PISHTORY

Bill McMurdo claims on his blog that he encourages 'lively discussion' but that he doesn't want abusive remarks or bad language. A quick perusal of the posts on his blog shows that he doesn't adhere to this policy too strictly. In fact, there are only two kinds of post that Merlin doesn't like. The first is calling 'Rangers' a new team or saying that the club went into liquidation. The second is any criticism of the many pseudo-histories that Orangemen, and other extremist, right-wing Protestants hold so dear. Such a post is usually moderated out of existence.

Of course, they don't hold with any of the daft theories about Freemasons running the world or the Royal Family being alien lizards. Their reading matter of choice is almost exclusively about Roman Catholics running the world behind the scenes and about Roman Catholicism being a pagan religion, usually derived from Babylon somehow.

One of these was written by some headbanger of a Free-Church minister in the mid-Nineteenth Century, by the name of Alexander Hislop. His book is called 'The Two Babylons or The Papal Worship Proved to be the Worship of Nimrod and His Wife.' As you might expect, this book is a load of half-truths, utter shite and downright lies. The Orange bigots, however, lap it up like mother's milk.

If you've never heard of Nimrod, he's some king in the Book of Genesis, who supposedly lived around the time of Abraham. Nobody has figured out who the hell this guy is, although plenty of candidates have been put forward. Auld Hislop, however, has it all figured out. Nimrod was king of Babylon and he insisted that he be worshipped as a god. Nimrod's wife, Semiramis, was also worshipped as a goddess. The fact that Semiramis was apparently born a couple of hundred years after the time that Nimrod was supposedly shagging her in a god-like fashion seems to concern Hislop not a jot.

Anway, Hislop posits all kinds of convoluted theories about ancient religions to reach the point where the Catholic Church, at the time of Constantine, adopted the worship of pagan, Roman gods. Why they should have done this is not explained. He makes the claim that pictures of Mary with the baby Jesus are, in reality, some Roman goddess, while the baby was 'Jupiter-Puer' or the baby Jupiter. The fact is that the Romans had no such cult of Jupiter as a child and Hislop was the first person to come up with the name, 'Jupiter-Puer.'

Hislop outlines the practices of the Ancient Greek Eleusinian Mysteries, even though nobody knows anything about this cult's practices or even who they worshipped. His whole book is made up of ridiculous nonsense like this, which normal scholars find laughable.

Another bam they all orgasm over is Tupper Saussy, a bitter wee man with a chip on his shoulder about the American Government. This guy spouts the same pish as Hislop and tries to prove that the 'pagan' RC Church runs the world. Again, his book is full of all manner of crap. He claims that the Dog Star, Canis Major, is named after Cain, when anybody with even the most rudimentary knowledge of Latin knows that 'canis' is Latin for 'dog.' He also says that the title 'Pontifex Maximus' was a Babynonian one, which was adopted in Rome in 48BC, even though the title went back to the times of the kings in Rome, about 500 years before!

Another guy called Ralph Woodrow wrote a similar book, based on Hislop's 'findings' and was embarrassed to later discover that it was a load of Craig Whyte. He pulled the book from circulation, even though it was a bestseller. Of course, he has since received death threats from extremist Protestants around the world. It seems that The Peeppell are the same everywhere!

If you have a look on Amazon you can find dozens of these pathetic attempts to rewrite history. Or you can find some of them on McMurdo's website, including some that he's written himself! They all have one thing in common: anti-Catholicism. Haven't these people got anything better to do with their lives?

From believing these ridiculous versions of history, which even David Icke would laugh at, it's but a short steop to believe any old crap, like Ireland refueling U-boats and even a dead club not being dead after all!