a whole blog dedicated to debunking geocentrism<\/a>. Do we need one to tackle the Sumerian Hungarian Jesus hypothesis too? <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I give the Jesus mythicists a lot of hassle. But theirs is nowhere near to being the most ludicrous claim about Jesus one can find on the web. All Mesopotamia pointed out an article which mentions a view found among Hungarian nationalists: the Hungarians are in fact Sumerians \u2013 just like Jesus! I recently learned […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[4876,5677,6867,7930,12038],"class_list":["post-23097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mythicism","tag-hungarian","tag-jesus","tag-magyar","tag-nationalists","tag-sumerian"],"yoast_head":"\n
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