ImmaculateShadow
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So I saw this post by one of my favorite NBers today on a thread that no longer exists —
Here's the thing NB, I would have just simply laughed at this post and asked ST if he was Mormon, but then I read comments from people asking for more information, that's when I knew I couldn't sit by. I had to make a thread talking about the every thing I know to the invalid nature of this claim of Israelites in American Folk Lore.
Here is the hypothesis: that the principle ancestor of the Native Americans were in fact the Israelites, one of the lost twelve tribes of Israel.
The above quote from ST is at least 60% lies fabricated in, for the most part, America during the 1800's. This doesn't mean that they weren't wide spread in those times though - they were extremely popular. It was thought that one of the major evidences for the hypothesis came from the burial mounds which the European settlers found all across the land scape of the eastern coast. The settlers just couldn't conceive of the notion that the Native Tribes had the sophistication to make them. No, really.
One of the major proponents of this idea was a man named Ethan Smith, who wrote a book in 1824 [and printed an extended copy in 1825] called View of the Hebrews. I have one on the book shelf behind me. It's a fascinating view in to the mind of the 1800's American Christian, that is if you like American history connected with Mormonism, but a boring read.
The shady and shaky cult, known as the LDS & Mormon church, are the next perpetuators of this lie. On April 6th 1830 Joseph Smith Jr. & Oliver Cowdery founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints after transcribing the Book of Mormon from what they called the Golden Plates. Later we would find out that the book of Mormon was actually written mostly by a man named Sidney Rigdon - who was a friend of Cowdery - some time durring 1826 - 1827. The book of Mormon is a book of false history pretending to be a new Christian scripture - it has never come good on it's claims. Among which is our topic - the Native American Tribes as Israelites.
I know this because because I grew up in the LDS church and now I'm currently a proud Ex-Mormon.
Alright, time for the claims.
† America was technically founded by the Israelites — No, there is no physical or written evidence that Israelites ever came to America before their immigration.
† Phoenicians came to America during their civilizations sea faring period — No, there is also no written or physical evidence that this took place.
† The Phoenicians sailers used their own legends of sea dwelling monsters to conceal what they were doing in the atlantic — This is true, however, given that they were not the only people sailing on the Atlantic from 1200BCE to their final decline around 65BCE it can hardly be said that they could have moved to America without notice. In fact the idea is ludicrous.
† The Phoenician sailers could have kept America & their voyages to it a secret — No, with the kind of resources it would take to voyage across the Atlantic it would have been impossible to keep under wraps let alone keeping several voyages over a huge span of time.
† The Phoenicians & the Israelites mingled with the people that were already on the continent to produce what we now know as Native Americans — No, a large scale investigation in to the genetic code of people from all around the world, including the Native American Tribes, has been conducted to find the genetic markers in our DNA. The Native Americans have all been found to be lacking any thing even closely related to Phoenicians or Israelites genetic markers.
† The Norse-Germanic People tried to settle in America - This is true, yet it was unsuccessful because of the time it took people to travel between what was then [1100CE - ?] Vinland & the rest of Greenland, Iceland, Norway & Sweden. This travel time made it hard to communicate with those who were funding the expeditions. So much so that by the time they would get back to their respective kingdoms the political powers that had sent them in the first place had shifted, died or were killed.
The rest is ether true or true enough, you can decide for your self. In other words - ST, I'm calling you out on your BS.
- cheers WTH
— Then I thought to myself.No, technically the Americas, as we call it now, were founded by the Israelites. The Israelites formed a powerful sea empire at one time call the Phoenicians today. They spread a rumor throughout Europe, Africa and Asia about giant sea monsters that dwelled in the deep oceans, so no one was brave enough to travel too far from the coast. What they were really doing was tryig to keep the continents over here a secret, and it worked for a long time.
The Native Americans were what was left of those Israelite tribes that journeyed over. There may have been people already here before them, but no records remain of that. The Norse also traveled here at one point but were unable to set up a civilization, probably due to the Israelite tribes that were already here. Then sometime in the far future, a man name Christopher Columbus landed on an island in Central America...he actually never found a single continent.
