The Ba'al Theory of Christianity - 

Or The Forgotten Influence of Phoenician's Valuing of Human Sacrifice - On the Development of Judaism and Christianity Home

This site looks at social and political history over thousands of years and the impact of these events on religious development in the Western World; Christianity’s development in particular. This site looks at how the conflict of cultures between major and lessor societies during these centuries led to many merging of ideas and the morphing of one religion into another.  The primary focus of the writings is how the religions of the Canaanites, Phoenicians, Hebrews/Israelites/Jews (along with Persian and Classical religions) and the assorted peoples who supported the Christian religion evolved and intermixed.  Unlike most writings on this type of subject, the focus of the site is to show how the politics helped to shape religions.  In other words, this is not a site that looks at how the divine influenced the mundane, but how the mundane created the divine.

In particular, the purpose of the site is to explore the similarities between the core beliefs of the worshiper of Ba’al and the core beliefs of Christianity. We focus on the key concept – that God sacrificed his only begotten son – and show that this belief was one of very ancient origin, clearly arising from the religion of the Canaanite/Phoenician religion, or “Ba’alism.”  The overall claim of Book One of this site is that Christianity has more in common with the much maligned religion of the Phoenicians then it does with Judaism.

Book Two explores the impact of the transition of the rituals of “Ba’alism” into the Christian setting and into the modern world with extensive disastrous consequences for world history.

This is obviously a major departure from standard Christian dominated history and needs extensive support to prove the points.  Therefore this site proves such support but in somewhat of a user friendly design.  We avoid the overly academic approach to these types of writings in hopes that more people will be willing to explore the concepts and theories presented.

The site has eight components:

• Table of Contents
• An Executive Summary of the two books
• Introductory Essays
• Timeline of Critical Events
• A Downloads Page, where you can download Book 1 and Book 2.  You can download them in pdf format, which you can print out or read on your computer.  You can also download a mobi version, which you can read on your Kindle.  Finally, we have provided an epub version, that you can read on your Nook or other e-reader.
• A slide show version of the Executive Summary
• A Blog and Feedback section

Just to be clear, our approach is based exclusively on the historical record – this is not a religious site and we are not promoting or attacking any particular set of beliefs, unless of course they can be truly supported by the historical record!  The premise is that all religions are equally creations of human interactions and politics, not divine message.

We look forward to your feedback and comments.