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dence shows that true religion always ex-
isted. The following pages will examine the
Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Indian and
European civilizations together with the
Aztecs, Incas and Mayans to prove that they all believed in one God
and were visited by messengers who communicated true religion to
them. The first researcher to discover that polytheism had originally
contained monotheism was Stephen Langdon of Oxford University.
In 1931, he announced his findings to the scientific world,
saying that they were quite unexpected and totally at
odds with previous evolutionist interpretations.
Langdon explained his findings as follows:
. . . the history of the oldest civilization of man is a rapid
decline from monotheism to extreme polytheism and
widespread belief in evil spirits. 73
Five years later, Langdon would state in The
Scotsman as follows:
The evidence points unmistakably to an original
monotheism, the inscriptions and literary remains of
the oldest Semitic peoples also indicate . . . monothe-
ism, and the totemistic origin of Hebrew and other
Semitic religions is now entirely discredited. 74
Excavations at modern Tell Asmar, the site of a
Sumerian city dating from 3,000 BCE, unearthed find-
ings that completely corroborated Langdon's ideas.
The excavation director, Henry Frankfort, gave this
official report:

The picture to the side shows a "god of lightning," one of the
Sumerians' false deities that emerged when the one true Divine belief
became corrupted.

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