ON RELIGION: CATEGORIES OF ARTICLES
HEADINGS
1. APOCRYPHA; 2. ANALYSIS OLD TESTAMENT; 3. ANALYSIS NEW TESTAMENT 4. ANALYSIS OF APOCRYPHA & PSEUDEPIGRAPHA; 5.
PHILOSOPHICAL/ANALYTIC; 6. LITERARY; 7. SCIENTIFIC; 8. HISTORICAL/ARCHAEOLOGICAL; 9. HISTORICAL CHURCH
DOCUMENTS; 10.
BIOGRAPHICAL; 11.
NEWS ARTICLES, ATROCITIES, HISTORICAL; 12. HUMOR/SATIRE; 13. ON RELIGIONS; 14. ON RELIGIOUS BELIEF; 15. DECEPTIONS; 16. LINKS
COLUMNS #1, #2, #3
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Pseudepigrapha, Christian sources called Apocrypha, Gnostic works, early Kabbalah, and like.
1. APOCRYPHA (the 7 sections below): |
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A GOSPELS |
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The infancy gospel of Thomas—from
Latin text |
20/2 |
C |
404 |
The Infancy gospel of Mathew’s |
20/9 |
NC |
393 |
The gospel of Thomas |
20/4 |
C |
398 |
The gospel of the nativity of Mary |
20/13 |
C |
394 |
Ancient Jewish account of Jesus
Christ |
1/19 |
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The Gospel of Philip |
20/17 |
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B EPISTLES |
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The Death of Pilate |
15/15 |
C |
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Septuagint Bible—account of
its commission |
15/17 |
C |
243 |
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C ACTS |
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The acts of Thomas |
15/16 |
C |
464 |
The acts of Saint Barnabas the Apostle |
20/11 |
NC |
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D CREATION TALES |
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Book of Jubilees, elaboration on
Genesis and Exodus, part 2 |
26/3 |
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10 |
Book of Jubilees: part 1, in the beginning |
26/9 |
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10 |
Adam & Eve: as told by their son Seth |
15/19 |
E |
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Life of Adam and Eve |
26/2 |
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Book of Jubilees—commentary |
26/4 |
CE |
10 |
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E CHRISTIAN OLD & NEW TESTAMENT CHARACTERS |
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Death of Pilate |
15/15 |
C |
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Peter versus Simon the Magician
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15/3
20/3 |
C |
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Peter vs. Simon, cont. |
15/4 |
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The history of Joseph the carpenter |
20/15 |
NC |
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The death of Pilate |
20/1 |
C |
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Testament of the twelve patriarchs—Ebionite |
20/16 |
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Story about our Adam’s apple |
20/6 |
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F MISC, |
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Commentary on Gospel of Thomas &
Nag Hammad library |
20/5 |
C |
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Simon Magnus & other inspired
works |
20/3 |
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Rabbinic writings,
the Talmud, Madrash, Torah, Mishna, Toseffa, |
26/16 |
CE |
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G JEWISH |
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1 Enoch: Apocalypses once canon* |
15/18 |
CE |
485 |
Ancient Hebrew (Talmud) Account
of Christ—McKinsey |
24/4 |
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Apocalypses of Moses |
26/8 |
C |
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Isaiah’s martyrdom |
26/10 |
C |
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Testament of Abraham |
26/12 |
C |
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Life of Adam &
Eve |
26/2 |
CE |
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Book of Jubilees: part 1, in the beginning |
26/9 |
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10 |
Book of Jubilees: Elaboration on Genesis and Exodus, Part 2 |
26/3 |
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Sibylline Oracles |
26/14 |
C |
501 |
Sibylline Oracles—appendix
with early Christian commentary |
26/15 |
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554 |
Testament of the 12
Patriarchs |
26/17 |
CE |
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The story of Anikar |
26/19 |
CE |
183 |
Babylonian Talmud’s
account of the roman destruction of Jerusalem |
26/18 |
C |
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The book of Jasher,
ch 1-7 on Adam and family |
26/11 |
C |
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Book of Jasher, ch
69-79, on Moses |
26/13 |
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Apocalysis of Moses |
26/8 |
C |
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Book of giants |
26/7 |
C |
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Book of Jannes and
Jambres |
26/5 |
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Septuagint bible, an
account of its commission |
15/17 |
C |
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See also “D”
(creation tales) above |
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* The Book of the Secrets of Enoch is a creation tale, found at p.3 in Barnstone
2. ANALYSIS OF OLD TESTAMENT |
#1 |
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Old
Testament uninspired, the Pentateuch—JK |
8/11 |
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Hebrew mythology—JK |
8/10 |
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Genesis: when the sons of god mated
with the daughters of man--JK |
8/12 |
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Sons of god & daughters of men,
two scholars on |
8/16 |
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Exodus and archaeology |
1/17 |
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101 Contradictions of the Old Testament |
24/8 |
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Septuagint Bible—transmission
of the Old Testament |
26/7 |
CE |
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Biblical dates for creation |
8/15 |
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Genesis & Babylonian creation
myths |
8/14 |
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The God of the Hebrews |
107/2 |
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3.
