March 2009
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Anti-Christian Bias in The World's New Seven... →
A German newspaper ran a story in 2006 about suspected anti-Christian bias in voting on a new set of world wonders in Lisbon.
The Vatican, though, also has its nose out of joint over the exclusion of Christian monuments like the Sistine Chapel and the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Archbishop Mauro Piacenza, head of the Vatican’s pontifical commission for culture and archaeology, told the...
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February 2009
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These and Seven →
Why these wonders? And why seven?
The list is an aggregate of guide books for Greek tourists from 280 BC to 146 AD. These travelers believed seven was a lucky number. The Ishtar Gate was considered part of this list, eventually replaced by the Lighthouse of Alexandria. I will cover both, and more, soon. With the gate off, only two of the works are non-Greek, making the list essentially a...
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“And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, The beauty of the Chaldeans’ pride,...”
– - Isaiah 13:19-22
The Christians simply can’t keep their hands off the ancient world. Ancient Babylon was destroyed and would never to be inhabited again, according to the Book of Isaiah. (Perhaps this is where zealousness for the Iraq War came from?)
The Bible makes mention of giving...
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Watch“THESE!” “prove” that Egyptians weren’t so special after, so Jesus is probably better. Thank God, these guys are pumping their unresearched, implausible and wholly biased facts, lest we believe those nut-job “SCIENTISTS”!!? [punctuation, quote and italics intentionally ironic] and start doubting our faith in His Noodly Appendage.
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Welcome
Quick: Name the Seven Wonders of the World.
“Leaning Tower, Colosseum, Great Wall, Taj Mahal …” Wrong. Wrong, wrong and … wrong.
This blog will display my finite quest to know about all of the so-called wonders of the world. You might be surprised to know how many there are, or at least how many people claim there to be.
Enjoy.