Talk:Alexander Hislop

Removed Portion
I'll put this here, it seems the person had a thought but it didn't come out right:

"This evidence has inspired many to retrace the pre-roman church to institude a completing of the first reformation back to the Acts model of Christianity, which is more like pre-rabbinical Judaism with acception that Jesus Christ had fulfilled the law so that others could follow Him by grace to be conformed to His image."

Place of Birth
Does anyone know where in Scotland Hislop was born, and brought-up? Also schooling and university (if any) would be useful for article.--Mais oui! 08:59, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

Venus
Venus was not the Roman mother goddess and Cupid was a male deity. Venus was the goddess of love. The Romans permitted worship of Cybel the Syrian mother goddess, but as she was a foreign deity her cult was merely tolerated. Hislop was a poor scholar and makes me ashamed of my Scottish ancestory.

'Venus Genetrix was regarded as the mother of the Roman people', Sir Paul Harvey, Oxford Companion to Classical Literature, p.445. Maybe Hislop wasn't sure a poor scholar. — Preceding unsigned comment added by James Begg (talk • contribs) 11:16, 1 September 2014 (UTC)

You can't be honest when attacking the Catholic Church. 173.86.0.84 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 05:49, 7 March 2016 (UTC)


 * Venus is attributed as Meni from the Canaanite/Babylonian pantheon in Isaiah 65:11 along side Gad (GAWD) in the Bible stated as a troop or fortune for gad, and destiny or fate for meni. Also this same Venus/meni is in direct correlation with Menat/Meniyatt of the Arabian/South Arabian pantheons. 2601:600:8500:69A0:EA1F:27DE:29A9:A945 (talk) 06:43, 23 December 2022 (UTC)

POV bias
I removed a link to an obviously POV (ironic, isn't it) book that accuses Hislop of being similar to 1980's "anti-Satan cult hysteria". The work cited seemed less reliable, if anything, and guilty of the same charges directed against Hislop. Wikipedia should not be a place to fight a religious battleground. This article should explain Hislop's views from an objective standpoint.76.105.99.188 (talk) 22:07, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

Hislop's claims
Over the past 150 years, various claims made by Hislop in The Two Babylons, especially concerning Semiramis, have been debunked by historians. A section needs to be added "Criticism" providing links to published research. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.155.214.127 (talk) 22:38, 24 July 2014 (UTC)


 * Why has no-one done it?
 * English is not my mother tongue, so I prefer someone else doing it, not me.
 * --Helmut w.k. (talk) 17:19, 23 June 2019 (UTC)

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