You're listening to the ancient tradition. A Wonk Media production. Music provided by Joseph McDade. Here's your host, Dr. Jack Logan.

Welcome to the ancient tradition.

I'm your host, Jack Logan.

If this is your first time listening to the ancient tradition,

it's great to have you along with us.

You're in for a potentially life-altering experience if you're genuinely interested in the theology of the ancients.

See, the ancients taught that a unique, unadulterated religious tradition was revealed either directly by God or his emissaries to human beings from the very

onset of time. And what's so interesting about this ancient religious tradition is that deep

threads of it run through and make up the core religious doctrines of nearly every single

religious tradition that we see today. And what's more, this religious heritage not only shows up in the world's religious

traditions, it shows up all over in what we would consider to be highly secularized

aspects of society.

From our banking system to the regalia that we see at graduation ceremonies, to

Esclepius' rod, which is used to symbolize

the healthcare industry, to the eagle atop American flagpoles, to the Christmas tree, to the seven

days of the week, to the coronation of kings and queens, and to what might appear to be a trivial

pack of playing cards. It's literally everywhere if only you know

what you're looking at, and if you understand the religious heritage that underpins it.

For that reason on this podcast, we dig into the world's oldest sacred writings, which are

found almost universally in the ancient near east, in ancient Egypt,

in ancient Mesopotamia, which today is modern day Iraq, Turkey, Iran, northeastern Syria,

and in ancient Persia, Anatolia, the Arabian Peninsula, and in the Levant, which is modern-day Syria, Lebanon, Israel,

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