After years of work, I’m happy (and somewhat nervous) to share what I’ve learned from my childhood cult experience. Perhaps the best introduction to my discoveries is summarized on the back of my book:
In many ways human history is religious history. The ideas of ‘god/s’ and ‘goddess/es’ have influenced our past more than any other thoughts.
Fifty years ago my life was thrown into turmoil. I was indoctrinated into a fundamentalist Catholic cult, and the problems I faced caused me to slowly investigate my religious ideas. Laughing At The Devil: One Man’s Religious Discoveries shares the groundbreaking results of my efforts, and reveals the forgotten thoughts of our early priests as they struggled to understand their deities – the stars and planets.
My greatest discovery is the astronomic investigations our early Judeo-Christian intellectuals recorded in an ancient biblical myth: the Samson story. Over five-hundred years before scientific language came into existence, our investigators grasped for ways to understand and explain their observations. The thirty-three celestial events recorded in Samson’s tale are clearly illuminated within its pages.
My work shines a new light on the roots of our Bible. Hopefully, that light helps us understand our history – and ourselves – better. Whether you are religious or atheist, you are certain to learn something new within its pages.
The forgotten history I’ve discovered is summarized in the following two YouTube videos. I hope you find them interesting and enlightening: