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Unless your mind is open to considering the truth about modern christianity, I would not recommend reading it. This book is an excellent source of all the similarities between the christian and pagan festivals, symbolisms and dogmas. If one has a hard time accepting the facts presented in this book, one merely needs to converse with someone who practices paganism to validate its premise and conclusion. I suggest talking to wiccans about the spring and fall festivals. Even a quick glance at an ecyclopedia will reveal how pagan All Saints and All Souls days are, not to mention Halloween. I find that this book does not delve too deeply into the reasons and hisory surrounding the embracemant of pagan theology by the christian church. For these studies, I reccomend reading Primitave Christianity by Rudolph Bultmann, the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire, or simply attending a college course on medieval european history or history of art. The most shocking thing I have found through my own investigation is that people who attend seminary or religious studies for the purpose of becoming a member of the clergy know all about these facts, but choose to ignore them and not teach then based on their blind faith. I have known such people who have left the clergy or gave up on the church because of what they learned in their studies. It is not difficult to confirm the premise and conclusion of this book with a little independent investigation.

All of these other reviews are for the wrong book. They are for "The Two Babylons". The Last Call is a powerful comic book presentation of Charles Finney's Revival Lectures. I've had this book for many years, and it always makes me hungry for revival. If you want to see revival in America, you'll love this book.

THIS A VERY INFORMATIVE BOOK ON THE ORIGIN OF THE MYSTERIOUS CULT OF BABYLON, AND THE EVOLUTION OF IT INTO THE PSUEDO-CHRISIAN WOMAN THAT WILL ULTIMATELY RIDE THE BEAST.A MUST READ FOR ANYONE SEKING TO UNDERSTAND THE HISTORY OF THE ORIGIN OF MANY OF TODAYS CHURCH TRADITIONS,ESPECIALLY THOSE OF ROMAN CATHOLIC ORIGIN. I BELIEVE THAT MR. HISLOP EXPOSES THE FRAUD OF CONSTANTINIAN CHRISTIANITY, BOTH PAST AND PRESENT.THE RESEARCH IN THIS TEXT IS EXTENSIVE AND IT IS ALSO A LITTLE WORDY FOR THOSE LESS TECHNICALLY INCLINED,BUT A GOOD READ NON THE LESS. I GIVE IT TWO THUMBS UP.

Majoring in the substance of the Puritan case against the papacy, this book is upsetting to Romanists, but remarkably enlightening to the serious church history scholar.

It is not particularly easy reading, but the content is solid and well documented.

This book relies on many historical fallacies which no historian or anthropologist worth his salt could accept, e.g. "similarity necessarily indicates common descent."Thankfully, some authors are taking responsibility and reversing the trend. I highly recommend Ralph Woodrow's _The Babylon Connection?_ and James McGoldrick's _Baptist Successionism: A Crucial Question in Baptist History_ as positive examples.

One author, Ralph Woodrow, who used Hislop's material actually had the sence to check it out for himself. To his astonishment, he found out it was full of errors - top to bottom. People who thrive after material like this would probably long for the writings of David Duke and Louis Farrakhahn as well. Time to grow up people!

The Two Babylons is written to shock. Both Protestants and Catholics are likely to be offended by this book. Protestants will learn that the Catholic Church is really built upon pagan traditions and that Satan uses the Catholic Church as a puppet of his will. Catholics will learn just how inaccurate one man can be. Quotes are taken out of context, beliefs are misrepresented,and facts are forged within this vicious attack.

Another round of mind-numbing clap trap. Using the author'shistorical method, one could fabricate a history that says just aboutanything about anyone.