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Jason Sylvester
Приєднався 19 бер 2013
Author and history fan with a fascination for interesting connections. Secular humanist content creator of religious history highlights.
Influencers - Ancient Greece's BEST KEPT SECRET Hippo of Samos Revealed
In the 400s BCE, a Greek Philosopher did the unthinkable: he denied the existence of the gods. Was Hippo the first outspoken atheist in recorded history? Find out what he did that so incensed Aristotle.
My first book, Manifest Insanity, on the evolution of Judeo-Christianity, published under my previous pseudonym: amzn.to/42x5yWw
www.patreon.com/SylvesterReport
SylvesterReport
SylvesterReport
My first book, Manifest Insanity, on the evolution of Judeo-Christianity, published under my previous pseudonym: amzn.to/42x5yWw
www.patreon.com/SylvesterReport
SylvesterReport
SylvesterReport
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Papal Profiles - The POWERFUL Gregory VII Who Changed Papal History
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In 1075, Gregory VII would initiate the #GregorianReforms that would radically transform European Church & State history. Gregory declared that the pope was the universal supreme monarch to whom all other kings must submit, claimed he had the right to depose any king, and had the power to absolve citizens of their allegiance to a mere terrestrial sovereign. The changes that emerged from the ref...
Homosexuality in the Catholic Church with John Warrington
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Former Benedictine monk and clinical psychologist, John Warrington, joins me to discuss both the prevalence of homosexuality within the Church and also why it is so common historically and today. John brings a lifetime of experience as a former monk-priest and psychologist to examine the biopsychosocial origins of this situation. www.patreon.com/SylvesterReport SylvesterReport twit...
2 Kings 24 & 25 - Origins of Messianic Judaism
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Starting in the early 6th century, the Babylonians captured two kings of the House of David and exiled most of the population. When the Persians under Cyrus the Great defeated the Babylonians and allowed the Jews to return home and build a new temple it created a problem: the Bible states God made a covenant with David that his descendants would rule in perpetuity. Thus, the messianic ideology ...
Exposing the Truth About Jordan Peterson's Exodus Series
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As with his 2017 series on Genesis, once again, Jordan Peterson takes on Exodus. And, once again, he fails entirely to confer any legitimate or comprehensive analysis. Indicative of his intent to spoon-feed biblical rhetoric are his A) sponsors; B) panelists he includes; and C) the type of scholars he excludes. Let's also look at the ludicrous claims made by his panel and deconstruct their mist...
Influencers #17 - Anaxagoras on Trial for Impiety
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Around 434 BCE, the Greek philosopher Anaxagoras was tried for denying the gods of Athens, with a law created specifically because of his speculations on nature minus the gods. My first book, Manifest Insanity, on the evolution of Judeo-Christianity, published under my previous pseudonym: amzn.to/42x5yWw www.patreon.com/SylvesterReport SylvesterReport SylvesterReport
Papal Profiles - Sylvester II: The Philosopher-Pope Who Transformed European History
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At the turn of the first millennium, a philosopher-pope was appointed to head the Catholic Church. Accused by some Christians of making a pact with the devil, this brilliant scholar was a mathematical and scientific genius. Along with his imperial patron, the two intellectually gifted men, emperor and pope, had big plans to remake Europe into a bastion of tolerance and learning. Alas, fate inte...
2 Kings 22 & 23 - The Birth of Jewish Monotheism
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Around 622 BCE, a king in ancient Judah implemented a reform that would have long-lasting impacts on world history and influence two other later world faiths. There are multiple elements to the reform program, including the 'discovery' of a 'lost' book of Moses and the creation of a series of national epics that many believers consider to be history, but were in fact deliberately calculated soc...
Humour & Fiction in the Bible with Prof. John Collins
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Recently Prof. Collins appeared on @MythVisionPodcast discussing the obvious humour and fictional nature of the story of Jonah. He joins me to discuss both the funny & fictional elements, and offers his scholarly insights and recommendation for books covering the use of narrative in the Bible. He also chats about his experiences teaching Old Testament interpretation at Yale Divinity School and ...
