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The material below is presented to the layperson to introduce them to the many currents that operate within Christianity, Judaism, Zoroastrianism, and Hellenism. Most of the material I use is written by believers in God (myself included) and I try to avoid the use of material from atheist/Humanists sources.

• St. Augustine
• The Confessions of St. Augustine
• St. Augustine and Evolution
• Saint Augustine and the Western Christian World-View
• Early Years of St Augustine
• St Augustine: Development of His Views
• St Augustine: Conversion and Ordination
• St. Augustine: Anti-Manicheanism and Pelagian Writings
• St Augustine: Manichean and Neoplatonist Period
• St. Augustine: Activity Against Donatism

• Notes on Neoplatonism
• Early Christian and Medieval Neoplatonism
• Pelagius: To Demetrias, why he was cleared of heresy
• Pelagius: Chapters
• Pelagius and why he was right.
• Defense Of The Freedom Of The Will
• How Christianity drew on Philo's synthesis of Judaism and Hellenism

• A discussion of Pantheism and Deism
• Overview of Gnosticism
• Gnostic Terms
• Alexander, the Jews, and Hellenism
• Hellenistic period
• Syncretism
• Platonism and Christianity
• Demiurge
• Who are the Cathers?
• Docetism
• Allegorical Interpretation
• Marcion's Church Not Really Gnostic?
• Jewish Origins of Gnosticism

• Original Sin
• Original Sin as seen from Judaism
• Dualism
• John Calvin: Free Will and Predestination
• 3 Magi, Zoroastrian Pilgrims

• Another Look at Religion in America 2008
• Jesus from a non-Protestant View
• Death and Mayhem in the Old Testament
• Why Liberal Christian Churches are Failures
• Anabaptists: Separate by Choice, Marginal by Force
• Comments from Mark and Don on the End-Times
• Arianism
• Arminianism, an overview
• Calvin and Calvinism
• Comments on the Great Awakening
• Devil, Demons and Hell
• The Devil Did Not Make You Do It
• Jesus the Man
• Marcion
• The Gospel of John, an overview
• Early Christian and Medieval Neoplatonism
• Salvation is not just "faith alone"
• Servetus: His Ashes Cry Out Against John Calvin
• Are Christians Crazy?
• Pelagius: Defense Of The Freedom Of The Will
• Pelagius

Apostle Paul

• Paul the Apostle and Salvation Thru Faith
• James, Paul, and the Dead Sea Scrolls by John Oller
• The Theology of Paul
• Review of Hyam Maccoby's Paul and Hellenism by John Mann
• Paul's Bungling Attempt At Sounding Pharisaic by Hyam Maccoby
• Hyam Maccoby was mostly right
• The Problem of Paul Indroduction
• The Problem of Paul 1
• The Problem of Paul 2
• Jesus and the Jewish Resistance Introduction
• Jesus and the Jewish Resistance: The Messiah
• Jesus and the Jewish Resistance: The Pharisees
• Jesus and the Jewish Resistance: The King of the Jews
• Jesus and the Jewish Resistance: The Day of the Lord

• Apostle Paul Founder of Christianity
• Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet
• Modern Ebionites
• Comments on the Ebionites
• Comments on the Apostle Paul
• Jesus and The Day of the Lord
• Paul: the Father of Sexism and Anti-Semitism?
• Reassessing the Apostle Paul
• The Heresy of Thomas: Mystery & Wisdom
• James the Just and Salvation via Works
• The Heresy of Peter: Compromised Christianity
• The Heresy of Luther: Reformation Undone
• "Killed Their Own Prophets": New Testament Libel of the Jews

• Christian Anti-Semitism
• Judaism Meets Hellenism and the Logos
• Hellenism and Its Influences on Judaism in Alexandria
• Resemblances Between Zoroastrianism and Judaism
• How Christianity drew on Philo's synthesis of Judaism and Hellenism
• Christian Jew-Haters
• Christianity as a sect of Judaism?
• Jews Killed Christ?
• Hellenism Meets Judaism
• Hellenistic Judaism
• Monotheism
• Remembering the Jews of Monticello
• John Adams embraces a Jewish homeland
• Reform Judaism and the relationship to Deism.
• Who is Moses Mendelssohn?