ANALYSIS NEW TESTAMENT |
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History of Christ—JK |
1/ 2 |
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Shorter look at the question of
the historical Christ—JK |
1/6 |
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Introduction to the Jesus legend—JK |
16/7 |
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In the gospels Jesus was mortal—JK |
16/8 |
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Mark describes Jesus’ gay
affair—JK & Prof Morton Smith |
16/5 |
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Source of the Jesus legend—JK |
16/4 |
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Catholic theologians skeptical about
the historical Christ |
16/11 |
C |
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Published commentary on the previous
article |
16/26 |
C |
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Fictional Christ—McKinsey |
16/6 |
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New Testament studies—Professor
Wells |
16/23 |
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Earliest Christianity--G.A. Wells,
Prof. |
16/20 |
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No historical Jesus, response to
a critic by Prof. Wells |
16/25 |
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Who was Jesus by Prof. Wells |
16/27 |
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Old Testament messiah prophecies
and the gospels |
16/21 |
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Balanced New Testament analysis |
16/14 |
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The historical reference to Jesus: a scholarly analysis |
16/13 |
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Textual criticisms of the New Testament—Joseph
Lewis |
16/17 |
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Textual problems of the New Testament |
16/10 |
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Nasty Jesus and stupid advise |
16/12 |
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New Testament: Sources, transmission, variations & modifications |
16/16 |
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Contradictions: New & Old Testament |
16/19 |
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Biblical canon: historical analysis thereof |
16/18 |
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James burial hoax—JK |
16/9 |
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What is wrong with the New Testament
tales—Joseph Lewis |
20/8 |
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62 contradictions Old & New
Testaments |
24/7 |
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194 contradictions New Testament |
24/6 |
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Did Jesus exist—walker |
16/28 |
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The Jesus puzzle—Doherty |
16/29 |
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The Jesus puzzle—Doherty,
continued |
16/30 |
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Marijuana and the Bible, Zion Coptic
Church |
23/9 |
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Q a product if Christian fantasy |
23/11 |
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Contradictions in the New Testament |
23/2 |
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Sermon on the Mount—contradictions |
22/10 |
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4.
ANALYSIS OF APOCRYPHA & PSEUDEPIGRAPHA |
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Book of Jubilee—commentary |
26/4 |
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Rabbinic writings, the Talmud, Madrash,
Torah, Mishna, Toseffa, Haggada |
16/16 |
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Most of the apocrypha
& pseudepigrapha come with commentary |
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5.
