HAS ANYONE EVER TOLD YOU

That Your Favorite Religious Stories

Don't Fit With the Known Facts?

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• INTRODUCTION.
  
  What influence does religion have on world events and human freedom? When people first crawled out of caves and started to think, they had no other guidelines for thinking than the natural environment around them. Later thinkers thought about thinking itself, and developed complex mental tools to plot the course of mental evolution. Thousands of years before modern science, mental insights formed the basis for future social development. Leaders presented these insights to their followers as REVELATIONS which formed the basis for the first religious claims. These original claims were molded into DOGMA by later generations. Modern social, political, and government institutions are all based on these early ideas. Any cracks, flaws, or discrepancies have been resolved by intimidation and force to silence any whistle blowers who questioned the "rightness" of the existing views of the universe. The following links show some of the efforts by those whistle blowers.
  
  
• OVERVIEW REMARKS
  
  USA "Founding Fathers"...
  ... Quotes ...
  
  Luther Burbank (famous plant scientist) ...
  ... "Why I Am An Infidel"
  
  "Ibn Warraq" (pseudonym) ...
  ... "Why I Am Not A Muslim"
  Reviewed by Dr. Ali Sina
  
  ... "Why I Left Islam"
  by converts and others
  
  David Dvorkin ...
  ... "Why I Am Not A Jew"
  
  Larry Reyka ...
  ... "Why I Am Not A Unitarian ..."
  
  Clarence Darrow ...
  ... "The Myth of the Soul"
  
  Bertrand Russell ...
  ... "Why I am Not a Christian"
  ... "Has Religion Made Useful Contributions ..."
  ... "The Theologian's Nightmare"
  
  Mark Twain ...
  ... "Bible Teaching & Religious Practice"
  ... "Letters From The Earth"
  ... "Christian Science" (book)
  
  Richard Andrews ...
  ... book review
  ... "Vardis Fisher - An American Atheist Author"
  ... (PhD. Author of many books. Father was Mormon.)
  
  
• CONTRADICTIONS IN THE BIBLE
  
  Searchable Bible reference ...
  ... "Skeptic's Annotated Bible"
  
  Jim Merritt ...
  ... "A List of Biblical Contradictions"
  
  Chad Docterman ...
  ... analysis of the self-contradictions in
  ... "Why the Christian God is Impossible"
  
  
• CONTRADICTIONS IN THE KORAN (QURAN)
  
  Searchable Quran reference ...
  ... "Skeptic's Annotated Quran"
  
  
• CONTRADICTIONS IN THE BOOK OF MORMON
  
  Searchable Book of Mormon reference ...
  ... "Skeptic's Annotated Book of Mormon"
  
  
• ASTRONOMY
  
  Woolsey Teller ...
  ... "What made the stars?"
  
  
• HYPOCRISY
  
  George Smith ...
  ... "Blight of gullibility"
  
  Farrell Till ...
  ... "Kill me instead"
  
  Christopher Hitchens ...
  ... "The Missionary Position" (of Mother Theresa)
  ... "Mommy Dearest"
  
  Excommunicated ...
  ... Voices of former Mormons
  
  
• ABOUT THAT FLOOD
  
  Flood Geology FAQs
  Parallels between flood myths
  Morgana's Observatory: Flood Myths
  
  
• JESUS
  
  The Truth About Jesus
  Origins of the myth
  "Did Jesus Really Live?"
  Censorship of pagan crucifixion myths
  
  
• SATAN, THE DEVIL, LUCIFER
  
  The Biblical Devil
  abuses tiny children...
  
  

  * References in the Old Testament:
  
  

  Genesis 3:4, 5, 22;

  Job 1:6;

  Leviticus 17:7;

  Zechariah 3:1;

  1Chronicles 21:1;

  2Chronicles 11:15;

  2Samuel 24:1;

  
  

  * References in the New Testament:
  
  

  James 4:7;

  John 6:70, 8:44;

  Jude 9;

  Luke 4:2, 4:35-36, 10:18, 22:31;

  Matthew 25:41;

  Revelation 20:2, 20:10;

  1Timothy 1:20.

  
  
• PURGATORY
  
  Purgatory: fact or fantasy?
  
  
• CREATIONISM
  
  The "Intelligent Design" ploy
  
  
• WHY PEOPLE BELIEVE WITHOUT EVIDENCE
  
  Richard Dawkins ...
  ... "Viruses of the Mind"
  
  
• PASCAL'S WAGER (Gambling on God)
  
  Who was Blaise Pascal?
  On Rescher On Pascal's Wager
  Not a Very Good Bet
  
  
• RELIGION AND SCIENCE COMPARISONS
  
  Richard Dawkins ...
  ... "Is Science A Religion?"
  
  False questions
  Why not freedom from fear?
  
  
• RELIGION IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS
  
  ACLU challenges "intelligent design"
  Why creation "science" in schools?
  
  
• OLD TESTAMENT HISTORICAL FACTS
  
  Illicit Sex Praised in the Bible
  
  Deconstructing the walls of Jericho / By Ze'ev Herzog
  (Published in Israel 10/29/99. Heroic History Fabricated)
  
  
• BIGOTRY
  
  Christian Identity Movement
  
  Pat Robertson calls all other faiths "Demons"
  
  
• JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES
  
  Watchers of the Jehovah's Witnesses
  
  
• SCIENTOLOGY
  
  The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power
  
  
• LINKS TO OTHER PROBING IDEAS
  
  Zombies Night Out
  (Voluntary Slavery By Indoctrination)
  
  Will America Follow The Path Of Iran And Afghanistan?
  (Do women like to wear veils?)