq.
Comment: Near Mosul.
9. Assyria, which is in Iraq, conquered the ten tribes of Israel.
Comment: Well, not quite. Assyria was an empire based on tribes northerly in what is now Iraq, to include what are now called Kurdish. The Kurdish, it is important to understand, are, like the Persians, Indo-Europeans, not Semites. The Turks also, mostly are Indo-European, specifically Celtic. Ankara is an ancient Celtic capital. The Afghans, also, are Indo-European. It is consistent with their ethnicity and their history, despite their religion, that Turks, Kurds and Afghans are aligned with Europe, NATO and the Americas rather than with Semitic extremists, either Arab or Jewish. None of them is Semitic (Arab and Jew, the latter “sort of”).
10. Amos cried out in Iraq.
Comment: My memory is dim on this. I think it was Moab/Trans-Jordan. But I’m not sure. It may have been Iraq area also.
11. Babylon, which is in Iraq, destroyed Jerusalem.
Comment: I have seen splendid picture of Babylon as Saddam rebuilt it – with himself as the modern Nebuchadnezzar.
12. Daniel was in the lion’s den in Iraq.
13. The three Hebrew children were in the fire in Iraq (Jesus had been in Iraq also as the fourth person in the fiery furnace!).
14. Belshazzar, the King of Babylon saw the “writing on the wall” in Iraq.
15. Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, carried the Jews captive into Iraq.
16. Ezekiel preached in Iraq.
17. The wise men were from Iraq.
Comment: They were from Tibet – “east” not north. Jesus spent most of his brief life in Kashmir Tibet and India – the 18 years that are not mentioned in the NT. “Heaven” in the OT refers usually to Kashmir, from which the Hebrews came. They were not originally Semites, which explains their “wandering” and “stranger” status in Palestine and the Middle East. I won’t go into details but the spiritual impetus for Christianity, that is, its Divine Charter in Jesus as the Christ, are the Seers of Buddhism, not the rabbis of Judaism. This is why He battles the rabbis and their followers. They were, as we know, whitewashed tombs (= First Century Hellenistic euphemism for homosexuals, and still, in my opinion, an accurate and therefore useful description). Jesus as the Christ came to reestablish the universality of Truth and the Presence of God in the Mediterranean world – that is what the Christ was expected, rightly, to do. He did that. But the efficient cause of his inspiration and mission were the Seers of Buddhism, specifically in Tibet. The great Christian theological edifice which built the Church was constructed by Paul and later Jerome and Augustine and others whom the Church calls Doctors (Four Great and a few others in both East and West) and Fathers and later by a series of God-sent Saints and Sages, many of whose names we will never know, especially of the Sages, since they perforce operate under the radar of their contemporaries as well as of historians.
18. Peter preached in Iraq.
Comment: Iraq is still a major Christian center, especially among Kurds.
Refuting an urban legend:
The Urban Legend:
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This is something to think about! Since an Eagle typically represents America, Saddam should have read up on his Muslim passages in the Koran.
The following verse is from the Koran:
Koran (9:11) – For it is written that a son of Arabia would awaken a fearsome Eagle. The wrath of the Eagle would be felt throughout the lands of Allah and lo, while some of the people trembled in despair still more rejoiced; for the wrath of the Eagle cleansed the lands of Allah; and there was peace.
Also, note the verse number in the Koran…9:11.
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The Refutation:
Posted by David Graham at November 6, 2004 09:15 AM | TrackBack