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You can't have read too many LostTribe replies.

Well I have read most of them over the years and I can't recall any comment which even faintly resembles what you are allegeing. It looks to me like you need to get your mouth under control until your head catches up. It is one thing to debate the facts but quite another to just mindlessly throw rocks.

Your scatterbrained accusations and ravings are about as welcome (and as appropriate) as a fart in church.

When evaluating the various "theories" about what happened to the Lost Tribes of Israel it's important to determine who is coming from where, who's Ox is being gored, and who has the most to lose. It doesn't take a lot of imagination to figure out in whose interest it is that the Lost Tribes never be found. If they are never found, then there is no problem. Lost Tribes tell no tales.

An alternate to keeping the Lost Tribes lost is to "find them", but not in their Biblical form as a Huge Israelite Nation now grown much larger, but perhaps as a scabby little tribe of desert nomads huddled around campfires, watering their camels and picking their noses. Now they would be harmless (and controllable) enough.

Better yet, "find" them as a number of small (but controllable) groups of obscure people, scattered here and there around the world. If they practise circumcision they are sure fire candidates, even though that was an Abrahamic practise, not starting with Jews. The important thing is to divert attention away from the REAL Lost Tribes, to dilute the issue. Dilute it enough and it goes away.

To those ends, various books, TV specials, even computer games have been created in an attempt to "address and control" the Lost Tribes issue, which becomes stronger each year as Archeological finds continue to confirm the accuracy of the Bible. Amazingly, these media devices always do manage to find some obscure Tribes, but never the REAL Lost Tribes of Israel which are the ~One BILLION American and Europeans of Celtic origin.

The TV special "Quest For The Lost Tribes" shown on A&E was an especially egregious example of raw political propagada, offered with a straight face worthy of the Clinton administration. You can sometimes spot probable bias by simply noting the sponsoring organizations, or the producers and other participants. This one was a hoot. Be sure to watch it the next time it comes around, just to observe how they skirt the real issues.

Also observe who offers apparently sound and logical analysis of solid Biblical and Historical sources for your consideration and checking, and who offers only shouting, ridicule, name calling, hollow claims without evidence, and intellectual terrorism. That says a lot.

-LT