In Plain Sight with Jeremy from Kentucky, March 18, 2026 Hour 1

“He may never even have heard of Marcion, Manichaeus, and the leaders of quite a few other early Christian sects that had numerous adherents and flourishing congregations in many parts of the Roman Empire until the gang called The Fathers of the Church got control of the government and could use its military power to suppress competition….

“It was characteristic of those early sects that they, like all men of sound judgement and unperverted instincts, were revolted by the ‘Old Testament’ and its record of foul crimes perpetrated by Yahweh on behalf of his Chosen People of brigands and marauders. They accordingly concluded, as did Marcion, that Yahweh was an inferior and renegade god, a mere demiurge, or forthrightly identified the Jews’ god with Satan, the supreme god of pure evil. They, however, had their own ‘New Testaments’ and believed Jesus to be an emanation of a far different and superior god, a good and righteous god, who would eventually destroy the author of evil and all his army of superhuman and human devils.” (Revilo P. Oliver; “A BIBLE STUDENT”; Liberty Bell, Dec. 1984)