Influencers #16 - Parmenides & His Impact on World History
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An early pre-Socratic Greek philosopher from Italy, Parmenides had a tremendous impact on world history through the people he influenced. His impact is subtle, but significant, particularly on the development of a key Christian tenet. My first book, Manifest Insanity, on the evolution of Judeo-Christianity, published under my previous pseudonym: amzn.to/42x5yWw www.patreon.com/SylvesterReport f...
2 Kings 15 - Assyrian Exile of the Israelites
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The Assyrian deportation of part of the population of the Kingdom of Israel is one of those rare and few examples of a real historical event contained in the Bible. However, a lot of biblical propaganda remains embedded in this tale, and fact needs to be separate from fiction. The deportation policy would also have a major impact on the relationship with the southern Judahite people to their no...
Vatican History with Prof. David Kertzer
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Brown University emeritus professor of history, anthropology, politics, and Italian studies, David Kertzer, joins me to discuss his experiences of meticulous research in the Vatican Archives, his books, and the Catholic reaction to his writings. www.davidkertzer.com/ www.patreon.com/SylvesterReport SylvesterReport SylvesterReport
Jordan Peterson Claims Jungian Literary Interpretations Necessary for Religious Texts
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In conversation with @CosmicSkeptic, Jordan Peterson claims that Richard Dawkins does not appear to know about Jungian literary interpretations, then claims this a flaw for understanding religious texts. However, in typical Peterson fashion, he neglects to tell Alex why Jungian literary analysis has fallen out of favor. To read Terence Dawson's full breakdown of Jung's literary criticism, you c...
Papal Profiles - A Game of Papal Musical Chairs
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Papal Profiles - A Game of Papal Musical Chairs
2 Samuel to 2 Kings 25 - David, Solomon & the Fictional United Monarchy
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2 Samuel to 2 Kings 25 - David, Solomon & the Fictional United Monarchy
Book of Joshua & The Conquest of Canaan
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Book of Joshua & The Conquest of Canaan
Is Science Western with Prof. Greg Dawes
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Is Science Western with Prof. Greg Dawes
Influencers #14 - Xenophanes of Colophon
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Influencers #14 - Xenophanes of Colophon
Fact vs Fiction: The Donation of Constantine
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Fact vs Fiction: The Donation of Constantine
Exodus 14 to 34 - Fleeing Egypt, Wandering in the Desert, 10 Commandments
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Exodus 14 to 34 - Fleeing Egypt, Wandering in the Desert, 10 Commandments
Papal Profiles - Gregory the Great Redefines Christian History
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Papal Profiles - Gregory the Great Redefines Christian History
Connections: Jacques Maritian - Repressed Homosexuality & The Vatican
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Connections: Jacques Maritian - Repressed Homosexuality & The Vatican
Papal Profiles - Pope Symmachus & A Series of Notorious Catholic Forgeries
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Papal Profiles - Pope Symmachus & A Series of Notorious Catholic Forgeries
Fact vs Fiction: Pseudo-Isidore False Decretals
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Fact vs Fiction: Pseudo-Isidore False Decretals
In the Pope's Against the Jews Kertzer hides an interview Leo XIII gave condemning anti-semetism in the endnotes, doesn't mention any of his encyclicals, and falsely claims the Jewish Deicide was a part of Catholic Doctrine up until Vatican II (this is contradicted The Teaching of Contempt by Jules Isaac who Kertzer cites and is easily accessible in the Catechism of the Council of Trent you can look up online). I probably would have brought some of this up if I had a chance to interview him.
