Historical pagan practices have also included ritual animal sacrifice and utilized animal parts within ritual and magic. Traditional religions such as Christianity inherited their attitude towards blood and animal sacrifice from pagan origins, such as the way in which the Abel and Cain story was copied from the Sumerian story of Enkimdu and Damuzi6. Neo-paganism, […]
Old Testament
The Invention of the Jewish People – Shlomo Sand – pdf
Genesis of Everything – J Dickson – pdf
The Greatest Lie ever Told – Douglas Michael King
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 […]
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 […]