Month: July 2016
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“Easter Is Evil and Other Fables” by JP Holding – book review
File Size: 359 KB Print Length: 63 pages Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc. ASIN: B00GZ6GA84 Easter Is Evil and Other Fables Having previously reviewed J.P. Holding’s Christmas book, seeBook review: “Christmas is Pagan and Other Myths” by J. P. Holding, I was pleased to see what he had in store this time (see end…
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John N. Oswalt's “The Bible Among the Myths”
The Bible Among the Myths is a book by John N. Oswalt. Referencing this book provides an opportunity to link to various posts about comparisons between Jesus and various characters: Muhammad and Jesus, part 1 of 10 Jesus & Buddha (this was a corroboration piece between this author and the one introduced below) The following…
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Occupy the Vatican
Christianity ————- Atheism ————- World Religions and Cults ————- Science ————- Movies & TV Shows ————- Fringe-ology (Transhumanism, Aliens/UFOs, Occult, Conspiracies) ————- Misc. and Resources (Nazis, Communism, Crusades, Morality / Ethics, Abortion, Rape, Homosexuality / Trans, Audio, Books, Debates, Videos, etc.) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Sam Harris – Book Reviews
(and review of his logic, or lack thereof, etc.) Transcript of an interview with Sam Harris The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason Sam Harris’ Big Lie Atheists Split on How to Not Believe True Unbelievers: A Sectarian Split Among…
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“The Lost Tomb of Jesus”, part 3 of 10
Let the Debate Begin_Without Us: James Cameron stated, “We’ve done our homework; we’ve made the case; and now it’s time for the debate to begin.”1 However, the producer and director also take a Dan Brownesque retreat from the debate as they state: James Cameron, “I’m not a theologist [sic.]. I’m not an archaeologist. I’m a…
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Anders Behring Breivik, Richard Dawkins and Timothy McVeigh
Christianity ————- Atheism ————- World Religions and Cults ————- Science ————- Movies & TV Shows ————- Fringe-ology (Transhumanism, Aliens/UFOs, Occult, Conspiracies) ————- Misc. and Resources (Nazis, Communism, Crusades, Morality / Ethics, Abortion, Rape, Homosexuality / Trans, Audio, Books, Debates, Videos, etc.) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Atheism and Creation Ministries International, part 1
Having written a little essay about atheism offsite at www.creation.com/atheism I have encountered certain comments that have been made about it and I thought that it may be interesting to consider, and respond, to them. Let us consider comments posted to Apologetics 315, comments posted to RichardDawkins.net’s forum (who were kind enough to besmirch it),…
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Francis Collins, Barack Obama and the Envious
By now you may have been made aware that Barack Obama has nominated Francis Collins for the position of director of the National Institutes of Health. A search for “Francis Collins” in Google News returned 270 hits for the past week alone. It is fascinating to read some of the news related articles which cannot…
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Jewish / Judaism : When Was the Messiah Expected?, part 5 of 7
Encyclopedia Judaica 6:861 & 10:390, “The Bible has no word for the abstract idea of eschatology. It does however, have a term-‘aharit ha-yamim-that often has eschatological connotations, at least in the broad sense mentioned above, it means literally ‘the end of the days’ i.e., ‘the end of time.’_.Towards the end of the second Temple period,…
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Jewish / Judaism : Jewish View of Jesus
There certainly is not one single Jewish view of Jesus. Rather, there are various: from the respectful and empathetic to the malicious and condemnatory. In this essay we simply provide a sampling a various opinions. In typical Jewish humor Franz Rosenzweig and David Flusser wrote, Whether Jesus was the Messiah will be shown when the…