Animated Cartoon: The History of Religion in the Holy Land

[MineralMan]

My comment? Which land? My land - for the moment. Your land, if you can take it from me. But wait...it's just a small little part of this planet, which did just fine for a few billion years, until humans evolved and started fighting over it.

[EarnestPutz]

1. I missed the part where God gave the "holy" land to the Jews.

Thanks for the great "cartoon", I had no idea the history was so messy and complicated.
Tribalism at it's finest.

[MineralMan]

2. Plus, that Andy Williams soundtrack is just fabulous, doncha think?

YouTube is a rich source of wonderful Bible-based cartoons. Everyone's favorite Bible stories have been transformed into cartoons the whole family can enjoy.

A guy could spend hours watching them:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=religious+cartoons

[EarnestPutz]

4. The choice of the Andy Williams soundtrack was absolutely inspired.

I'll check out YouTube for the others. It's not like I don't waste a lot
of time on YouTube anyway. Thanks.

[Igel]

3. I stopped when I went to check out why it said the Sumerians emigrated from India.

It's a theory pretty much nobody but Indians and those who really don't want Sumerians to be indigenous for some reason accept. It grasps at straws using 100-year-old hypotheses that rest on 125-year-old conclusions based on mostly inaccurate data. Ditch the inaccurate part, and you're left with insufficient information for any hypothesis.

Nationalism makes a bad bedrock for theories that need to argue ex silencio.

What's amusing is the assumption that they "appeared" and had to come from somewhere. Now, for Amerindians, yes--there was no human presence here before a certain date. But for Mesopotamia, that date is long, long before the Sumerians put their first stylus to clay.