Palmyra, the delirium
I’d have far less to write about — and we’d all live in a safer world — if we recognized that the outrageous varieties of apocalyptic expectation just might be the multi-headed beast St John of Patmos was talking about in Revelation, ahem.
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Scott:
March 31st, 2016 at 2:31 pm
That gate in Times Square? Clearly, we need the gatekeeper and the keymaster…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSp5QwKRwqM
Grurray:
March 31st, 2016 at 7:31 pm
That bottom image is actually the New York-New York casino in Vegas, which, come to think of it, would probably be a much better location anyway.
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The stories of ancient child sacrifice by Canaanites are similar to the ones the Romans told about Carthage – propaganda. The burning of children was probably casting aspersions on the ritualistic cleansing with incense. Recall the frankincense at the nativity.
The stories of sacred prostitution were clever defaming of the roles of priestesses and fertility rituals.
Just as the case of the infants dashed against the rocks in Psalm 137, it’s all not to be taken literally.