religion

Barely 4-months after the historic breaking apart of the Russian Orthodox Church many believe will lead to war, Moscow became greatly concerned when Pope Frances, the leader of an estimated 1.2 billion Roman Catholic Christians in the world, suddenly announced that he would be making an historic visit to the Middle Eastern Muslim monarchy United Arab Emirateson 3-5 February—a concern that rose to outright terror after Pope Francis met with Grand Imam of al-Azhar Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, the leaders of the world’s estimated 1.5 billion Sunni Muslims—and whom together signed a “One World Religion” agreement against the tenets of both Christianity and Islam. […]

The religion of the Babylonians and Assyrians was the polytheistic faith professed by the peoples inhabiting the Tigris and Euphrates valleys from what may be regarded as the dawn of history until the Christian era began, or, at least, until the inhabitants were brought under the influence of Christianity. The chronological period covered may be roughly estimated at about 5000 years. The belief of the people, at the end of that time, being Babylonian heathenism leavened with Judaism, the country was probably ripe for the reception of the new faith. Christianity, however, by no means replaced the earlier polytheism, as is evidenced by the fact, that the worship of Nebo and the gods associated with him continued until the fourth century of the Christian era. […]