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http://www.christianism.com/
Search Tips This site contains scholarship, blasphemy, heresy, freethought, rationalism, atheism, history, psychology, sociology, theology, anthropology, etc.
Years of research are summarized, via abstracts from scholars.
Subjects and Results:
* Bible (Old Testament. New Testament.) (was) is Fiction ("historical Fiction", etc.). * Jesus (was) is a Fictional character (not "historical"). * Paul (was) is a Fictional character. Etc.
[St. Peter: see 766] see St. Peter, page 766
"Did you go yourself and examine this, or how do you know?" [1].
The following Articles (references) appeared in 17 issues (numbers 17-26, 28-31, 33-34, 36) of The Freethought Exchange, 1995 - 1998.
ARTICLES
1
Bible; Jesus; Paul; Fiction in Antiquity; Forgery; Lies; Etc.
1-16
2
Bible; Jesus; Paul; Chronology; Epigraphy; Glyptography; Numismatics; Propaganda; Heresy; Blasphemy; Persecution and Writing; Book Burning; Fiction in Antiquity; Etc.
17-40
3
Bible; Jesus; Paul; Saint Justin Martyr; Witnesses; Vergil; The Jesus Seminar; Josephus; Aramaic; Presumption; Christian "Eugenics"; Laughter; Etc.
41-104
4
Bible; Jesus; Paul; Tertullian; Marcion; van Manen; Fiction in Antiquity; Etc.
105-151
5
Aramaic; Dead Sea Scrolls; New Testament; Greek influence; Cicero; The Dark Side of Christian History; Myths and Legends of The Ancient Near East; etc.
152-165
6
Venice - Florence - Rome
166-179
7
"The Evolution of Speech, Thought, and Selfless Behavior"; Forgotten Scripts; Hammurapi's Code; "The Common Background of Greek and Hebrew Civilisations"; Biblical Polemics; Nietzsche; "memes"; etc.
180-199
8
"The Twelve Apostles"; Roman and Christian Imperialism; The Hero; "The Hero Pattern and the Life of Jesus"; "Death Sentence on Heretics"; etc.
200-216
9
"Jesus"; Athenagoras; Minucius Felix; Theophilus; Constantine; etc.
217-225
10
The Theodosian Code; Heretics; Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire; The Ecclesiastical Edicts of the Theodosian Code; Roman and Christian Imperialism; Julian; etc.
226-240
11
Arthur Darby Nock; pictographs?cuneiform; Babylonians and Assyrians;A.H. Sayce; Myth and History in Biblical Chronology
241-252
12
More, Homo sapiens?behavior! From Sumer to Rome, The Military Capabilities of Ancient Armies; William Hazlitt; Origin and Evolution of Religion
253-262
13
The Cult of Sol Invictus; The Sun-Gods of Ancient Europe; Christian worship of the Sun; Man and the Sun; Roman festivals; Christmas;Astronomy; Lunar and Solar Positions; Chronology (Calendars); Epiphany and (more) Christmas; Clement of Alexandria; Comments; The Legends of the Saints; The Theodosian Code; Thomas Paine
263-328
14
Sex; Mass Psychology; Religion; Freethinkers (Heretics, etc.); Robert Ingersoll; Wilhelm Reich
329-334
15
The Christ Myth; Evolutional Ethics and Animal Psychology
335-343
16
The Mass Psychology of Fascism; The Papacy and Fascism; Spartacus; Julian the Apostate and the Rise of Christianity; The Rise of the Mediocracy
344-359
17
Fiction as History, Nero to Julian
360-362
18
Christ Christian Christianism Christianity
363-374
19
The Lies and Fallacies of the Encyclopedia [Encyclopaedia] Britannica; The Great EB The Story of the Encyclopaedia Britannica; The Myth of the Britannica
375-389
20
Theology and Feminism; Struggle To Be the Sun Again; Women and Religion in America; The End of Christendom and the Future of Christianity; Encyclopedia of Gods, Over 2,500 Deities of the World; The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets; Aryan Sun-Myths, The Origin of Religions; The Mothers, A Study of the Origins of Sentiments and Institutions; His Religion and Hers; Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Nonfiction Reader
390-408
21
We Jews and Jesus; Adolph von Harnack; Bruno Bauer; Sylvain Mar?chal
409-420
22
Robert Taylor; The Formation of the New Testament; The Canon of the New Testament; Adolph Harnack History of Dogma; Apologetics; New Testament Apocrypha; "Old Christian Literature"; Ancient Christian Gospels; Christian Convention, Nicaea, A.D. 325; Constantine; The Freethought Exchange; Lies and Fiction in the Ancient World
421-466
23
Cicero; Resurrection; Fiction; Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls; Holbach; Popular Freethought in America,1825-1850; Robert Taylor; Winwood Reade; Nietzsche; Mencken
467-487
24
Addendum A
Orpheus A History of Religions; Zeus A Study in Ancient Religion; Egyptians; Egypt; Alexandria; Robert Taylor; Gnostics; Forerunners and Rivals of Christianity; The Wit of the Greeks and Romans; The Religions of the Roman Empire; Greek and Roman Religion; Winwood Reade; Scriptores Historiae Augustae; disease; New Testament demonology; King James the First; historical problems associated with the Library(Libraries)at Alexandria; Marcus Tullius Cicero,and Marcus Iunius Brutus; Celsus On the True Doctrine, A Discourse Against the Christians
488-545
25
Addendum B
The God Idea of the Ancients; The Bible and the British Museum; A Short History of the Bible
546-560
Articles: Author Index
561-583
Articles: Subject Index
584-627
Articles: Bibliography
628-664
APPENDIXES
Samples from the following articles (references) appeared in 2 issues (numbers 37-38) of The Freethought Exchange, 1998.
