IT SOUNDS bizarre, but you can draw a line connecting the fertility cult of Baal in the ancient Near East to the modern green movement. The midpoint of that line is, oddly, Nazi Germany.
Mark Musser, author of the book Nazi Oaks: The Green Sacrifice of the Judeo-Christian Worldview in the Holocaust, explains how the Holocaust was carried out under a green cover: Nazi racism was rooted in the Social Darwinism of German Romanticism that laid the ecological foundations for what today is otherwise known as environmentalism.
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A LINE can be drawn connecting the fertility cult of Baal in the ancient Near East to the modern radical green movement. The midpoint of that line is Nazi Germany. Mark Musser joins us to discuss his book Nazi Oaks: The Green Sacrifice of the Judeo-Christian Worldview in the Holocaust.Continue Reading
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2015 COULD be the year we learn that we’re not alone in the universe. It appears that the Vatican thinks it knows something is coming and is positioning itself to prepare the faithful for a so-called “disclosure event”. Cris Putnam, co-author with Tom Horn of On the Path of the Immortals, joins us to discuss his research and the belief since the beginning of history that mountains are the places where gods descend to meet with man.Continue Reading
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VOTERS IN Turkey go to the polls this weekend. At stake are the ambitions of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who apparently wants to reestablish the caliphate. Cliff Garner discusses the political situation in Turkey and why some scholars see Erdogan’s goal as the prophesied Beast of Revelation.Continue Reading
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THE WORLD we know is not the world that used to be. Mark Combs joins us to discuss his book End the Beginning, the reasons God destroyed the world, and why Noah’s ark was such a beautiful piece of engineering.Continue Reading
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LAST WEEK, the Vatican formally acknowledged the existence of a Palestinian state. Israelis, as you might guess, are generally unhappy about this development. Jim Fletcher, host of Israel Watch on Rapture Ready Radio and the director of Prophecy Matters, joined us to discuss the implications for Israel and a growing tide of anti-Israel sentiment among American evangelicals.Continue Reading
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