Atrocities (only a few) Back To Table Of Contents Babylon is fallen David slaughters them Decapitate them! Gideon slaughters God buries them alive God kills the firstborns! God sends pestilence God slaughters blacks God’s threat to kill Godly head wounds Godly mass murder Kill all unbelievers Kill man, woman, infant King David’s holocaust Moses’ mass […]
Religious Lies
Egypt knew no Pharaohs nor any Israelites – Dr. Ashraf Ezzat*
Many are the stories that were told in the Hebrew Bible, but the one story that is yet to be told is the story of the Hebrew Bible itself. The relationship with gods/god has always been one of man’s oldest preoccupations, and still is till this very day. While it’s fair to assume that Modern […]
Investigating the Pre-Biblical origins of the Holy Bible via Archaeology*
Your Host: Walter Reinhold Warttig Mattfeld y de la Torre, M.A. Ed. e-mail contact “If you would subject all things to yourself, subject yourself to reason.” –Seneca “Only knowledge, then, is power and freedom; and the only permanent happiness is the pursuit of knowledge and the joy of understanding.” –Will Durant (1885-1981) “Happy the man who has […]
The Outsider Test for Faith And How to Take It – Chris Hallquist
The Catholic Church’s contemptuous attitude towards its “flock” » What follows is an excerpt from the draft book chapter I posted yesterday In chapter 1, I wrote: “If a child, say one who’d just watched Disney’s Hercules, asked me if the Greek gods are real, I’d say ‘no’ rather than hedge my bets by saying […]
Recovery from Harmful Religion – Marlene Winell, Ph.D.*
Part 1: RTS – It’s Time To Recognize It I’m really struggling and am desperate never to go back to the religion I was raised in, but I no longer want to live in fear or depression. It seems that I am walking through the jungle alone with my machete; no one to share […]
Religious Trauma Syndrome – Marlene Winell*
“Religious Trauma Syndrome is the condition experienced by people who are struggling with leaving an authoritarian, dogmatic religion and coping with the damage of indoctrination. They may be going through the shattering of a personally meaningful faith and/or breaking away from a controlling community and lifestyle. RTS is a function of both the chronic abuses […]
6 Ways Religion Does More Bad Than Good – Valerie Tarico
What if harming society is part of religion’s survival strategy? By / AlterNet Most British people think religion causes more harm than good according to a survey commissioned by the Huffington Post. Surprisingly, even among those who describe themselves as “very religious” 20 percent say that religion is harmful to society. For that we can […]
The Gilmesh Epic and Old Testament Parallels – Alexander Heidel – pdf
Events recorded in the Pentateuch: True or False
http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_arhs.htm Considering the Pentateuch, the first five books of the Hebrew Scriptures (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy) the most extreme views are: The Pentateuch Common conservative religious beliefs Common beliefs of secular archaeologists & religious liberals Accuracy Totally accurate, inerrant, & infallible. Contains no mistakes. Inspired by God. Mixture of ancient myths, some valid history, […]
God’s 12 Biggest Dick Moves in the Old Testament – Rob Bricken
Before Jesus arrived and his divine father chilled out, the Old Testament God was, ironically, kind of a hellraiser. He was not a nice guy. He reallyliked killing people. And he may have actually been insane, if his willingness to randomly murder devout worshippers like Moses was any indication. Here are the 12 craziest, […]