Imagine a historian 500 years from now constructs the following proof. “The culture of 1960’s widely accepted homosexual activities. Evidence can be found in the theme song of a popular cartoon of the era, ‘The Flintstones’. This is a cartoon involving the implied homosexual activities between the two male lead characters Barney and Fred with […]
Archives for July 2017
Why the Bible is False – Textuality
The Bible is false because it asserts the occurrence of events that could not have occurred, events that were – and are – impossible. Shakespeare’s Hamlet tells us the title character was visited by the ghost of his father. Do we believe this? Tolkien’s The Hobbit is set in a time between the dawn of fairies and the dominion […]
The Kuzari Proof, The Exodus And Passover – FailedMessiah.com
I find articles like this extremely disturbing – how the Western world has been controlled by biblical myths, frankly is beyond comprehension. Red Johnson. Many of us are familiar with the so-called Kuzari proof, the idea that, because millions of Jews participated in the Exodus from Egypt and saw the Revelation from Mount Sinai with […]
Constellation Legends – Norm McCarter pdf
Making the Climate a Part of the Human World – Simon D. Donner pdf*
A Detailed History of the name “Jehovah” – Jeroen Ashton
In 1278 a spanish monk, Raymundo Martini, wrote the latin work PUGIO FIDEI (Dagger of faith). In it he used the name of God, spelling it Yohoua. Later printings of this work, dated some centuries later, used the spelling JEHOVA. Soon after, in 1303, Porchetus de Salvaticis completed a work entitled VICTORIA PORCHETI AVERSUS […]
Does God exist or is God imaginary?- Steve Myers
In The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins argues that God (probably) does not exist, and he associates belief in God with the childhood practice of having an “imaginary friend” (Dawkins 2006, p. 88). He advocates, as an alternative to belief in God, using science and evidence to develop useful models that replicate how the world works. Although his argument […]
Foundations of Faith – Robert Ingersoll (Link to Website)
Is there a sensible man in the world who believes that David collected seven thousand million dollars worth of gold or silver? There is hardly five thousand million dollars of gold now used as money in the whole world. Think of the millions taken from the mines of California, Australia and Africa during the present […]
Subject Index (Link to Webpage)
Historical Documents – Author Index The Historical Library contains writings written before 1970, only. For material written during or after 1970, please refer to the Modern Documents section of the Secular Web Library. This section is provided for those doing research into the history of nontheism. It is not intended to be–and should not be used as–a source of […]
The Rationalist’s Manual – M. D. Aletheia (Link to Webpage)
And they did well to strike at the power of the priest. For centuries the human mind has been fettered by the priestly chain. The priest claimed the whole life. Scarcely had a child entered the world when he lost his freedom in the rite of baptism; his will was made captive by the representative […]