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Title: Christian History
Post by: Unbeliever on October 20, 2006, 10:58:44 am
Exposing Christianity (http://tinyurl.com/658kd8)

The Dark Side of Christien History - Helen Ellerbe (http://ethosworld.com/library/Ellerbe-The-Dark-Side-of-Christian-History-(1995).pdf) - PDF

Caesar's Messiah: The Roman Conspiracy To Invent Jesus (https://archive.org/stream/pdfy-9SJQolWByYI1w0U4/Caesar%27s%20Messiah%20%5BThe%20Roman%20Conspiracy%20To%20Invent%20Jesus%5D_djvu.txt) - PDF

The Myth of Persecution (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Myth_of_Persecution) -  Candida Moss


Types of Christianity in History
Who Were the First Christians?
(http://www.vexen.co.uk/religion/christianity_historical.html)

Contra Celsus, by Origen (http://www.documenta-catholica.eu/d_0185-0254-%20Origene%20-%20Contra%20Celsus%20-%20EN.pdf) - PDF

Pagan Origins of the Christ Myth - Part 1 (http://www.nbufront.org/html/MastersMuseums/JGJackson/ChristMyth/ChristMythPart1.html) - John G. Jackson, 1941
Pagan Origins of the Christ Myth - Part 2 (http://www.nbufront.org/html/MastersMuseums/JGJackson/ChristMyth/ChristMythPart2.html) - John G. Jackson, 1941

The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors (http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/kersey_graves/16/) - Kersey Graves
The Anacalypsis (http://members.tripod.com/~pc93/anacalyp.htm) - Godfrey Higgins, 1833

WHY ARE THEY THE SAME STORIES? (http://paganizingfaithofyeshua.netfirms.com/)
CHART (http://paganizingfaithofyeshua.netfirms.com/parallels_chart.htm)

Pagan Origins of the Christ Myth (POCM) (http://home.earthlink.net/~pgwhacker/ChristianOrigins/)

Parallels between Christianity
and ancient Pagan religions
(http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_jcpa1.htm)

The Affinity Between Christianity and Paganism (http://www.tolueislam.com/Bazm/Joommal/ASK_3_1.htm)

Zoroastrianism and its Progeny (http://users.cyberone.com.au/myers/zoroastrianism.html)

Influence of Zoroastrianism on Other Religions (http://www.zarathushtra.com/z/article/influenc.htm)

The Zoroastrian-Biblical Connections -- Influence of Zoroastrianism in Other Religions (http://www.zarathushtra.com/z/article/biblicalconnection.htm)

About Zoroastrian Hell (http://www.hell-on-line.org/AboutZOR.html)

Mithras (http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Mithras)
Jesus as the Reincarnation of Mithras (http://www.near-death.com/experiences/origen048.html)
The "Mithras Liturgy" (http://www.plekos.uni-muenchen.de/2004/rbetz.html)

Mithraism and Christianity (http://www.vexen.co.uk/religion/mithraism.html)

The Diversity of Early Christianity (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/religion/first/diversity.html)

Why Did the Apostles Die? (http://atheism.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ/Ya&sdn=atheism&cdn=religion&tm=33&gps=97_9_788_439&f=00&tt=14&bt=1&bts=1&zu=http%3A//www.infidels.org/library/magazines/tsr/1997/4/4why97.html)

Kooks and Quacks of the Roman Empire (http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/richard_carrier/kooks.html)

Problems in Dating the Crucifixion (http://enochsolarcalendar.com/problemsindatingthecrucifixion.htm)

Nero's Fire and the Christian Persecution? (http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Atrium/3678/Nero.htm)

Christian Crimeline (http://www.buckcash.com/opinions/temp/Christian_Crimeline.htm)

The Story of the Storytellers: From Jesus to Christ (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/religion/story/emergence.html)

The Dutch Radical Approach to the Pauline Epistles (http://www.depts.drew.edu/jhc/detering.html)

The Pauline Writings (http://www.depts.drew.edu/jhc/vanpaul.html)

Christian History (http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_ch.htm)

Christian timelines 6 CE to 2000 CE (http://atheism.about.com/library/FAQs/christian/blchron_xian_index.htm)

An Examination of the "Evidence" for Jesus
(http://www.atheistnetwork.com/viewtopic.php?t=3275) - Rook Hawkins

Gospel Errors in Timing (http://atheism.about.com/library/FAQs/christian/blchron_xian_gospels.htm)

Christian Historicity: Are Christian Historical Claims True? (http://atheism.about.com/od/christianhistoric/)

Persecution Under Domitian (http://users.drew.edu/ddoughty/Christianorigins/persecutions/domitian.html)