PHILOSOPHICAL/ANALYTIC |
#1 |
#2 |
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Why god permits harm—various
explanations—JK |
1/ 4 |
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John Stuart Mill on his father and
religion |
1/8, 3/10 |
B
3/21 |
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Strangeness of religion—JK |
1/13, 4/5 |
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Why reject religion/18--JK |
15/13 |
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Reasons for rejecting religion |
15/6 |
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Why god prefers skeptics—JK |
4/10 |
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John Stuart Mill, on immortality
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6/13 |
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Bertrand Russell, Is there a god |
6/18 |
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Walther Kaufmann, the faith of a
heretic |
6/16 |
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David Hume, the nature of popular
religion |
6/12 |
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David Hume, on miracles |
18/5 |
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Thomas Paine, on the Christian doctrine
of love |
6/11 |
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Bertrand Russell, on Christianity |
6/7 |
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Charles Van Doren, why I am not
a believer |
6/10 |
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Pascal’s wager: JK’s correct solution—JK |
6/6 |
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*Diderot applies the philosopher’s
tool to Christianity |
6/4 |
B
6/5 |
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The soul—Lucretius (from De
Rerum Natura) |
15/14 |
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Reasons for the rejection of religion—JK |
18/2 |
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Logical impossibility of divine
cause—by a philosophy professor |
18/4 |
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The price and practice of symbolic
interpretation of the scriptures—JK |
18/14 |
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Skeptical reasoning on the historical
Christ |
19/5 |
C |
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God & evil, a witty story |
4/8 |
C |
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6.
LITERARY |
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*Twain, Letters from earth |
10/8 |
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*Twain: 5 short humorous blasts at religion |
10/6 |
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*Twain, the damned human race |
10/9 |
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Lucian’s satire on Zeus |
10/5 |
B |
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Lucian, Zeus the pedophile |
10/12 |
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*Browning, The confessional |
10/3 |
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*Diederot, La religieluse (Memoirs
of a nun) |
10/2 |
B
6/5 |
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*Nietzsche, the antichrist |
10/11 |
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*Masters, two poems on religion |
10/13 |
B |
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Shopping for a religion—JK |
10/1 |
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Poem on Christian religion: a rant—JK |
18/19 |
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7. SCIENTIFIC |
#1 |
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Why the physics of everything was not the product of a
designer |
1/10 |
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Vision & the illusion of the ghost in the machine—JK |
9/7 |
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Thought & the illusion of the ghost in the machine—JK |
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Creationists failed example against evolution—Scientific
American |
9/5 |
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Can science explain events in the bible? |
18/9 |
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Creationism, a humorous essay about |
22/6 |
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8.
HISTORICAL/ARCHAEOLOGICAL |
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Egyptian account of the origins of the Hebrews |
1/14 |
C |
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Tacitus, on the origin of the Hebrews |
6/2 8/8 |
C |
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Egyptian account of the leper’s exodus |
8/4 |
C |
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Sargan’s birth legend and Moses |
8/3 |
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Not out of Egypt (Prof. Stiebing) |
8/5 |
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Criticisms of Old Testament history |
8/6 |
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More criticisms of Old Testament history (Prof. Thompson) |
8/7 |
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A review of references to Christ outside the bible |
24/3 |
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Septuagint bible—account of its commission |
15/17 |
CE |
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Rabbinic writings, the Talmud, Madrash, Torah, Mishna,
Tosfta |
26/16 |
CE |
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Babylonian Talmud account of the Roman destruction
of Jerusalem |
26/18 |
C |
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The Samaritan |
8/13 |
CE |
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Exodus and archaeology |
1/17 |
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Genesis & Babylonian creation myths |
8/14 |
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Philistines—a 10 page account by a Christian
archaeologist |
8/2 |
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Babylonian account of the Roman destruction of Jerusalem |
26/18 |
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9. HISTORICAL
CHURCH DOCUMENTS |
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Lactanius: against
Epicurus’ blissful gods |
15/7 |
C, B |
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Hyppolitus: refutation
of all heresies |
20/10 |
C |
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Puritan angry god & evil sermon—Jonathan Edwards |
22/4 |
B |
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Martin Luther, What’s wrong with the Jews |
8/3 |
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10. BIOGRAPHICAL |
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Famous skeptics & atheists |
6/14 |
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Charles Darwin |
6/17 |
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Founding Fathers’ religious beliefs |
6/9 |
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Einstein the agnostic |
6/8 |
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Denis Diederot, his contribution |