I
A Short History of the Bible; Christianity: The Sources of its Teaching and Symbolism; The Encyclopedia of Biblical Errancy; The History of Torture Throughout the Ages; The Militant Agnostic
666-682
II
Short Studies in the Science of Comparative Religions; Faiths of Man Encyclopedia of Religions
683-712
III
Forgers and Critics; Fakes and Frauds; The Catholic Encyclopedia; An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent; From Bossuet to Newman; The Prolegomena of Jean Hardouin
713-732
IV
The Exact Sciences in Antiquity;The First Stargazers; The Birth of Astronomy; Stairways to the Stars; Gods, Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia; The Origin of all Religious Worship; Star Names Their Lore and Meaning; The Dawn of Astronomy
733-749
V
A Bibliography of Sex Rites and Customs; Sex Worship; The Sex Worship and Symbolism of Primitive Races; Sex in Religion
750-760
VI
Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism; The Migration of Symbols; Sacred Symbols in Art; Sex Symbolism in Religion; Life Symbols; A Dictionary of Symbols; Gods, Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia
761-777
VII
A Gentle Cynic; The Song of Songs; The World of George Jean Nathan; The Meditations
778-793
VIII
Christianity: The Sources of its Teaching and Symbolism; The History of Childhood;Foundations of Psychohistory;Ancient Faiths and Modern; The Rise, Decline & Fall of the Roman Religion; Rivers of Life
794-813
IX
[El; Elohim; Etc.] Rivers of Life; Short Studies in the Science of Comparative Religions; Faiths of Man Encyclopedia of Religions; God, gods, and the Sons of God
814-825
X
I Believe; Treatise on the Gods; A Mencken Chrestomathy; Living Philosophies
826-833
Appendixes: Author Index
834-838
Appendixes: Subject Index
839-839
Appendixes: Bibliography
840-846
ADDITIONS
1
Francesco Guicciardini
848-853
2
Superstition in All Ages; Baron d'Holbach
854-857
3
The Existence of Christ Disproved; Xenophanes of Colophon
858-873
4
The Keys of the Creeds
874-881
5
A History of Freethought
882-883
6
Queen Jane's Version,The Holy Bible for ...... Only
884-886
7
American Freethought
887-888
8
Fifty Years of Freethought
889-890
9
The Christ
891-905
10
Magic and Religion
906-906
11
How the Irish Saved Civilization
907-909
12
Lectures on the Essence of Religion
910-913
13
A Rationalist Encyclopaedia; The .-Rated Bible
914-924
14
How Christianity Grew Out of Paganism
925-929
15
MARTIN LUTHER 1483 - 1546; Anti-Semitism
930-1005
16
H.L. Mencken 1006-1011
17
The Glassmakers, An Odyssey of the Jews
1012-1018
18
The Encyclopedia of Cults; The Jesus Myth
1019-1020
19
Laughter (some): Laughing Gods; Not the Bible
1021-1032
20
India; Science; Etc.
1033-1068
21
Alexander Del Mar 1836 - 1926
1069-1124
22
In Search of Ancient Italy
1125-1127
23
The Romans and Their Gods, in the Age of Augustus
1128-1129
24
Slavery; Christianity Slavery and Labour
1130-1166
25
Tertullian; Early Christian Beliefs; History of the Bible
Inquisition: Torture and Intolerance; Etc. (see 1449)
1449-1495
34
NEW TESTAMENT SOURCES; Etc. (see 1496-1499, 1641-1644)
1496-1644
35
Carlile; Women Without Superstition; Burr; Strange; (see 1645)
1645-1734
36
THIRTY CENTURIES OF FORGERIES; Etc. (see 1735)
1735-1837
Addendum
1838-1899
Postscript
1900-1991
37
Christianism (?Christianity?). Islamism.
