I’ll start, so as a teen I stumbled across a book called," Someone comes to town, someone leaves town." The synopsis caught me as it’s about a man with a mountain as a fathera washing machine as a mother and one brother that is dead and trying to harm him. I’ll admit some of the technical terms were too much for my developing mind but it has stuck with me all these years.
What is the wackiest / craziest book you’ve read and did you enjoy the ride?
If you liked that you will probably enjoy the “War God” trilogy by Graham Hancock
greatly appreciated that you would take the time to read my post and then offer me a related book suggestion. I will look into it and readily admit that theological subjects have become my favorite genre. But the knowledge that most if not all the Pantheons are real, and all human history starts by saying the Gods taught us how to write, build cities, farm, 0000000make laws, work metals, have kings(sired by the Gods), basically all aspects of civilization are instructions from our Gods. For Yahweh separated the peoples by language, territory boundaries, clans, and according to the number of the sons of the Gods. And then Yahweh picks one man Abraham, sends his descendents into slavery into Egypt the strongest House at the time, trounces them by the hand of an elderly man with a wooden staff whose miracles are so powerful even the Egyptian Priests are only able to reproduce the first couplr of of them. The final plague being the death of the firstborns. This is because the human sacrifice of one’s child especially firstborn male is near universal in theology. Then the freed Slaves are led to the promised land, Cannan. Actually 7 separate pantheons occupy the land. They are commanded to kill every man, woman, child, and animal in a holy war that makes Muslim Jihad look cute. After violating the terms of the covenant}multiple times the Angel of Yahweh tells them he won’t march against their enemies anymore and the remaining people will serve the purpose of testing the Jews to see if they will follow Yahweh or the Gods of the original inhabitants. In the beginning of Judges it says that Yahweh left these Natives behind to teach the future generations of Israeliets war because they didn’t know the war of conquest to invade and steal the land. The Jews never follow Yahweh but follow the other Gods instead and thus they are taken as captives and made the slaves and colonies of their neighbors. Then when Rome is ruling them their Messiah comes and they demand his execution and reject his radical anti establishment teachings. But like Obi wan kenoby in A New Hope says “Go ahead and strike me down Vader and I shall become more powerful than you could possibly imagine!” By submitting and becoming a sacrifice to save all humans from the curse of having to offer their children as sacrifices to the Gods he conquers the entire Roman Empire, then all of Europe, then the entire Western Hemisphere. Cortez conquered the Aztec Empire with its hundreds of millions of people with 500 men , 150 of which were monks. Modern estimates are a minimum of 250,000 people were being sacrificed to their Gods every year!