Category: Religion
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Quenching God’s Thirst for Blood
1) Capital Punishment Crimes: Kill People Who Don’t Listen to Priests As for anyone who presumes to disobey the priest appointed to minister there to the Lord your God, or the judge, that person shall die. So you shall purge the evil from Israel. (Deuteronomy 17:12) Kill Witches You shall not permit a female sorcerer […]
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The Athletes of God
Before the conversion of Constantine, martyrs and confessors (those who professed their Christian faith to Roman officials in the expectation of martyrdom) were Christianity’s heroes and spiritual elite. Martyrdom and openly professing one’s faith before Roman officials were supremely meritorious actions. They were the equivalent of a second baptism, fully atoning for a person’s past […]
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Jesus Outside the Bible: Part 3 – Pliny, Tacitus and Suetonius
There are three Greco-Roman pagan passages extremely important to the defenders of the Christian myth. They are the works of three major non-Christian writers of the late 1st and early 2nd centuries – Tacitus, Suetonius, and Pliny the Younger. Let’s closely examine these passages and see why they cannot serve us as justification for reliable […]
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Jesus Outside the Bible: Part 2 – Flavius Josephus
When addressing the historical nature of Jesus Christ, one issue repeatedly raised is the purported “evidence” of his existence to be found in the writings of Flavius Josephus, the famed Jewish general and historian who lived from about 37 to 100 CE. In Josephus’s Antiquities of the Jews appears the notorious passage regarding Christ called […]
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Jesus Outside the Bible: Part 1 – Historical Silence
“Apart from the New Testament writings and later writings dependent on these, our sources of information about the life and teaching of Jesus are scanty and problematic” – F.F. Bruce, New Testament History. “The only definite account of his life and teachings is contained in the four Gospels for the New Testament, Matthew, Mark, Luke […]
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The Parallel Sayings of Four Mystical Traditions
Let’s compare religious teachings for a quick second, shall we? Specifically, let’s compare the teachings of four of our greatest and most influential mystical teachers. Now, there isn’t much evidence for the historical existence of any of these individuals and even worse, none of them ever wrote a word on their philosophy. Nonetheless, I feel […]
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The Jesus Myth and Christmas Politics
The more you begin to investigate, what we think we understand, where we came from, what we think we’re doing, the more you begin to see that things are not as they appear. I want to be clear: We’ve been lied to by our religious and political institutions for hundreds of years. I don’t know […]
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The “Christian Nation” Myth and The Treaty of Tripoli
It’s December and the Abrahamic religions are running wild, as they like to do this time of year. Christians are a particular loud bunch. Today’s powerful Christian organizations and promoters are working harder than ever to spread historical myths about early America. They are attempting to convince us to return to the Christianity of the […]