Christian stupidity at its very finest! This teaching, this understanding, this Theology has no legitimacy - none of it is valid! Such complete and utter nonsense! Until the evils of Biblicism, Biblical Literalism, and Biblical Infallibility are laid bare to the world then majority Christendom will not improve! Quite why Christians are so bone headedly stupid Hashem alone knows. The bible quite simply is NOT the holy book that its promoters would have you believe! Idiots like this on YT together with their blind and bone headed groupies get all bent out of shape about something (homosexuality) that proceeded from the Divine and Divinity to condemn something created by the Divine. The problem lies with those who believe that the Bible is anything other than a book of stories - which it demonstrably is - to something it never was that being an infallible, inerrant guide to life! The latter is nothing more than a claim unbacked by any actual evidence! All the G-ds and G-desses are indeed great and Divinity comes in all shapes and sizes that ultra thick traditionalist and Fundamentalist Christians will never have the necessary two brain cells to rub together to quite fathom! Little wonder that Christendom is held in such low esteem by anyone with a 🧠 brain! Thing is Hashem is not the psychopathic moron they would have him, her, it (all pronouns accepted) be!
I really enjoyed watching this video. Very interesting conversation. Thank you
I am glad you found it informative, thank you.
dang skill issue
💥The Bible clearly teaches that the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom and knowledge (Proverbs1:7; Job28:28). JasonS. exudes the typical 'ABC Syndrome' of the average agnostic or atheist: Always angry, bitter and cynical. His "theology" (Jungian?) not recommended. Were the Biblical text really of such doubtful historicity as he surmises, why is it still the world's bestseller of all time? Jason, I share with you a great secret: The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom and knowledge! Get over it.
Oh, the Bible tells me what I'm supposed to think. Well, that settles it. Perhaps you might benefit from closing your Bible, read some other books and start thinking for yourself,
Protestant lies
Don't touch it with a barge pole, he isn't a theologian, he is a Jungian psychologist. Why would Christians want to be disciple-d by a non-Christian who has never given a definitive answer on [eg], ''is Christ the son of God'?'' 'Do you follow Christ's teachings?' ...'Is Scripture the infallible authority for guidance?''
IIRC, the "concept of zero" is not accurate either. Rather, concept of a _written_ zero, which was not done before in the Western world. You can see in structure of various languages numbering designations that there were other base systems in use. For example, French has clear influences from a base 20 system. EG, the for 80, the french say "quatre-vingt." Literally "four-twenty". I would venture that we, here, value "one dozen" because of influences of base 12 systems. Many alphabetic languages used the letters of their alphabet for representation of quantities, based on their position in that list.
What do you get when you combine a Christian-Judeo religion with the dogma of libertarianism?
the audio is balanced and clear, praise the lord.
When Jesus spoke about the Son of Man he was referring to himself (cf. Matthew 11:19).
Incorrect. He was most definitely not referring to himself, but to the archangel Michael mentioned in Daniel 12. Note also Mark 8:38, which is NOT a first-person reference: ‘Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of Man be ashamed, when HE cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.’
The entire bible is satire
Absolutely one of my favorite scholars. LOVE John Collins.
Mine too, glad you enjoyed it
This guy is arrogant and irritating
Wot?
Why? Because he's saying things you don't like. Bc he's deconstructing your precious book that you think is the infallible word of God? Aww you cannot handle the fact that the bible was written by men with their own agendas and for their own ends? 😂
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Thanks for the heads up.
ua-cam.com/video/4A_iBn3iYuI/v-deo.htmlsi=glIV0-i68MP1U5gr Man swallowed by whale? Who knows
😅 The story says that the guy was in their thirty seconds
Not three days
@@Grantman-wy6zl and did it really swallow him? I wasn't there. It's quite the claim!
Such ignorance and stupidity.
Thy are all greedy. No person should follow another person as a sheep. History ,the more you learn,the more my stomach turns!!!
Jesus gave Peter the keys of the kingdom and there is an unbroken line of succession…
I read the Mortara case and bought it several times as a gift. What a fantastic book! (And after finishing it, in an antique shop, I found an old postcard of the infamous Bologna church!)
Glad you enjoy his books and support his work.
Peterson has mastered monetised befuddlement.
How to categorise the great thinkers: 1. BC vs AD. Before Charles vs After Darwin 2. NER vs NEW. Not entirely right vs Not entirely wrong. Jung and Peterson are in the latter.
