I just finished this book. What an absorbing, interesting and eye-opening read! I found the footnotes as interesting as the actual book. It’s absolutely amazing the amount of “history” that was re-written to reflect what another thought it should. I am always searching for texts based on archaeological findings and would love to be able to read these ancient texts written in their original language. Being raised southern Baptist, I was blessed with a father who, while true to his faith, allowed me to explore and ask questions. Those questions have led me to find books such as this. Thank you!

Hi there I like your post “The Betrayal” so well that I like to ask you whether I should translate into German and linking back. Answer welcome. Greetings Kroatien

Dear Gears:
I read The Betrayal with much absorption and great interest as it supports beliefs I have had for many, many years. I am what could possibly be referred to as a lifetime Comparative Religionist. I have explored and studied every religion known to mankind (or at least the ones I could find out about, with the exception of Appalachian Snake-Handlers — NOT my thing!). Having at one time been with the Jehovahs Witnesses (generally a crock, but they DID have some valuable insights into what went on at the council of Nicea The Nicene Council, and how what we (most Christians) believe to be the inspired and inerrant word of God was drastically changed, books thrown out, other rewritten or changed a great deal to support the agenda of Emperor Constantine and a lot of “men of God” (???) to support their own human agendas, hidden and known. I have been searching for more information, and I did,( and I do apologize for this), photocopy your bibliography for sources, as finding out information as to what was forbidden, banned, burned, etc. and where I can find what is left of the TRUTH, not the Churches’ version(s) of the truth. I have had some fantastic (for me) discussion, especially with the evangelistic, “born again” types about how the Bible has not been changed a “tittle or a jot” as one person put it, by getting out my various different Bibles, all different versions, except a Mormon one, but they don’t use the Bible anyway, they may suck you in with a free Bible, but it’s the book of Mormon from then on, and I lost (stupidly threw away) my copy of the Jehovah’s Witness version. But just reading one verse from all of those different Bibles blew away the evangelist. I don’t really want to destroy anyone’s belief in God or Christ, per se, I believe myself, but I’m not sure which of my beliefs are based on Truth, and which are based on indoctrination. That is what I consider my job in life, is to point out to people to “test it out” or do a “reality check”, each Bible is published by someone or group with an agenda, it was written by Human beings whose brains, despite how faithful and true they may be, are flawed and colored by their own “thing.” So even if we could believe that the Bible was done by “automatic writing” it still had to be filtered through many different men’s brains (I am assuming that the books in the accepted versions of the bible are all written, automatically inspired or not, by men and not women. It wouldn’t matter anyway, women’s brains are operating under the same restrictions as mentioned above about men’s brains. If anyone has info on what actually happened at the Nicene Council, and where I can find what was thrown out or banned, I would appreciate knowing. At last a book that deals with the possibility that what we THINK is the absolute TRUTH AND WORD OF GOD, may merely be some group of men’s, with power and control of multitudes in mind, decisions to CALL whatever the TRUTH, even if it had no basis in reality. Thanks again for a wonderful read and for the gift (again, I apologize for the copying without written permission) of the bibliography for further study. I loved it and have recommended it to both open-minded, and some very fundamentally closed minded people to read, knowing it will at least give them pause. If you publish other books like that I will be a faithful buyer and reader. Again, I apologize, but as I am into geneology, but not really into ancient history of Indians and early American archeology, I haven’t been a reader of your other books, which I know must be very well written, just not down my alley, so to speak. Thank you again, Mr. & Mrs. Gear, for a great read!