The Annals of Tacitus (http://classics.mit.edu/Tacitus/annals.html)

Celsus' view of Christians and Christianity (http://www.bluffton.edu/~humanities/1/celsus.htm)

Creeds in Christendom (http://www.creeds.net/)

Discourse on the Forgery
of the Alleged Donation of Constantine
(http://history.hanover.edu/texts/vallaintro.html)
Council of Nicea (http://www.piar.hu/councils/ecum01.htm)

What Happened After the Council of Nicea? (http://www.mountainman.com.au/essenes/article_060.htm)

Tertullian (http://www.tertullian.org/articles/roberts_theology/roberts_01.htm)

Forged Church Documents (http://www.catholicconcerns.com/History.html)

Forgery in Christianity (http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/joseph_wheless/forgery_in_christianity/)

The Criminal History of the Papacy (http://www.nexusmagazine.com/articles/Papacy1.html)

The Five Biggest Baddass Popes (http://www.cracked.com/article_15648_five-biggest-badass-popes.html)

Pope Joan (http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/popeJoan.html)

Christian Theologians (http://atheism.about.com/library/FAQs/christian/blfaq_people_index.htm)

Christianity and Violence (http://atheism.about.com/library/FAQs/christian/blfaq_viol_index.htm)

The Crusades (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook1k.html)

Victims of the Christian Faith (http://www.truthbeknown.com/victims.htm)

Killings for Christianity (http://markhumphrys.com/christianity.killings.html)

Christianity and Violence: Early History (http://atheism.about.com/library/FAQs/christian/blfaq_viol_early.htm)

An Overview of 2,000 Years of the Persecution of Jews (http://www.religioustolerance.org/jud_pers.htm)

The Auto-da-fe (http://www.jesusneverexisted.com/burning.html)

The Auto da Fe of Madrid in 1680 (http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/a/m/amw288/)

Knights Templar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_Templar)

Knights Templar secrets revealed (http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/10/12/knights.pardon.ap/index.html)

Ad Exstirpanda (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_exstirpanda)

Inquisition Catholic Encyclopedia (http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08026a.htm)

The Inquisition (http://www.askwhy.co.uk/christianity/0815Inquisition.html#Torture)

Midieval Inquisition (http://courseweb.stthomas.edu/medieval/francis/inquisition.htm)

Midieval Torture (http://www.medievality.com/torture.html)

Infernal Device: Machinery of Torture and Execution (http://www.occasionalhell.com/infdevice/)

Spanish Inquisition (http://www.rotten.com/library/history/inquisition/)

Portuguese Inquisition (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_Inquisition)

Goa Inquisition (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goa_Inquisition)

Roman Inquisition (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Inquisition)

An Inquisition Torture Session (http://www.corvalliscommunitypages.com/Europe/jesuits_saints_inquisition_reformation/an_inquisition_torture_session.htm)

A Heretic's Final Journey (http://dim.com/~randl/racking.htm)

The Murder of Michael Servetus (http://www.bcbsr.com/topics/servetus.html)

Colonial Torture Methods (http://www.francesfarmersrevenge.com/stuff/archive/torture/colonial.htm)

Indian Depradations in Utah (http://www.blackhawkwarutah.com/)

Religion and the Founding Fathers (http://www.anotherperspective.org/advoc550.html)

Our Founding Fathers Were Not Christians (http://freethought.mbdojo.com/foundingfathers.html)

The Ancient Inventors and Modern Perpetuators of Hell (http://www.what-the-hell-is-hell.com/AncientHell.htm)

Castrati (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castrato)

Castrato (http://www.glbtq.com/arts/castrati.html)

Christianity and the Mathematical Sciences - the Heliocentric Hypothesis (http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Heliocentric.html)

A Brief History of the Apocalypse (http://www.abhota.info/index.htm)

A Short History of Christian Fundamentalism (http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Hangar/2437/fundiehistory.htm)

Christianity's Role in the Rise of the Nazis (http://www.secularhumanism.org/library/fi/paul_23_4.html)

Catholic Croatia's Atrocities (http://www.nobeliefs.com/ChurchesWWII.htm#anchor2b)

Hitler's Beliefs and Fanaticism (http://www.sullivan-county.com/nf0/hitler/hitler1.htm)

Hitler Was a Christian (http://www.evilbible.com/hitler_was_christian.htm)

Adolf Hitler's Religion (http://www.stardestroyer.net/Creationism/Essays/Hitler.shtml)

Adolph Hitler - Christian, Atheist, or Neither? (http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/mischedj/ca_hitler.html)

Nazi Religious Photos (http://www.nobeliefs.com/nazis.htm)

