Original Sin: Ritual Child Rape & The church Paperback – October 16, 2012

An eye opener. Also read the Sibyls, Mami Wata. This book confirms what's revealed in that book.

The author was quite professional in his approach to this topic. His discussion of Roman life fits well with the things I learned while learning Latin in high school. The book is well researched and easily understood. It is probably shocking to someone who has no knowledge of the Roman empire customs and beliefs.

I learning so much truth. Ammon U.

Well, this was certainly an entertaining read and a great follow-up to his other book "Hermaphrodites.Gynomorphs & Jesus"In fact, I wonder if both works are the sections deleted from his original PhD dissertation?Most of the comments I was going to make have already been covered in the earlier review by J.Lacey. The main reason I gave this book a 4 star rating is due to it's complete lack of documentation, notes, and bibliography. The book could have been twice as thick if the author had supplied the sources and comments on the quotations that were inset throughout the text. I would have loved to have followed up on his sources and read his quotes in context. A very interesting read (although somewhat repetitious in places) but it comes off as more of a New Age book rather than the factual text it purports to be.

Dr Hillman has blown the lid off the origins of religion. this book is absolutely jaw dropping, I found myself shaking my head at the pure evils the church inflicted and still continues to inflict on children and adults to this day. a girlfriend of mine brought this book over my house and as I went through the book I immediately ordered a copy for myself. this book is a must for all who follow blindly behind religion, but sadly most will not read it because of their indoctrination into fear. I cannot espouse enough how the book exposes the evil that still persist today. religion and the patriarchal systems in my opinion is the single greatest evil on this planet that sent billions to their spiritual death.this explains why women are demonized in the bible and regulated to second class citizens who were responsible for the down fall of humanity. this is why in this 24,000 year sun cycle of the divine feminine the age of Aquarius, all secret societies and haters of the Mothers be exposed. the divine feminine has arisen once again, she is here to seek retribution against those who continue to disrespect the divine feminine, we are going to see in our life time the complete destruction of these wicked empires, the divine primordial mothers will restore balance back to this planet and put and end to the wanton greed and destruction of her peoples, animals and resources. we saw the recent scandals of Sandusky and Eddie Long and we sit back and wonder why pedophilia is so wide spread and supported, there has even been rumblings of soldiers being raped, this is a culture of wicked degenerates who prey on children in the name of some sick, twisted sacred rite. there is no excuse for the continued denial and fear driven propaganda that keep the slaves on the plantation of religion. until we as a human race begin to speak out against these atrocities being done against children in the name of religion, these predators will continue to walk among us freely, having no fear of retribution for their evil acts. I thank Dr Hillman for the great eye opening work, this confirms the anger I felt as a child being forced to go to church and seeing these wicked fiendish demons, try to cloak themselves to appear holy and pious, I knew I wasn't crazy. this should be required reading for every human on this planet. I will certainly make sure its a required readings in my circle.

