Resources - Criticism
Biblical Errancy
Biblical Errancy by Dennis McKinsey - “The issues raised in Biblical Errancy represent a challenge to Bible inerrantists, and religion in general.”
Cygnus’s Study — Debunking the Bible
Inconsistencies of the New Testament - “These lists are meant to identify possible problems in the King James Version of the New Testament, especially problems which are inherent in a literalist or fundamentalist interpretation.”
Is the Bible True? - Side-by-side pro and con arguments regarding the claims of Biblical truth
The “Holey” Bible - “Contradictions and Fallacies in the Holy Bible”
The Real Bible: Who’s got it? - An examination of the many versions of the Christian Bible
Christian Responses to Biblical Errors (See what the other side has to say)
Theology and Morality
Christianity Meme Web Site - “Christianity Meme is an organization of people who wish to expose Christianity for what it really is–a mind virus that controls human behavior to facilitate its own survival.”
Mythical Origins of Christianity
Christ a Fiction by Robert M. Price - Price examines Jesus Christ as a mythical character
Pagan Origins of the Christ Myth - “How much did Christianity inherit from the Pagans? Everything”
The Origins of Christianity and the Quest for the Historical Jesus Christ
The Jesus Puzzle - “Was there no historical Jesus?”
The Nazarene Way - The Esoteric Teachings of Jesus and the Nazarene Essenes
Christian Responses to the Historicity of Jesus
(See what the other side has to say)
Refuting the Myth that Jesus Never Existed - “The thesis that Jesus never existed has hovered around the fringes of research into the New Testament for centuries but never been able to become an accepted theory. This is for good reason, as it is simply a bad hypothesis based on arguments from silence, special pleading and an awful lot of wishful thinking.”
Jesus Never Existed?? - “The articles below contain even more facts and plain old common sense to help clear up this groundless argument that ‘Jesus never existed’.”
Science and the Bible
The Talk.Origins Archive - The Talk.Origins Archive is a collection of articles and essays, most of which have appeared in talk.origins at one time or another. The primary reason for this archive’s existence is to provide mainstream scientific responses to the many frequently asked questions (FAQs) that appear in the talk.origins newsgroup and the frequently rebutted assertions of those advocating intelligent design or other creationist pseudosciences.
The Question of Noah’s Flood: A Debate
Creation “Science” Debunked - “This website has one very clear objective in mind–to present a critique of creation “science”, and to serve as a guide to fighting the creationists and their attempts to impose their peculiar interpretations of religion onto our society”
Report on the Firmament - “This report examines the question of the identity of the firmament in the Bible, made on the second day of Creation Week, as described in the first chapter of Genesis.”
The Antiquity of Man - “Exploring human evolution and the dawn of civilisation”
Biopoesis - “‘My Scientific Discussion of Evolution for the Pope and His Scientists’ By Sidney W. Fox, Ph.D.”
The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine - “IT has been my intention, for several years past, to publish my thoughts upon religion; I am well aware of the difficulties that attend the subject, and from that consideration, had reserved it to a more advanced period of life. I intended it to be the last offering I should make to my fellow-citizens of all nations, and that at a time when the purity of the motive that induced me to it could not admit of a question, even by those who might disapprove the work.”
Why I Am Not a Christian : And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects by Bertrand Russell - “I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue”
The Book Your Church Doesn’t Want You to Read by Tim C. Leedom - A fascinating essay collection regarding fundamentalist beliefs and the value of free thought
Biblical Errancy: A Reference Guide by C. Dennis McKinsey - Extensive catalog of contradictions within the Bible
The Born Again Skeptic’s Guide To The Bible by Ruth Hurmence Green - “The Bible examined from a freethought perspective.”
Immorality of Christianity by G. James Stewart - “… A theological presentation on the moral principles of Christianity.”
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