History is the lies upon which eminent men agree”, and history as it relates to religion is a Pious Fraud – a lie, or lies, which are perpetrated for the sake of religion, or “under the appearance of religion,” or for a good objective, where “the ends justifies the means.” But unlike other lies, which […]
Original Sin
The Tree of Life – Ernest Crawley
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Judaism – Genesis Myths: Adam and Eve, Eden, Cain and Abel, The Flood, The Tower of Babel – Dr M D Magee
Abstract The tree of life in the Jewish scriptures was not original. A stylized tree was often the center of cultic scenes, with animals such as Ibex feeding on it, or people flanking it. A cylinder seal in the British Museum has a man and a woman flanking a tree, hands stretched toward it. Behind […]
Absurdities of the Bible – Dr M D Magee
It would take a long time to go through all the absurdities of the bible, absurdities which are used to indoctrinate children still. Here are a few. Of course, it all began with Adam and Eve who led the human race into sin! When God made woman in the Yahwistic creation story, he took one […]
Bible Contradictions – The Thinking Atheist
This page addresses issues, contradictions and false logic with three of the most popular bible stories (Creation, Noah’s Ark and the Nativity Story), followed by a list of other scriptural accounts that conflict with each other. Browse the points below and ask yourself if the bible is truly a perfect, accurate, divinely-inspired document for living. […]
A History of God – Karen Armstrong pdf
An Instruction, a Sin and the Consequence
Many creation myths consisted of at least one of three elements; an order or instruction from the creator to the creations, a sin and a consequence which must be faced. The consequence is often what causes pain, hunger, disease and all the other evils that plaque the earth. In the Greek myth, when Pandora was […]
Original Sin the Great Myth
Orthodox Christianity teaches that all human beings are born in the state of sin resulting from the fall of man. The Biblical basis for this is the Genesis’ tale of Adam and Eve and Paul’s teaching that “through one man (Adam) sin entered the world” (Romans 5:12). This implied that because of the trespass […]
The Myths of Christianity – 2 The Myth of Original Sin
Richard Holloway One Sunday night when I was a young priest I came home from evensong, had my supper and was reading the newspaper when the phone rang. It was a ward sister at a local hospital, asking if I would go to the hospital immediately, because parishioners of mine were in need of pastoral […]
The Original Sin – A Myth Whose Time is Up
Julian Rose, Contributor Of all the deceptions pulled on humanity over the ages, The Original Sin is probably the most devastating. Yet hugely successful from the perspective of the perpetrators. Almost everywhere the doctrine of Christianity forged its zealous mission to convert the masses, so the Original Sin accompanied it. Imposing the rationale of guilt […]