Many of us feel Christianity was largely a negative phenomena that destroyed so much Classical Pagan cultural traditions, restricting our freedom to find the deities and religious systems that speak to who we are. From Ireland to Syria, and everywhere in between, Christianity destroyed the Celtic Mysteries, the Germanic / Scandinavian Mysteries, the Greco-Roman Mysteries, the Greco-Egyptian Mysteries, the Phoenician Mysteries, the list goes on.Why would something from its very beginning be so power hungry, destructive, and imposing of itself, even to the point of putting non-believers to death? It's a mystery many of us want to solve, to identify those destructive tendencies as coming from the very root of its belief system. This desire is especially true in modernity with the absolute institutional sex abuse permeating in the Catholic Church's hierarchy. It's also true in even more recent times with the Catholic Church's fetishization of deviency - the way the structure finds new and conniving ways to scare its adherents into submission through gatekeeping information and fear. In recent years, the Catholic Church has been venturous in farming "social outrage" porn for money, which not only gives itself more talents of gold, but scares its followers by promoting horrific images of gross Drag Queen shows, sex scandals, The Satanic Temple, Transgender Kids, and most recently, a perceived WEF-Zionist-Molochian conspiracy, while censoring / obscuring information that shows a more accurate picture of reality.Where does this century long tendency towards sexual deviation, psychological abuse, and gatekeeping of information come from? The idea that Early Christianity may have harbored secret pathological sexual rites and these rites continue either consciously or unconsciously in Catholicism to this day is a topic that's very intriguing to me, primarily because as a matter of objective history, we have records from the Church Fathers that some Christian "heresies" were engaging in profane sexual rites.A book which solves this mystery after finding all of the "Blues Clues" paw prints left behind dirty cleric hands in the institutional Nicene Church would be phenomenal at tying this all together. However, this book is not it.Dr. Ammon claims that Christianity was a pedophilic cult that tries to "spiritually circumcize" human sexuality and render people pure in heart to Christ through historical, institutional sexual abuse of children at Baptism, where they are called to reject Satan's erotic temptations and dominance.An interesting theory, however this work is garbage. At a purely empirical level, our author provides ONE CITATION in the LAST CHAPTER ONLY from Saint Cyril of Jerusalem from which he derives, apparently, an entire century old system of ritualistic child abuse starting from Jesus.The source which this author claims this citation is from doesn’t exist. I was able to find this citation elsewhere, but it does not demonstrate what Dr. Ammon seeks to prove. I have searched through Saint Cyril’s writing and the ritual he describes has no reference.The rest of the citations about sexual abuse come from one allegation from one source of some Christians participating in a ritual orgy at one point (which can be explained as a deviation or a heresy, and doesn't establish institutional sexual abuse during baptism), the mysterious "naked youth" of Jesus in the Gospel of Mark (which doesn't establish institutional sexual abuse during baptism), and general Christian sentiments being grossed out at sexuality, redirecting that eros to Christ (a sentiment which has always referred to asceticism in the Church Fathers and doesn't establish institutional sexual abuse during baptism).Yet despite this, our author tries to invoke some hypnotic devilish Black Magick by cleverly dropping in the suggestion, unsubstantiated, happen-stance that Christianity had institutional sex abuse repeatedly through the book. As if he has proven the claim just by saying it. Unfortunately, Sith Lord mind tricks don't work on me.The rest of the book is the author projecting his own conception of "Paganism" or perhaps "Satanism" into the Classical Greco-Roman world, this idea that Rome was this Matriarchal Paradise where we worshipped sexy naked teenage girls who were free to enlighten people through sex without consequence, while people communed with the gods with DMT and LSD, without any judgment to homosexuals.He's correct in the sense that the Classical Greco-Roman world had a more positive view of sexuality and believed women had their own unique natural role and duties that men did not, and in this sense women were empowered. However, that severely undermines the patriarchal nature of Roman society which had arranged marriages and fathers had the right to sell promiscuous female teens into slavery and prostitution in order to save the family's reputation - which is not the Neoliberal Leftist social order fancied today which the author wants us to view Rome as. He also fails to mention that Christianity was largely popular with women, slaves, and lower class dregs, precisely because they didn't have the conventional freedoms we've only gained for women in the last century or so.He's also correct that certain herbs and potions and venoms were used among the cults he cites, but they weren't DMT or LSD. They were herbs like Henbane, Lotus Flowers, Hibiscus, Wormwood - herbs when used correctly in ritual would have hallucinogenic and mind expanding properties, but not to the power and extent that DMT and LSD would. DMT largely originated in Central American tribes, and LSD was only synthesized in the 1930s.The people who make these attenuated claims are usually drug addicts themselves who want to connect their drug addiction to their own pride and self-worship by identifying themselves and their perceived wisdom with the glories of Old Rome - I'm sorry, Julius Caesar was not drinking Ayahuasca when he conquered England.The one thing that's compelling about this book is the imagery he invokes in this secret rite. I don't know if the author is involved with Renaissance Era Luciferian Magick or he jams out to some Satanic theatrical bands like Ghost, but the scary ritual sounds like a third party account of an exaggerated Goetic invocation, it's really Catholic and demonic sounding. Scary.The author has real talent in his imagination and his ability to invoke Chthonic imagery - perhaps the Devil himself whispers into the author's ear, and our author could definitely use that power to create fantastic, compelling stories, tales, plays, movies, religious rituals - something. However, we live in reality, not the land of theatre, and theatrical appeal isn't what I'm looking for in this book.Overall, garbage book. Books like "Caesar's Messiah" and the book about the Dionysian secret origins of the Jesus cult, while not totally compelling, are far more compelling than this book.STAY AWAY

If other scholars were to confirm his findings, there would certainly be a paradigm shift. This book is hard to read. Be warned.

Not a book for everyone...that's the wonder of this reading

I first heard about this book on a podcast I found on iTunes. The focus of the podcast series was the Sacred Feminine, but the subject of "ritual child rape," connected to Church history, caught my attention. After listening to the short segment in which Hillman discussed his book, I was compelled to buy it, in the hope of slaking a thirst to hear more.Suffice to say, I was disappointed. The book is written in the shrill falsetto of a male feminist, whose bias against the church is clear on every page. Given his efforts to make shocking claims, supposedly based on ancient sources, I found the lack of a bibliography and footnotes kind of off-putting, especially considering his disregard for cultural practices in the Classical world, which had nothing to do with the Church, and his overuse of contemporary moralism.I was looking forward to this book being much more academic than it turned out to be. I think that, before reading this, one would be well-advised to read Walter Burkert's "Greek Religion," and Eva Cantarella's "Bisexuality in the Ancient World," for starters. If I took care to comprise a list, I'm sure there's a stack of books I'd recommend ahead of this one. If you really want to read it, save the purchase price and borrow it from someone--it's not worth the cost, unless you're into reality TV and tabloid magazines.

After the blurb - I expected a well argued and well referenced document.There's no bibliography essentially rendering this entire document to opinion and a lot of emotive anti Christian whinging.Any Christian (I am not one) could look at it and call it an incitement to religious intolerance and be correct under the law. Please re-release this book with the appropriate ammunition it needs so that Pagan scholars can use the darned thing.