Hekataios Amerikos

Brought up in rural America, the author has earned four advanced degrees, mainly in religious, historical and philosophical studies. These include a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in religious studies, double-minoring in philosophy and history; a Master of Science in education; a Master of Theological Studies, and a Master of Divinity. His focus is on the ancient religions of the Euro-Mediterranean world as well as Christianity itself. The author has also served in the US Army as a member of the Chaplain corps and has been deployed to war zones in the Middle East twice.

As an undergraduate in college the author was struck by the fact that he was being taught things about religion that he had never heard of before even though he had attended church and studied his Bible from the time he was able to read. He gradually began to realize that the material that was being taught was, in a way, seen as proprietary to the ministerial profession and that ministerial students would graduate from college with absolutely no desire to share much, if any, of it with the folk. He came to realize that religious authorities generally preferred to keep the folk as ignorant of true religious history as possible so that they could continue to have a monopoly on such knowledge, dispensing it only as they saw fit. Thus, nothing had really changed in that regard since the days of Jesus himself. The author's studies since that time have only tended to reinforce this original observation.

The investigation that went into the author's two books, "Apocalypse and Armageddon" and "Killing Roma" did not take place overnight and has not been rushed by some university system that requires professors to pump out books in quick succession in order to maintain their status. There is no way that these works could have been completed and presented to the folk in, say, sixty to ninety days or even a year.

There are all sorts of books out there, even at this very moment in time, purporting to tell the truth of Jesus and/or of Christianity. And all of these books come from differing viewpoints and serve up different supposed facts. These books are, in the main, quite popular, judging

from sales figures. But people still somehow seem to realize that something is missing from the earliest history of Christianity, yet they don’t know what it is and their efforts to discover it are often like trying to grasp air. So they latch onto one or another of these histories and pseudo-histories in an effort to obtain the knowledge that they can’t seem to obtain from just reading the Bible or attending Sunday School classes. After many years of research, the author has concluded that even the best histories of earliest Christianity leave out some important points. Usually this is simply a sin of omission rather than being deliberate. After all, no one can know everything about that period in time. So people, generally, are still left wanting. These books are meant to fill that gap with real factual evidence and clear details. The simple fact of the matter is that the author wants everyone to know the actual history.