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Sunday, August 23, 2026

Every civilization that has ever existed worshipped something. Not most of them " all of them. And for a long time the academic world told us that meant religion evolved upward " that primitive people invented spirits, those spirits became gods, and monotheism came last as the most sophisticated development.

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That story is wrong.

And the evidence that contradicts it has been sitting in the anthropological and archaeological record for over a century.

In this video we follow the actual evidence " from the oldest human structure ever discovered, to the most isolated cultures on earth, to the linguistic roots of languages that predate recorded history " and show that the world's most ancient religious expressions don't point toward primitive animism groping upward.

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In this video:

"The anthropological case for original monotheism
Gbekli Tepe and what the oldest human structure tells us about the first religion
Wilhelm Schmidt and the Urmonotheismus thesis
The sky father concept across six continents
How urbanization distorted the original knowledge of God
Babel in the biblical narrative and in the archaeological record
Three post-Babel religious streams and what they preserved
The embers that survived " Melchizedek, Job, and the widow of Zarephath"

Scott has some excellent videos on ancient history, including this one with over a million and a half views so far this year:

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#1 | Posted by Corky at 2026-08-23 05:53 PM | Reply

god is a myth cave people tell.

#2 | Posted by Brennnn at 2026-08-23 07:06 PM | Reply

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