Could these so-called messengers of God have served another function – one not so benevolent or benign? Ancient Aliens: Angels and Aliens s2e13
Both in the Book of Enoch and in the Hebrew Bible the fallen angels acted in direct opposition to God’s will by interbreeding with Humans. ibid.
According to ancient texts the fallen angels not only had physical relationships with the women of Earth, they produced offspring, the Nephilim, a race of giants. ibid.
Researchers point to thousands of carvings and other depictions of strange winged creatures and other semi-human beasts that commonly appear on ancient walls and artefacts. ibid.
If angels were visitors from other worlds, what was their purpose? ibid.
Could so-called fallen angels, jinns and other mysterious ultra-terrestrial creatures, really help to explain more recent stories? ibid.
Angels and demons. Good versus Evil. But if as many Ancient Astronaut proponents maintain extraterrestrials have been masquerading as angels, jinn and other unworldly creatures, for thousands of years, where did they come from? Why are they here? And could they still be around us in plain sight? ibid.
Mount Hermon is also the site where the two hundred fallen angels descended to Earth according to the Book of Enoch. But why Mount Hermon? ibid.
In the occult science of numerology the number thirty-three represents the ultimate attainment of consciousness. Mount Hermon is located at the latitude of 33 degrees north. Tracing the 33rd degree parallel to the exact opposite side of the globe takes you to the site of the most famous UFO encounter in modern history: Roswell New Mexico USA. ibid.
I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me – they’re cramming for their final exam. George Carlin
Swearing on the Bible. You understand that shit? They tell you to raise you right hand, place your left hand on the bible. Does this stuff really matter which hand? Does God really give a fuck about details like this? ... If they said to me, Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help me God, I’d say, Yeah! I’ll tell you as much truth as the people that wrote that fucking Bible. How do like that, huh? … It’s kid’s stuff. George Carlin
They believe the Bible is the exact word of God, then they change the Bible. Pretty presumptuous, huh. Bill Hicks, Revelations, Dominion Theatre London
I’ve been in the Bible every day since I’ve been the president. George W Bush, 12 November 2008
The Bible is probably the most genocidal book in our canon. Professor Noam Chomsky
Would you consider running your business according to an instruction manual written some three to four thousand years ago and then translated twenty or more times before you read it? Derek Partridge, The Naked Truth
Inspired? The Bible is not even intelligent. It is not even good craftsmanship, but is full of absurdities and contradictions. E Haldeman-Julius, The Meaning of Atheism
The Bible and the Bible only is the religion of Protestants. William Chillingworth, 1602-44, The Religion of Protestants, 1637
Both read the Bible day and night,
But thou read’st black where I read white. William Blake, The Everlasting Gospel
There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that; when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. Genesis 6:4
The Bible has become the most blood-stained book in all of history. A Lamp in the Dark – The Untold History of the Bible
The Bible, a book that glorifies behaviour you abhor. Emmet F Fields
The Bible is a blueprint of in-group morality, complete with instructions for genocide, enslavement of other groups, and world domination. John Hartung, Love thy Neighbour
Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism for atheism ever conceived. Isaac Asimov
More fiction than fact: and that ain’t bullshit ... If you want history or fact in your Bible, you’re so screwed. Penn & Teller, Bullshit s2e6: The Bible: Fact or Fiction? Showtime 2004
What kind of God does that – kills innocent children. ibid.
It’s mythic storytelling, nothing more. Michael Shermer, Skeptics Magazine
If ‘survival of the fittest’ has any validity as a slogan, then the Bible seems a fair candidate for the accolade as the fittest of texts. Hugh Pyper, 1998
If he’d [Martin Luther King] really be invoking the lessons of Genesis and Exodus he would have been saying that his people have the right to kill anyone who stood in their way, to exterminate all other tribes, to mutilate their children’s genitalia, to make slaves of those they captured, to take the land and property of others, to engage in rather long and hideous and elaborate arguments about ox-goring. Christopher Hitchens v Reverend Al Sharpton
If I was told to sacrifice them to prove my devotion to God, if I was told to do what all monotheists are told to do and admire the man who said, Yes I’ll gun my kid to show my love of God, I’d say, No – fuck you. Christopher Hitchens
No, if we had believed that perjury, murder and theft were all right we would never have got to the feet of Mount Sinai. Christopher Hitchens v Alister McGrath, Georgetown University Washington, 2007
The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and for indiscriminate massacre, but we are not bound by any of it because it was put together by crude, uncultured human mammals. Christopher Hitchens, God is Not Great p102
There was no flight from Egypt, no wandering in the desert ... and no dramatic conquest of the Promised Land. It was all, quite simply and very ineptly, made up at a much later date. ibid. p102
I personally think maybe intervention into our evolution ... The jump in evolution, or the jump in the creation, just cries out that someone intervened in our evolution ... When you read the Old Testament that God said, Let us make man in our image. Immediately you have a problem as most Bible students know with who is us and our? Later on it says that Man has become as one of us. Talking with a Rabbi many years ago, he made the point that ... it was not saying that God was creating Man at that point, it was actually saying, Come, let us make Man in our image, according to our likeness, implying that Man was already here. Jordan Maxwell, recorded interview
The whole concept of the Old Testament was developed right around the 9th 10th and 11th to 12th century A.D. So that the Old Testament was not an ancient record of an ancient people – there was no ancient Israel. Jordan Maxwell, Project Camelot Conference September 2009