1992-2075
38
Julius Caesar 100 - 44 B.C.E.; Fiction
2076-2117
39
Francis Bacon 1561 - 1626
2118-2139
40
Jesus; Spiritualism; Death; Afterlife; Etc. (see 2140)
2140-2206
41
Ingersoll; Bible; Jesus; Etc. (see 2207)
2207-2297
42
Goddesses; Gods; Etc. (see 2298)
2298-2366
43
Judge Parish B. Ladd [died 1912]
2367-2422
44
History of Fiction
2423-2473
45
Why I Quit Going To Church; Etc. (see 2474)
2474-2512
46
Pauline Epistles; Cults and Isms; Etc. (see 2513)
2513-2565
47
Mencken on Religion; Naked Ape; Gods; Etc. (see 2566)
2566-2665
Additions: Author Index
2666-2684
Additions: Subject Index
2685-2685
Additions: Bibliography
2686-2725
Postscript
2726-2726
NOTES
1 Early Greek Philosophy; Unbelief in the Ancient World 2728-2738 2 Seneca c. 4 B.C.E. - 65 C.E. 2739-2745 3 Pagan Christs 2746-2752 4 HELL 2753-2799 5 BARON D'HOLBACH 1723 - 1789 2800-2839 6 Science in Theology; A Critical History of Freethought 2840-2846 7 The Psychology of Religion 2847-2848 8 "Jesus Christ!" An Italian Lawsuit 2849-2850 9 Montaigne; Robert Taylor; Gibbon; The Rationalist's Manual; Christianism; Max Schmeling; "Israel indicts 4 in forgery ring involving counterfeit artifacts"; The Origin of Satan; Kinko's 2851-2855 10 God and Evolution; Why Europe Chooses Extinction; What the Jews Won't Tell You; A History of American Secularism; musician Bob Wills; Drugs or Jesus 2856-2868 11 FORGERY, FALSE ATTRIBUTION, AND FICTION 2869-2872 12 Antichristianism ("Authorized Version" ("King James Version", in the USA)); The Bible as Folklore; Bibles; The Making of the King James Bible ("King James Version") 2873-2895 13 HORROR VACUI 2896-2938 14 FEAR OF DEATH 2939-3058
Notes: Author Index 3059-3085
Notes: Subject Index 3086-3087
Notes: Bibliography 3088-3095
SUPPLEMENTAL RESEARCHES
Preface
2-3
1 "WHAT PROFIT HAS NOT THAT FABLE OF CHRIST BROUGHT US!" (see 4-5) 4-151 2 John Bale; Sannazaro; et al. (see 152-153) 152-274 3 Catholic censorship. Protestant censorship; State censorship. Etc. (see 275) 275-335 4 Erasmus (see 336-337) 336-508 5 Ulrich von Hutten; et al. (see 509) 509-581 6 Skepticism. Santayana (see 582) 582-668 7 Theological lying. Etc. (see 669) 669-766 8 Additional References 767-771
Supplemental Researches: Bibliography
772-792
These researches include the Renaissance and Reformation, and often center around 1500, and the personalities:
* Our Sun-God [John Denham Parsons, 1895] [see: Aryan Sun-Myths, The Origins of Religions, Sarah Elizabeth Titcomb, 1889, christianism.com, pages 402-403] [for the book scan, I thank thebooktree.com]
* The Non-Christian Cross, an Enquiry into the Origin and History of the Symbol Eventually Adopted as that of our Religion [John Denham Parsons, 1896] [The Christian Cross, another Christian Fiction]
* Purgatory: Gold Mine of the Priesthood [see 2768; etc.]
* Torture, and the Christian Cross (my developed link)
* The Inquisition - A Pictorial History
* Unholy Mother of Intolerance, The Inquisition
* Pagan and Christian (Neo-Pagan) Rome [Rodolfo Lanciani, 1892]
* The United States: A Country founded on Paganism
* Religions of the World
* Religions of Today's World
* Oil painting by Adolph Hitler of Mother Mary ("Mutter Maria") with Jesus
* Hitler's Christianity
* Nazi photos
* Nazi Artifacts
* Was Catholic Hitler "Anti-Christian"?
* Jesus
* Sermon on the Mount [see: christianism.com, pages: 10(76., 77.), 11(88.), 66(344.), 1372(9), 1468-1469, 1504-1518, 1681, 1792, 1939, 2198, 2503, 2507-2508, 2509-2512, 2751, 2821]
* Accuracy of the New Testament [Accuracy of Fiction]
* The New Testament Manuscripts [Manuscripts of Fiction]
* The Freethinker's Text-Book [Annie Besant, 1876]
* Skeptic's Annotated Bible, Quran (Koran), Book of Mormon
* Forgery: Religious
* Forgery: Antiquities
* Forgery: Literary
* Vatican [phenomenal Museum]
* http://catholic.com, Catholic Answers [mostly, a negative reference, for comparisons]
* Chick Publications [a perennial Protestant critic of Catholicism]
* Roger Pearse
* Richard Carrier
* Neurotheology (on Wikipedia)
* Neurotheology
* Neurotheology: BBC: Richard Dawkins; Vilayanur Ramachandran
* Spirituality & The Brain
* The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
* Websites with a link to christianism.com
The Champions of the Church: Their Crimes and Persecutions
"....to break up and die, to return to Nature the elements lent by her, that she may use them again according to her good pleasure.
It is thus, moreover, that all religions end, religions which, like living organisms, are born of a need, nourished upon death, die day by day of life, and finally lapse again into the eternal crucible." see page 359
