The Humanist Hub I just read “The Greatest Lie Ever Told” by historian W H Uffington. Caesar’s Messiah proved there is no Jesus. But, this book proves their is no god. It’s a historic scandal. Here are some interesting points he made: According to Genesis 24, Abraham lived in Nahor, not Ur of the Chaldees […]
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The Greatest Lie ever Told – Douglas Michael King
Belief in supernatural beings is totally natural – and false – Stephen Law
Stephen Law is a philosopher, author and head of Centre for Inquiry UK. He researches primarily in the philosophy of religion. His books include The Philosophy Gym: 25 Short Adventures in Thinking (2003) and (for children) The Complete Philosophy Files (2011). Is it time to jettison all beliefs in supernatural beings? Craig Cloutier/Flickr Human beings are remarkably prone to supernatural beliefs […]
Judaism – Genesis Myths: Adam and Eve, Eden, Cain and Abel, The Flood, The Tower of Babel – Mike Magee 5*
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 […]
How Persia Created Judaism: Persian and Jewish Religion – Dr Mike D. Magee
The Universal God The Influence of Exile Nehemiah and Ezra Judaism and Zoroastrianism Ahuramazda and Yehouah Eschatology Holy Spirits and Saviours Purity A Law for the Priests The traditional view is that Cyrus and successive Persian kings of the sixth and fifth centuries BC were being religiously liberal in allowing the Jews to reconstruct their […]
Men. Woman and Gods – Helen H. Gardener (Intro by Robert G. Ingersoll) pdf
The Bible its Own Refutation – Charles G. Olmsted – pdf
The Bible is Fiction: A Collection Of Evidence – Daniel Miessler
☞ Every Sunday I put out a curated list of the week’s most interesting stories in infosec, technology, and humans. You can subscribe to it here. Similarities to Other Stories Unavoidable Contradictions The Logical Explanation SIMILARITIES TO OTHER STORIES The similarities between the stories and characters in the Bible and those from previous mythologies […]
The Abraham Myth – Peter J. Leithart
Evangelicals are debating the historicity of Adam, but they are too timid. It is time to reject fundamentalist distortions of the Abrahamic narrative just as decisively as we have abandoned literalistic readings of Genesis 1–3. Clinging to discredited biblical accounts of Abraham as if these events actually happened makes us look like Neanderthals, undermines the […]