Category: Religion
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The Many Councils of Christ: How Christianity was Created in Closed-door Meetings
Christianity was created and defined by men in closed-door meetings. Below is a chronology of some important Councils which gave us the version of Christianity that we know today: Council of Elvira Council of Elvira (304) was the first written mandate requiring priests to be celibate. It also made laws with maintained the separation of Jews and […]
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Why I am Not a Christian: An Examination of the God‐Idea and Christianity – Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell, March 6, 1927 [The lecture that is here presented was delivered at the Battersea Town Hall under the auspices of the South London Branch of the National Secular Society, England.] As your chairman has told you, the subject about which I am going to speak to you tonight is “Why I Am Not […]
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So there’s this man, whose name was Job (God v. Job)
So there’s this man, “whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.” Job is the story of a devout Jew named Job whose faith is tested by Satan. Job challenges God to explain “why the righteous suffer” and God answers: “Who was it that […]
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EL – The Middle Eastern God That Judaism Stole
Did the Jews steal some other civilization’s god and make it their own? YES! In the Canaanite religion, or Levantine religion as a whole, Eli or Il was the supreme god, the father of humankind and all creatures and the husband of the goddess Asherah as recorded in the tablets of Ugarit. [1] El appears […]
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‘In three days, you shall live’ – Gabriel’s Revelation
In July of 2008 a flurry of academic journals and news sources reported a new archaeological artifact that might “shake our basic view of Christianity”—especially about first-century messianic expectations and the resurrection accounts. The find was a large stone tablet on which was written eighty-seven lines of Hebrew text in ink, but much of the […]
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The Virgin Birth of the Egyptian Messiah -Horus & The Pattern for the Christian Nativity Scene
In this set of engravings we have the Annunciation, the Conception, the Birth, and the Adoration as described in the first and second chapter of Luke’s Gospel. These scenes, which were mythical in Egypt, have been copied or reproduced as historical in the Canonical Gospels. In the temple of Amun at the site of Luxor […]
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The Lord’s Prayer Instructions
It’s Christmas and the Christians are praying up storm, as they like to do this time of year. Interestingly enough, most of them have no clue as how to actually pray. Let me explain… Jesus gave his followers very clear instructions on how to pray. This is called the Lord’s prayer and can be found in the […]
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Origins of the “Christmas” Tree
There are many symbols of the season, but the Christmas tree is the most iconic. Most skeptics know that the tradition of taking in a tree for the winter pre-dates Christianity’s arrival in Europe by hundreds of years. Many pre-Christian cultures used to cut boughs of evergreen trees in Winter, move them into the home […]
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The Secrets of Haiti’s Living Dead
In seeking scientific documentation of the existence of zombies, anthropologist Wade Davis found himself looking beyond the stereotype and mysteries of voodoo and directly into a cohesive system of social control in rural Haiti: Five years ago, a man walked into l’Estère, a village in central Haiti, approached a peasant woman named Angelina Narcisse, and […]
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The Importance of Disobeying God
One of my favorites points to bring up with those who defend middle eastern religion and their “God” is that it is actually of vital importance that we disobey “His” commands. Case and point: Take a look at the 10 commandments of the “Lord”. One of the most sacred of commands deals with how to […]