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The majority of Protestant polemics against the Roman Catholic Church have failed to make a dent in the papacy\'s armor. This is because they have consisted mainly of contrasting Rome\'s doctrines with the Scriptures. However, Romanists are quick to point out that they have another source of divine revelation -- sacred tradition -- which always takes precedent over Scripture when the two come into conflict (they will seldom be so blunt as to admit this in so many words). Hislop cuts right to the root of the problem by demonstrating that Rome\'s \"sacred tradition\" is indeed ancient, but it comes straight from pagan Babylon and has nothing at all to do with the worship of the True God of the Bible. Until Protestants (i.e. true Christians) come to grips with the facts presented in this book -- that the Roman Catholic Church is not merely an abberrant form of Christianity, but a completely different religion altogether -- the deceptive power of Rome will not be abated. Although I don\'t agree with Hislop\'s obvious historicist eschatology, his work is nevertheless one of the best histories of the ancient world ever published and will help the reader make sense of many of the more obscure and hard-to-understand portions of the Old Testament (especially the books of Jeremiah and Isaiah).
Greg Loren Durand
Dahlonega, Georgia
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