It’s interesting that only Muslims and a small group of rabid anti-Catholics have continued to refer to Hislop both directly and indirectly since Hislop was thoroughly debunked by academics in the late thirties and again in the early fifties. It’s like people who refer to archaeological theories Nazi archaeologists formulated without bothering to mention that those theories were formulated to fit a specific preconception that furthered the Nazi agenda. There’s such a strong thread of Muslim misinformation through all of his conclusions that it seems to me he must have relied on the oral traditions of those who worked on digs more than the writings of the academics who had run them and studied the results. And that’s the most generous conclusion I could come to.
Hagee and others have continued to reenforce Hislop’s myths - Hagee’s four sermon set “Prophecy for the 21st Century” includes the sermon “Mystery Babylon, The Great Mother of Harlots.” Ian Paisley’s twin brother in “imaginative thought” - Papists are the “The Whores of Babylon”.
And that’s just a few of Hagee’s most blatant anti-Catholic filth - he also claims that “Romanism” is the apostate church, a world-wide religious system that is rejected by God and will be destroyed in the end times. He states that God will allow the anti-Christ to destroy Romanism and the city of Rome, and that the destruction of Rome by fire is prophesied in Revelation 18. (Hagee also uses the term “Queen of Heaven” in reference to the Church, the same term continues to be used by other independent church leaders to reference THE DEMON that supposedly prevents Roman Catholics, Jews and Muslims from converting to evangelical Christianity.
In the Mystery Babylon sermon Hagee states that the “Whore of Babylon” or apostate church of the end times “is not limited to the Roman church” and that there will be apostates throughout other churches.
He defines these doomed for hell apostates as those who believe in the use of intermediaries (priests), sacraments, ritual and repetition (liturgy), belief in purgatory, belief in works as opposed to grace, and other features Hagee claims are part of the demonic and false religion of Semiramis.
Hagee’s sermon(s) are almost the same as Hislop’s pamphlets/books. The Two Babylons/The Papal Worship - Hislop claimed that Catholicism is the DEMONIC WORSHIP developed by Semiramis, supposedly the consort of the Babylonian king Nimrod, and passed down to modern times through the Church. He claims that Protestantism is the only true religion. Hislop’s book has been thoroughly debunked but generations later, with help from the Hagee’s of the world, it continues to feed the useless idiots - > Protestant fundamentalists, Statists, and Muslims.
An interesting tidbit - the 1959 edition of Hislop’s book has an overleaf written by Donald Grey Barnhouse - Barnhouse was the long term pastor and mentor of C. Everett Koop, the former Surgeon General and coauthor with Francis Schaeffer of Whatever Happened to the Human Race. There’s usually a relationship with the past, interbreeding, and a book. Darwin, Fabianism, Eugenism, Theosophistism, New Dawnism, Scottish Rite Freemasonaryism...comes to mind.
PS: Nimrod and Semiramis, is neither biblical nor historic. Mystery Babylon is a term from Revelation but Semiramis is not even mentioned in the Bible, and there is only a brief reference to Nimrod in Genesis 10. Hagee’s version is not only directed at Catholics but includes Jews as a major source - he claims they’re also followers of the demonic Babylonian religion.
Hitler and Mufti Haj Amin el-Husseini were joined at the hip - there are connections with the occult, paganism, leftists, eugenists, bankers and/or Freemasons - perhaps freemasonary covers all of them. I’m not convinced the primary source was Muslims or Hitler. I believe it was a lot broader and going on a lot longer.
Yes, there’s always a book, pamphelet, play, movie, documentary, manifesto, little red book, little black book, which appears to pop it’s head up at an appropriate time in history. Whether it was during the Renaissance - Arcadian (Utopian) or the Sixties and the Arcadian (Utopian) Age of Aquarius, these “happenstance” bursts of “freedoms” arose...we’re freeeeeee now let’s all take our clothes off, drug ourselves into oblivion, practice whatever religion we want and become our own gods. People are so confused with the tripe that they’re mixing pagan myths with reality - one might even suspect it’s a deliberate ploy, that is, if one were into conspiracy theories. :)