Christian Terrorism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_terrorism)

Christian terrorist attempts car-bombing in Iowa (http://jdallen.org/news/christian-terrorist-attempts-car-bombing-in-iowa/)

Christian Communism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_communism)

The History of Christmas (http://www.history.com/minisites/christmas/)

Tennesee vs. John Scopes: The "Monkey" Trial (http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scopes/scopes.htm)

Mother Teresa: Where are Her Millions? (http://www.members.lycos.co.uk/bajuu/)

The Mother of All Myths (http://www.members.lycos.co.uk/bajuu/)

Hitchens, Interview on Mother Teresa (http://www.secularhumanism.org/library/fi/hitchens_16_4.html)

India has no reason to be grateful to Mother Teresa (http://www.mukto-mona.com/Articles/mother_teresa/sanal_ed.htm)

Mother Teresa's Crisis of Faith (http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1655415,00.html)

Mommie Dearest (http://www.slate.com/id/2090083/)

Apparitions of Jesus and Mary (http://www.apparitions.org/#apparitions)

The New Religious Right in America (http://www.counterpunch.org/baker05122005.html)

The Religious Right: An Anti-American Terrorist Movement (http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8816.htm)

The Crusaders (http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/7235393/the_crusaders/)

Christian fascism: The Jesus Gestapo of St. Orwell (http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_1708.shtml)

Through a Glass, Darkly: How the Christian right is reimagining U.S. history (http://www.harpers.org/ThroughAGlassDarkly-12838838.html)

Articles on the Rise of Dominionism in America (http://www.yuricareport.com/Dominionism/DirectoryRiseOfDominionismInAmerica.html)

The Despoiling of America (http://www.yuricareport.com/Dominionism/TheDespoilingOfAmerica.htm)

Dominionism and the Rise of Christian Imperialism (http://www.crossroad.to/articles2/05/sarah-leslie/dominionism.htm)

Bush and the Merger of Church and State (http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/ci_6270560)

Christianists on the March (http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20070128_christianists_on_the_march/)

For God's Sake (http://richarddawkins.net/article,875,For-Gods-Sake,Paul-Krugman)

A History of Anti-abortion Violence (http://www.prochoice.org/about_abortion/violence/history_violence.html)

Televangelist, Fundamentalists believe their strict morality is the only answer (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/09/23/MN202713.DTL)

An Evolving Faith: Does the president believe he has a divine mandate? (http://www.beliefnet.com/story/121/story_12112_1.html)
George Bush: "God told me to end the tyranny in Iraq" (http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1586978,00.html)

List of Young-Earth Creationists (http://www.answers.com/topic/list-of-young-earth-creationists)

The Christian Right Goes Back to Bible Boot Camp (http://www.alternet.org/stories/44934/)

Numbers of World Religions Tend to be Exaggerated (http://www.vexen.co.uk/religion/numbers.html)

Pedophile Priests (http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week525/cover.html)

Archbishop Says Weeping Satues Were Fraudulent (http://www.cathnews.com/news/407/170.php)
Catholic Church say weeping statues fake (http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/04-07-30.html)

Catholic Church no longer swears by truth of the Bible (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article574768.ece)
The Gift of Scripture (http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:FZJYuR_u0QMJ:www.catholic-ew.org.uk/publications/Gift%2520of%2520Scripture%2520text.pdf+%22The+Gift+of+Scripture%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us)

Pope Predicts End of European Union (http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=50093)

Pope says Catholic Politicians Must Oppose Gay Marriage (http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN1340012320070313)

Greetings from Idiot America (http://www.aboyandhiscomputer.com/Greetings_from_Idiot_America.html)

Christian separatist readying move to new homeland (http://www.onenewsnow.com/2007/06/christian_separatist_readying.php)

Some Fundamentalists Ache for Armageddon (http://www.preteristarchive.com/dEmEnTiA/press_brownfeld-allen.html)

Library of End-of-world Dates (http://www.bible.ca/pre-date-setters.htm)

How a 'fourth tier' religious law school infiltrated the US Government (http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article2033067.ece)

U.S. Supreme Court: Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, 143 U.S. 457 (1892) (http://supreme.justia.com/us/143/457/case.html) - Judge declares America to be a "Christian nation"
Quote"The central support for the Court's ultimate conclusion that Congress did not intend the law to cover Christian ministers is its lengthy review of the 'mass of organic utterances' establishing that 'this is a Christian nation,' and which were taken to prove that it could not 'be believed that a Congress of the United States intended to make it a misdemeanor for a church of this country to contract for the services of a Christian minister residing in another nation.'" Id., at 471


