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Chapter IX: Sacrament of the Eucharist/Holy Communion

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              This portion of the tract/comic marks the beginnings of Chick’s attacks on teachings of the Eucharist/Holy Communion.  He gives as his citation his 1978 comic Angel of Light , but, as mentioned previously, he is really referencing Alexander Hislop’s The Two Babylons .  I mentioned previously that Hislop’s arguments were either not historic, or they fell in line with the logical/rhetorical fallacy known as “Hasty Generalization.”  But sometimes, they were just plain wrong.             Baal was not the sun god for the ancient Babylonians; he was a fertility god.  The Babylonian sun god was Shamash.  Likewise, Osiris was not the sun god for the ancient Egyptians; he was the god for fertility and the underworld.  Ra was the Egyptian sun god.  Furthermore, it is highly doubtful that a priest for either Baal, Shamash, Osiris, o...