• Was Jesus Zoroaster or Buddha?
• Resemblances Between Zoroastrianism and Judaism
• Judaism Meets Zoroastrianism
• The Gospels: What are we to believe?
• Zoroastrianism: The Forgotten and Lost Sources

Freemasons, Unitarians, Deists

• French Deism: deistic Humanism, Pantheism
• The English Deists: Introduction
• Is it Unitarianism or Deism?
• Fewer Americans in church

• The English Deists: Matthew Tindal
• Why Do Some People Hate Freemasonry? by D. Pipes
• Famous Freemasons
• What is the connection between Judaism and Freemasonry?
• Elizabeth and the Puritans by Will Durant
• The Summons to Reason 1558-1649 by Will Durant
• Rule of Religion by Will Durant
• Sermon: Unitarian Roots in England and America
• Thomas Paine: Apostle of Freedom
• Information on John Locke

• Freemasons, Conspiracy Thinking, and Pat Robertson
• Pat Robertson and More Conspiracy Theories
• Conspiracy theories and Blacks
• The Hard Right and Conspiracy Theories
• A Messianic Bloodline, the Jews and Freemasonry

Religion and History

[ Deism ] [ Islam ] [ Gnosticism ] [ Christianity ] [ Judaism ] [ Unitarianism ] [ Zoroastrianism ]

[ Pantheism ] [ Fundamentalism ] [ Evolution ] [ Original Sin ] [ Trinity ] [ End Times ]

[ Apostle Paul ] [ Apostle John ] [ John Calvin ] [ St. Augustine ] [ Pelagius ]

[ Martin Luther ] [ Real Jesus ] [ Paganism ] [ The Devil ] [ New Age ] [ Pat Robertson ]

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Evolution

• Which Creation Biblical Story?
• Religion of Isaac Asimov
• Ohio Board Hears Debate on an Alternative to Darwinism

Non Profits and Local

• Nonprofits Reach for Profits on the Side
• Workfare and Non-Profits
• Tax Churches
• Sample Church
• Nepotism an issue in Sullivan County, Kingsport city government in Tennessee
• About the Bristol Area
• Who served in the military?
• Government Failure in Dickenson County, VA
• Virginia's rich areas richer; poor get poorer
• Bristol Wal-Mart Controversy
• Study: Thousands of Wal-Mart workers on TennCare
• Illegals boost bottom line at Wal-Mart
• Wal-Mart Raids by U.S. Aimed at Illegal Immigrants
• Cleaner at Wal-Mart Tells of Few Breaks and Low Pay
• Wal-Mart Memo Suggests Ways to Cut Employee Benefit Costs
• Suits Say Wal-Mart Forces Workers to Toil Off the Clock
• Flying with Pork-Barrel Airways
• RAM Project update 2003
• RAM Project Page
• Fun and Games at Eastman Chemical in Kingsport Tennessee

End Times

• What is Christian Fundamentalism?
• Dispensationalism and John Nelson Darby
• Comments From a Former Fundamentalist
• Comments and additions from Mark
• The Adventists Churches and the End-Times
• Armageddon and All That Jazz
• 220 Failed Second Comings
• Pastors Play Down End-Times Speculation
• Christian Confusion and the End-Times

• Comments on the Second Great Awakening
• Thou shalt have no other gods before the ACLU
• The gospel roots of Christian pantheism
• Gibson's Blood Libel
• The incoming sea of faith
• Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
• Unitarianism Spreads in the Church of England, 1690 - 1750

Deism versus Islam

Islam

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• Origin of the Koran
• Who served in the US military?
• Israel Storm: a warning from a Hindu
• Saudi Arabia Still Number 1 Terrorist State in 2008
• Lt. Col. Martha McSally wins fight against degrading Islamic garb!
• Muslim 'Palestinians' firebomb Christian 'Palestinians'
• Why Islamism and the Left Hate Daniel Pipes
• Islam's Deadly Truth
• Islamic Bloc, Christian Right Team Up to Lobby U.N.
• Deism versus Islam
• At Least 7 Killed as Muslim Terrorists Bomb Jerusalem Campus
• Do I hate Islam and Muslims? It's about Sharia
• UNWORTHY OF TURKEY: Lessons from Iran's Easter parade of British hostages
• Ask Professor Esposito, NOI, and Racism
• Feds hold retired doctor under shrouded circumstances, controversy erupts.
• The Fight for Democracy in Iran and a salute to heroes.
• Congressmen Challenge 'Friendship' of Child-Stealing Saudis