Did you know that, before he became Pope John Paul ll, he belonged to the nazi youth. He then grew up the become a salesman and biochemist for the I. G. Farben Chemical Company, where he invented zyclon-b and malathion? He then sold it to Hitler for extermination of the Jews.
The devil, introduced by Lurch
Hail Satan 🤘
The words "serpent" the "devil" and "Satan"....are all metaphors , they refer to the "carnal mind" of man . There is no "evil boogie man" out to get us......WE are our own worst "enemy" . The word "spirit" in scripture means the "consciousness" or "mind". "God is Spirit" ( John 4:24 ) "God" is the Mind and Consciousness in ALL human beings and in ALL things created ...... not some old man up in the sky somewhere .
The deviL Lived .But eviL is Live. And Love is to
So start a conversation from disbelief about belief carried out between two disbelievers.
@9:06 McKenna says the Bible doesn't have the Devil, I beg to differ! Rev 12:9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. Some how watching more of this video seems like a waste of time! Satan, Devil, Dragon, and Serpent are the same!
I couldn’t hear Joe McKenna.
The sound quality is a metaphor for his thoughts
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Sorry but I Couldn’t hear anything from Joe McKenna. The sound quality is awful haha. Please re upload with better sound 👍
Excellent & super interesting - I learned new stuff too!!!❤
Very interesting topic which I would have loved to stay with but the sound quality and the hearing of a 70yr old stopped me after five minutes. Maybe you could revisit this again ?
Sorry about that, I cleaned up the sound quality with the software options as best I could. It's a topic I'd definitely come back to.
Papacy is Biblical
Burning people at the stake, atrocious as it is, at least makes sense as a method of eliminating those who threaten your power. Imagine the lunacy of exhuming someone to burn their bones, out of spite, over 4 decades after their death. If the actual history of the Catholic Church was taught in Catholic schools, there wouldn't be Catholic schools. Thank you for another great video.
In beste goode humour! - my only cavil (is trivial) not 'Why-cliff' but Whi(p)-cliff.... an aspirant wh-ah... to the 'i' of 'in' not the 'i' of 'nine' Whi-cliffe - Ye olde Englishe is moghty treacherous! Great post, as always - calm, accurate, and informative.
Which set will the misguided republicans inflict on the children?
I read about this in Nicholas De Vere's 'The Dragon Legacy' he claims the Church stole the right of Kings and used it to crown Farmer and Merchant classes, while ousting true Royal bloodlines descended from the Scythian Kings...
Great work, as usual! Thx
People don't realize how ridiculous the 40 years are. So, let's do a simple calculation: 40 years is 40*365*24 hours, that is 350,400 hours. According to the internet, the garden snail's can reach a speed of 0.048 km/hour, so in that amount of time a snail would have crawled 16819.2 km. Divide this distance by 752km (according to your video @1m50sec) and you get 22.36, which is how many times a snail would have done this trip in 40 years. Here's an other way to view this: About 600,000 Israelites wake up every day, they put a garden snail on the ground, they all get behind it and start following it. After just over one hour (64.38 minutes to be exact) they stop, pick up the snail and set camp for the day. They do the same thing the next day, and every day for 40 years until they reach the promised land. Meanwhile, the Pharaoh's army is chasing them. Thank you for the video.
I remember learning about the forged primacy in school in Greece, many decades ago. A few years later, in my late adolescence/early adulthood I became an atheist, and back then I used to think that most of it was bitterness about losing power to the Vatican (school books in Greece are, of course, heavily biased towards anything Byzantium related). This channel (which, I will say again, is shamefully undersubscribed) helped me see that, at least on this subject, my school books were basically accurate. Thank you, kind sir, for yet another very interesting video. Looking forward to your book.
Thank you for your kind words. There is certainly tension between the Latin and Greek Churches, with tons of rhetoric and little or no basis in reality. In Vatican Lies 3, I have the excerpt of the CNN documentary in which the seemingly Latin-inspired producers made the most blatant statements of papal imaginings.
