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What religious belief should wikipedia have?While investigating this topic I went to our favorite site, wikipedia. In full disclosure, I've not only contributed to the site, but have had some communication with same while I was involved in a political campaign.
I have found that our pal wikipedia leans Left, and regularly veers away from a traditional and/or religious view.
Case in point....take a look at their poke at the Abrahamic story.....and then at several other sources including the encyclopedia britancia...
OK...here's wikipedia:
5. " In the Hebrew Bible, the prophet Abraham is stated to have originally been from "Ur of the Chaldees" (Ur Kaśdim); if this city is to be identified with the ancient Sumerian city state of Ur, it would be within what would many centuries later become the Chaldean homeland south of the Euphrates, although it must be pointed out that the Chaldeans certainly did not exist in Mesopotamia (or anywhere else in historical record) at the time that Abraham is believed to have existed (circa 1800-1700 BC), arriving some eight or nine hundred years later.[9]This fact casts serious doubt on the chronological accuracy andhistoricityof the Abrahamic story."
Chaldea - Wikipedia the free encyclopedia
So....should we throw out the traditional 'Abrahamic story'?
wikipedia takes the secular view of all things at all times, similar to the teaching in most schools and universities.....which might explain the sneering tone that several in this very thread have taken.
What if I can provide a very different view....based on scholarship?
Who said anything about a religious belief?
A very different view from that of wikipedia.
6. "There is a large body of religious literature besides the Book of Genesis which deals with the periodbefore the Deluge. Sources such as thethree books of Enoch, the Book of Jubilees, the Gnostic teachings,the Dead Sea scrolls, the Haggadah or the oral tradition of the Jews, the Rabbinical writings, the works ofJosephus, and many works of the Pseudepigrapha.
Much of what is not intelligible in these ancient religious writings is explained in part in the large library of available Sumerian, Babylonian and other cuneiform inscriptions. It will be demonstrated that the Scriptures and Sumerian literature, regarded in a historical context, andstripped of their spiritual and mythological verbiage, support and augment each other remarkably. For it is clear thatSumerwas the fountainhead for the events and stories of the Old Testament and other Western religious writings.
Much as Biblical apologists have tried to avoid or cloud the issue of the origin of the Old Testament, the historical facts clearly show that its antecedents are in the valley of Mesopotamia.
The Sumerian culture, which can be traced as far back as the beginning of the Fourth Millennium BC, was the source of all the myths of Middle Eastern civilizations that followed, such as the Akkadian, Babylonian, and Assyrian people who inherited much of the Sumerian culture. This culture was subsequently transferred to the west to the lands of Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, and Anatolia." Boulay Chapter 4
Well....there is some validation there......
More coming.