6/5 |
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JK’s faith |
15/2 |
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Voltaire: the
incomparable infidel |
37/2 |
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David Hume |
37/3 |
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David Hume: his autobiography & a biography |
37/8 |
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Stephen Jay Gould |
37/6 |
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Lucian: Roman
Satirist |
37/1 |
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Josephus, Historian of the Jews including the period of
Jesus |
37/9 |
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Famous non-theists |
37/10 |
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Charles Darwin, his autobiography, its section on religion |
37/11 |
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11. NEWS ARTICLES, ATROCITIES, HISTORICAL |
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Pedophile catholic
priests; Article on nuns-JK |
15/9, 107/6 |
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Saint Bartholomew Day’s
massacre—JK |
15/11 |
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Hitler the Catholic |
18/15 |
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Martin Luther on the
Jews |
20/14 |
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Founded not a Christian
nation |
22/3 |
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§Founding Fathers’
religious beliefs |
6/9 |
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Holy horror—atrocities
in the name of god. |
1/7 |
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Christian TV propaganda |
18/10 |
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Christian treatment
of women |
15/12 |
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When God passes laws
+ U.S. blue laws |
22/1 |
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Holy horror—atrocities
in the name of god |
107/4 |
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Bloody Christian faith—Thomas
Paine |
107/5 |
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Requiem for Ateqen
Rajari—16-year old publicly hanged |
107/3 |
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Saint Bartholomew’s
Day Massacre |
22/6 |
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12. HUMOR/SATIRE |
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Brotherhood of religions—JK |
1/9 |
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Cartoons (the entire
collection, almost) |
5 |
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More Twain Bible humor |
10/7 |
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Doc Laura Old Testament
morality |
18/3 |
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Old Testament law &
Bush |
25/21 |
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Good and evil, a witty
story |
4/8 |
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Hank-Jehovah parallel
story |
5/8 |
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Creationism, a humorous
essay about |
22/8 |
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13. OTHER RELIGIONS |
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What historians have
deduced about the historical Mohammed |
1/3 |
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The story of Ahikar |
26/19 |
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182 |
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14. ON RELIGIOUS BELIEF |
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Why Christianity succeeded—JK |
15/9 |
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Christian TV propaganda—JK |
18/10 |
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The biblical position
on women—McKinsey |
18/8 |
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Christian treatment
of women—Hypatia Bradlaugh |
18/1 |
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Doc Laura Old Testament
morality |
18/3 |
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Intellectual and emotional
reasons to believe—Michael Shermer |
18/6 |
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Viruses of the mind—Richard
Dawkins |
18/7 |
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Can science explain
events in the bible |
18/9 |
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Religion/Christian
booklist |
18/16 |
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On the dying atheist |
1/11 |
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Hitler the Catholic |
18/13 |
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Logical impossibility
of divine causes |
18/5 |
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The biblical dates
for creation |
8/15 |
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Seventh Day Adventists
believe in young earth |
22/9 |
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When God passes laws |
22/1 |
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Pope says Satan is
unleashing evil energy |
22/8 |
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Catholic business blessing”
the more you give the more you receive |
22/7 |
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Puritan angry god sermon—Jonathan
Edwards |
22/4 |
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Founded not a Christian
nation |
22/3 |
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Pope John Paul, his
perverted policies |
107/4 |
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15. DECEPTIONS |
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The Jesus interpolation
in Joseph |
20/12 |
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Vatican deed, another
forgery |
20/7 |
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16. PILOSOPHICAL |
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Pantheism—Prof.
Beardsley |
109/2 |
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The existence of god—Prof
Beardsley |
109/3 |
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Immortality and the
problem of evil—Prof Beardsley |
109/4 |
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Logical impossibility
of divine causes—prof.. Smith |
109/4 |
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17. LINKS |
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Christian websites
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22/2 |
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Old testament &
other ancient Hebrew texts with links |
26/20 |
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Meritorious links |
101/2 |
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Meritorious quotes
JK’s collection |
101/3 |
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Religious quotes from
the web |
101/4 |
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Religious quotes and
discussion |
101/5 |
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