Comments by "Bruce Tucker" (@brucetucker4847) on "The REAL Religion behind National Socialism" video.

  1. It also appears in Celtic and Native American art. Often it represents the wheel of the sun rolling across the sky.
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  2. Just be careful you don;t get drawn in. It can be extremely seductive.
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  3.  @TheImperatorKnight  The position of the Church has always been that the Apocryphon of John was not actually written by the Apostle John, it is a forgery. I believe that the consensus among secular scholars is also that it was written by unknown gnostics in the 2nd century and was not written by the author of the Book of Revelation or the Gospel According to John.
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  4. Gnosticism isn't really a religion or a movement, though. It's more a common thread in many religions, a way of looking at the world. It would be like calling Monotheism a religion, or calling asceticism a religion.
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  5. Elron certainly knew a fair amount about the occult, and he incorporated that knowledge into Scientology, but if you really want to understand Scientology, you have to understand that at its heart it is not a religion or a belief system, it's just a scam. The only revelation Elron ever had was that fleecing rubes with a fake religion would pay WAY better than writing science fiction.
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  6. I'm sure they'd like to believe that, the problem is that a very reliable 1st century source, Josephus, reported it is a movement originating out of Judaism. There is, of course, little doubt that it was strongly influenced by Greek philosophy and by other mystery cults, but then, Judaism was also strongly influenced by other religions, particularly Persian religion. The Judaism of Jesus day was very different from anything believed or practiced in Judah in 600 BC (and also very different in some respects from modern Judaism - and Christianity developed out of that different Judaism, not out of the version we have today).
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  7.  @godscroissant1539  You're talking about the evolution of the name they used, not the actual conception of God. And it's not even the same God in the history of Judaism - at one time YHWH and El/Elohim did not refer to the same deity. When the Jews came to understand that there is only one God, their conception of that God changed radically, and can't really be compared to earlier conceptions that used the same name. They just repurposed both names to refer to the new conception.
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