Thank you for this video. There's a famous debate on YT on whether the Catholic Church is a force for good in the world. Against the proposition were Christopher Hitchens and Stephen Fry. They did a great job in my opinion. However, this channel shows that they didn't even scratch the surface. Once again I have to quote one of my favorite passages from one of my favorite books: “Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and uplift, competing as they do in a marketplace. But we have a right to remember how barbarically they behaved when they were strong and were making an offer that people could not refuse.” ― Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
Thanks. I have seen the IQ2 debate many times and never tire of watching it, especially Fry's opening speech.
JP is nothing apart from a vile nihilist which is revealed by his own statements along with his philosophical influences, much of what he says is filled to the brim with rhetoric/sophistry!!! He's an authoritarian of the worst kind through & through who worships at the altar of scientism/statism with some judeo-christianity sprinkled on top!!!
“Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and uplift, competing as they do in a marketplace. But we have a right to remember how barbarically they behaved when they were strong and were making an offer that people could not refuse.” ― Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
Wikipedia is poor..not accurate
I have not watched this video. Your immature replies tell me that I do not want to waste my time with you, regardless of if the content is true or not. I'm sure I can find another source.
Good luck.
Basically the Hebrew prophet Daniel being such a stud that all relegions can trace back to his faithfullness. Too bad Haman murked him.
what's the source of the first picture?
David Kertzer's book, The Pope & Mussolini, p 269: Mussolini dedicates the new town of Guidonia, as the local bishop joins in the Fascist salute, November 1937, L’Illustrazione Italiana.
@@SylvesterReport thank you
'Pius [XII] may well have been concerned about the nature of the early chapters of Genesis, and how the discoveries of such works as the epic of Gilgamesh shed light on how Genesis might be interpreted.' europe-southwest.c-b-f.org/2018/10/11/light-in-our-darkness-celebrating-divino-afflante-spiritu/
Pius XII 'conceding' that OT writers borrowed... 'If, however, the ancient sacred writers have taken anything from popular narrations (and this may be conceded), it must never be forgotten that they did so with the help of divine inspiration, through which they were rendered immune from any error in selecting and evaluating those documents.' www.vatican.va/content/pius-xii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xii_enc_12081950_humani-generis.html
It is unbelievable that the internal law of the Catholic Church still doesn't have an explicit requirement to report the sexual abuse of children to civil authorities. Unbelievable, and infuriating. Any Catholic with a shred of dignity should acknlowdedge this, push for it to change, and demand that anyone covering for such crimes, up to and including the Pope, should be sent to prison. I wonder which other religious institutions have internal laws that allow for such behaviors by their clergy. I do know that the Mormon church has covered or tried to cover its clergy on numerous occasions. I wonder which other religious institutions (like the Orthodox Churches, the various Protestant Churches in the US and elsewhere, the Jehova's Witnesses, Scientology etc) have similar provisions to cover the abuse or lack the explicit provisions that require reporting. Thank you for shedding a light on the history behind this horrible situation.
What you miss is that JP is offering an esoteric gnostic interpretation of Genesis. Because JP is an esoteric Hitelerist and neo-gnostic Satanist, after the pattern of Miguel Serrano and Aleister Crowley. JP is not an exegete, but a cryptofascist and esoteric eisegete.
I discuss the Gnosticism, and his strategic omission of not telling his audience, in JP3
@@SylvesterReport Yeah, but I think you don't capture the full connection of his various bullshit. Check out the work of Troy Parfitt and Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke. The thread connecting all of JP's insane nonsense is esoteric hitlerism. A quote from JP: "You have to admire Hitler, that's the thing: because he was an organizational genius!"
@@SylvesterReport I give you credit for picking up many of the threads, but you miss out on the overall connecting theme. Everything JP says is pointed in one direction, namely esoteric Hitlerism a la Miguel Serrano, alloyed with a sort of satanism most similar to Aleister Crowley's. This is most apparent in his earliest lectures and Maps of Meaning. Since he got mega famous, he's toned it down and now is a pretty standard conservative traditionalist, but peppered with esoteric and fascist points.