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On Friday, March 21, 2008 at 2:50:30 AM UTC-7, Meldon Fens wrote:
> "...Aaron said to them, "Tear off the gold rings which are in the ears of
> your
> wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me." Then all the
> people tore off the gold rings which were in their ears and brought them to
> Aaron. He took this from their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool
> and made it into a molten calf; and they said, "This is your god, O Israel,
> who brought you up from the land of Egypt." - Exodus 32:1-4
> 
> 
> "...There are approximately 89 references to the god Baal in the Old
> Testament (OT). Further, the OT makes reference to other Canaanite deities
> including the goddess Asherah (40 times) as well as the goddess Ashtoreth
> (10 times).3 In total, there appears to be about 139 clear references to
> major Canaanite deities in the OT.4 In a brief survey of the passages in
> which reference is made to Baal worship, such things are noted as the high
> places at which Baal worship occurred within Israel (e.g., Num 22:41)5,
> Israel's propensity for engaging in Baal worship at certain points in her
> history (cf. Judges 2:11; 3:7; 8:33; 10:6, 10, Hosea 2:13, etc.), as well as
> the cultic practices of certain Baal prophets (cf. 1 Kings 18:25-29). ..."
> 
> http://www.bible.org/page.php?page_id=2053
> 
> 
> "...The style of writing discovered at Ugarit is known as alphabetic
> cuneiform. This is a unique blending of an alphabetic script and cuneiform;
> thus it is a unique blending of two styles of writing. Most likely it came
> into being as cuneiform was passing from the scene and alphabetic scripts
> were making their rise. Ugaritic is thus a bridge from one to the other...."
> 
> http://phoenicia.org/ugarbibl.html
> 
> 
> "...Classical sources relate how the Carthaginians burned their children as
> offerings to Ba'al Hammon. See Moloch for a discussion of these traditions
> and conflicting thoughts on the matter. Such a devouring of children fits
> well with the Greek traditions of Cronus. Prostitution as a form of worship
> also may have been done, especially when the Carthaginians began to
> recognize Ba'al as a fertility god...."
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baal
> 
> 
> "...The sculpture was the artist's idea, not the city's. In an act of
> "guerrilla art", he trucked it to Lower Manhattan and on December 15, 1989,
> installed it in front of the New York Stock Exchange as a Christmas gift to
> the people of New York.
> The police seized the sculpture and placed it into an impound lot. The
> ensuing public outcry led the New York City Department of Parks and
> Recreation to install it two blocks south of the Exchange in the plaza at
> Bowling Green. It faces up Broadway.[2]...."
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charging_Bull
> 
> Meet your god face to face: GDP = C + I + G + (X-M)
> 
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