I looked up Pyramidology and “red flags” went up when I saw Charles Taze Russell’s name involved (Jehovah Witness). I’ll just leave it at that.

In answer to your question, I don’t think that there were any suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of Jim Rutherford, as Britons are almost oblivious of this British Israelism nonsense. I do know that it is very widely held in America, and was myself almost hooked by Herbert W. Armstrong and his Worldwide Church of God when a young Christian! I used to listen to his broadcasts (from Pasadena, Cal. then) on Radio Luxembourg in the evening. (British readers will know what I am referring to there – it was a commercial station which we used to tune into to listen to the latest pop records, when the BBC aired little such music. The religiots, and Football Pools “wizards” etc, supported the station by buying time for their programmes or advertising slots. Billy Graham’s Hour of Decision was broadcast every Friday evening, and although I am now an atheist, I still consider remember many of his sermons, and honestly consider him to be the best public speaker I have ever heard, without a shadow of a doubt.) I even signed up to Armstrong’s Plain Truth magazine before I was shown the error of my ways. (I made the unforgiveable mistake of stating publicly what a great Bible teacher he was!) It wouldn’t surprise you at all to know that almost all the people who went on Jim Rutherford’s escorted trips to Egypt were Americans, and I assume that THEY were the buyers of the books which quite literally filled his home, as well. What might surprise you, though, is the fact that so many English aristocrats and royals also believed this tosh. It is said that King George VI was a believer, and that wouldn’t surprise me one little bit. Don’t forget that, even when I was a young man, they kept banging on about how the War was as good as lost before the Dunkirk evacuation, but that a National Day of Prayer, and the subsequent divine intervention ,turned the tide! Even our present Queen seems to think that there is something “mystical” about her anointing at Westminster in 1953, and Prince Charles, of course, has the most weird “New Age” ideas. (None of the royal family appear terribly “bright” either, I must add!) It wouldn’t come as a shock to me to learn that they really do believe that there is an unbroken line from the Queen back to King David, daft as that idea seems to us, and that all those promises to Abraham are to be fulfilled through the British people and ruling family!!

Lately, I have been looking into the subject a little deeper than before. I have been reading Arthur Koestler’s wonderful “The Thirteenth Tribe” and the remarkable Khazar Empire that somehow avoided conversion to Christianity and Islam. Only 70 something pages deep so far.

I’m curious, was foul play suspected in the tragic death you mentioned?

The racist Christian Identity movement is involved in this stuff as well. This religion sure would fit nicely (convienient) with some establishment political ideology it seems. I hope that someone might add something to our mini discussion here?

“If I’m right and our whole conception of prehistory is wrong…”

As I said before – spot the deliberate mistake!!

“When, in early 1918, we were hard pressed by Germany and almost on our beam ends, the nation at last fell on its knees, the tide turned, and from that day victory was assured: so will it be in the war of Armageddon.”

Better start praying, brethren!