Once Europe was aware that there were lands here for the taking, then voyages were sent underway. For a long time the settlers and the natives (the Israelite tribes) were peaceful, everything was fine. It didn't take long for a rift to begin though. A large part of it was due to greed, plus the tribes weren't exactly on friendly terms with each other and often made bargains with the settlers to attack their enemies. After long enough, it was clear that the settlers had taken sides on certain things, and then it wasn't long before bad stuff started to happen.
On top of that, the natives were also killed off by diseases that were brought over. We were immune to them, but they weren't and it spread like wild fire.
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Here's the thing NB, I would have just simply laughed at this post and asked ST if he was Mormon, but then I read comments from people asking for more information, that's when I knew I couldn't sit by. I had to make a thread talking about the every thing I know to the invalid nature of this claim of Israelites in American Folk Lore.
Here is the hypothesis: that the principle ancestor of the Native Americans were in fact the Israelites, one of the lost twelve tribes of Israel.
The above quote from ST is at least 60% lies fabricated in, for the most part, America during the 1800's. This doesn't mean that they weren't wide spread in those times though - they were extremely popular. It was thought that one of the major evidences for the hypothesis came from the burial mounds which the European settlers found all across the land scape of the eastern coast. The settlers just couldn't conceive of the notion that the Native Tribes had the sophistication to make them. No, really.
One of the major proponents of this idea was a man named Ethan Smith, who wrote a book in 1824 [and printed an extended copy in 1825] called View of the Hebrews. I have one on the book shelf behind me. It's a fascinating view in to the mind of the 1800's American Christian, that is if you like American history connected with Mormonism, but a boring read.
The shady and shaky cult, known as the LDS & Mormon church, are the next perpetuators of this lie. On April 6th 1830 Joseph Smith Jr. & Oliver Cowdery founded the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints after transcribing the Book of Mormon from what they called the Golden Plates. Later we would find out that the book of Mormon was actually written mostly by a man named Sidney Rigdon - who was a friend of Cowdery - some time durring 1826 - 1827. The book of Mormon is a book of false history pretending to be a new Christian scripture - it has never come good on it's claims. Among which is our topic - the Native American Tribes as Israelites.
I know this because because I grew up in the LDS church and now I'm currently a proud Ex-Mormon.
Alright, time for the claims.
† America was technically founded by the Israelites — No, there is no physical or written evidence that Israelites ever came to America before their immigration.
† Phoenicians came to America during their civilizations sea faring period — No, there is also no written or physical evidence that this took place.
† The Phoenicians sailers used their own legends of sea dwelling monsters to conceal what they were doing in the atlantic — This is true, however, given that they were not the only people sailing on the Atlantic from 1200BCE to their final decline around 65BCE it can hardly be said that they could have moved to America without notice. In fact the idea is ludicrous.
† The Phoenician sailers could have kept America & their voyages to it a secret — No, with the kind of resources it would take to voyage across the Atlantic it would have been impossible to keep under wraps let alone keeping several voyages over a huge span of time.
† The Phoenicians & the Israelites mingled with the people that were already on the continent to produce what we now know as Native Americans — No, a large scale investigation in to the genetic code of people from all around the world, including the Native American Tribes, has been conducted to find the genetic markers in our DNA. The Native Americans have all been found to be lacking any thing even closely related to Phoenicians or Israelites genetic markers.
† The Norse-Germanic People tried to settle in America - This is true, yet it was unsuccessful because of the time it took people to travel between what was then [1100CE - ?] Vinland & the rest of Greenland, Iceland, Norway & Sweden. This travel time made it hard to communicate with those who were funding the expeditions. So much so that by the time they would get back to their respective kingdoms the political powers that had sent them in the first place had shifted, died or were killed.
The rest is ether true or true enough, you can decide for your self. In other words - ST, I'm calling you out on your BS.
- cheers WTH
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