American Supreme Court swing to the right, undermining First Amendment (http://www.secularism.org.uk/83429.html)

Pope Remark Kicks Up Storm (http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Pope_remark_kicks_up_storm/articleshow/2202840.cms)

Pope Benedict Admits Evidence for Evolution (http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22136550-5002700,00.html)

US Map of Faith (http://richarddawkins.net/article,1404,n,n)

Evangelicals Are a Growing Force in the Military Chaplain Corps (http://www.yuricareport.com/Dominionism/EvangelicalsForceInMilitaryChaplainCorps.html)

Imperial Presidency Can Now Promote Religion (http://ffrf.org/news/2007/heinstatement.php)

City of God: Catholic Fla. Town Opens (http://www.abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=3401106)

The Deadly Virus of Celebrity Christianity (http://www.charismamag.com/fireinmybones/)

Christianity Finds a Fulcrum in Asia (http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China/IH07Ad03.html)

Christian Denomination Comparison Charts (http://www.religionfacts.com/christianity/denominations/comparison_charts.htm)

List of Christian Denominations (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christian_denominations)

The Evangelical Movement's Breakdown Ain't so Cute After All (http://www.alternet.org/sex/66509/)

Evangelical: Religious Right Has Distorted the Faith (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5502785)

Vatican lists "new sins," including pollution (http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSL109602320080310?feedType=nl&feedName=ustopnewsearly)

Benedict XVI's US visit a PR ploy for more priests? (http://blog.beliefnet.com/news/2008/04/will-the-popes-visit-lead-to-m.php)

Critics Say Day of Prayer 'Hijacked' by Evangelicals (http://blog.beliefnet.com/news/2008/04/critics-say-day-of-prayer-hija.php)

Southern Baptist Membership Declined in 2007 (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080425/ap_on_re_us/baptists_decline;_ylt=AiGIqbOiKDKKCArA4gMazHes0NUE)

Aliens Receive Blessing From Catholics (http://weddingfavor.wordpress.com/2008/05/14/aliens-receive-blessing-from-catholics/)

The Jesus Seminar (http://www.leaderu.com/orgs/probe/docs/jesussem.html)

The Jesus Project (http://richardcarrier.blogspot.com/2008/12/jesus-project.html)

Christian Terror Cells in the USA (http://www.commonplacebook.com/current_events/politics/christian_terro.shtm)

Vatican warned Irish bishops not to report pedophile priests (http://lvlegalnews.com/high-profile/5202.html)
Title: Re: Christian History Links
Post by: Unbeliever on March 01, 2007, 11:40:55 am
http://www.spectacle.org/0201/ashcroft.html

John Ashcroft's Speech at Bob Jones University:

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Thank you very much, Dr. Bob. I want to thank each of you for investing yourselves in the mission of Christ -- in redemption and forgiveness, and for preparing yourselves in the way that you have.
A slogan of the American revolution which was so distressing to the emissaries of the king that it was found in correspondence sent back to England, was the line, "We have no king but Jesus". Tax collectors came, asking for that which belonged to the king, and colonists frequently said, "We have no king but Jesus". It found its way into the fundamental documents of this great country. You could quote the Declaration with me, "We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, and are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights". Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we have understood that our source is eternal, America has been different. We have no king but Jesus.

My mind thinking about that once raced back a couple of thousand years when Pilate stepped before the people in Jerusalem and said, "Whom would ye that I release unto you? Barabas? Or Jesus, which is called the Christ?" And when they said "Barabas," he said, "But what about Jesus? King of the Jews?" And the outcry was, "We have no king but Caesar".

There's a difference between a culture that has no king but Caesar, no standard but the civil authority, and a culture that has no king but Jesus, no standard but the eternal authority. When you have no king but Caesar, you release Barabas -- criminality, destruction, thievery, the lowest and least. When you have no king but Jesus, you release the eternal, you release the highest and best, you release virtue, you release potential.

It is not accidental that America has been the home of the brave and the land of the free, the place where mankind has had the greatest of all opportunities, to approach the potential that God has placed within us. It has been because we knew that we were endowed not by the king, but by the Creator, with certain unalienable rights. If America is to be great in the future, it will be if we understand that our source is not civic and temporal, but our source is godly and eternal. Endowed by the Creator with rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I thank God for this institution and for you, who recognize and commit yourselves to the proposition that we were so created, and that to live with respect to the Creator promises us the greatest potential as a nation and as individuals. And for such we must reacquaint ourselves daily with His call upon our lives.

Thank you. God bless you, and thank you for honoring me by allowing me to stand with Asa [Hutchinson], Lindsey [Graham] and a great Governor.

(Applause)