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Overview I: History

Overview II: Origins

Overview III: Denominations

Overview IV: The Present

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History

Greece and the ancient world

Hatred for Ancient Greek culture

The persecuted Hellenes

Alexandria: its temples, its Great Library and Hypatia

More ancient temples destroyed and replaced: Roman and other

The Vatican cave was a Mithraeum: a temple of the Roman God Mithras

Celsus and his True Word

Rise of Christianity, fall of Rome

Conversion of the rest of Europe

Some brief glimpses

More intolerance: the early Church Councils, Crusades, Inquisition and Reformation

The Early Church Councils: murder, heresy and shaping future beliefs

Nestorian heresy: a closer look

The Church fathers

The Age of Ignorance

Crusades

Crusades against the Moslems and Jews

The Northern Crusades: against the non-Christians of Eastern Europe

Crusade against the Eastern Orthodox Church

Crusades against Christian heretics: Albigenses, Cathar and Waldensians

The Children's Crusade

The Inquisitions, witch hunts and torture

The First Inquisition

Torture

The Second or Spanish Inquisition

Tomas de Torquemada: Dominican monk, inquisitor, torturer

The witchcraft bull and further persecution of "witches"

Church reasoning in "witch" persecutions

Heretics

The Third or Roman Inquisition

Catholics and Protestants

Not sorry and will do it again

Protestants and the Reformation, witch hunts and torture

Women and children

Women

The Bible and Women

The Church and women

Are women human? - voting and debating needed for Christians to decide

The Original Sin and clergy against reducing pain during childbirth

Children

Mental abuse as a form of "spiritual instruction"

Physical abuse as a form of punishment

The Bible on beating children

Today: pious Christians OK with beating their kids

Americas, Africa, Asia and the Pacific

Americas

In the Christians' own words

Inquisition, slavery, and theft of land in the Americas

Some statistics on the death toll in South and Central America

Some statistics on the death toll of the Indian Nations of North America

Christianity leads to destruction of libraries and temples - again

About the peoples marked for Christian extermination

The Californian Indians

Africa and African Slavery

Inhumane treatment on capture

Inhumane treatment in the slave ships

Inhumane treatment upon arrival

Biblical justification

Churches and slavery

First to start and last to end enslavement of Africans

Religious reasons used to institute and uphold slavery

American Churches

Supporting slavery, antagonising the abolitionists

Who agitated for abolishing African slavery?

Christian apologetics: "the Ancients were worse"

Christian apologetics: the Moslems were just as bad

Christian apologetics: Africans participated in the slave trade

The brutal colonisation of the Congo

Asia

China

India

Japan

Sri Lanka

Thailand

Vietnam

The Pacific

Missions and colonialism

Catholics and Protestants

Anti-Semitism, prior to Nazism

Early Times

The Middle Ages

Orthodox Russia and the pogroms

"The Protocols of the (Learned) Elders of Zion"

Romany

Christianity and anti-Gypsyism

Nazism

Today

Fascism including Nazism

Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany was a very Christian country

Anti-Semitism in Church teachings

Racist and hate literature: written by Christian Nazis and clergy

Protestant and Catholic Churches supported Hitler and fascism

Statements by the clergy

Clergy approve Nazism and actively collaborate

Catholic and Protestant Churches helping Nazis hunt down Jews

The Protestant Churches

The Vatican and Catholic Churches

The Confessing Church

Individual Catholics on their own in opposing the State

Catholic and Protestant Churches helped in murder of people with disabilities

Protestant and Catholic Churches used forced labourers

Distorting the facts

"The Nazis persecuted Christianity and Christians"

"The Nazis executed German Christians who helped the Jews"

Further reading

Nazism in former Yugoslavia

The Catholic Ustashe

Bringing the Ustashe to power

Ustashe: Catholic Nazis including genocidal clergy

The Islamic Hanjar: Moslem Nazis

Death toll

Clergy invents and promotes race ideology

Vatican and communism unite to whitewash history after WWII

Unpunished

The Vatican and Fascism in the 20th century

Vatican complicity in the holocausts in Germany and Yugoslavia

Hitler's Pope: Pius XII and Fascism

Hoping to beatify Hitler's Pope

The Lateran Treaty with Fascist Italy under Pius XI

The Concordat with Nazi Germany

Endorsing Ustashe Croatia

Supporting other dictatorships

Spain and the rise of Catholic Fascist Franco

Slovakia under Catholic Nazi Tiso

Chile's Pinochet and the Vatican

Archbishop Stepinac - a war criminal beatified

Archbishop of the Ustashe, Nazi collaborator, supporter of forced conversions

The crimes and trial of Stepinac

Distorting history: molding the war criminal into a hero for beatification

The Vatican's Ratlines and Nazi funds: helping war criminals to escape justice

Distorting the facts

The Vatican's non-apology whilst blaming everyone else

Catholic contributions to anti-Semitism that inspired later Nazism

"Denouncing anti-Semitism"

Another non-apology

The incontrovertible facts

French Jewish children and the usual Vatican tactic of denial

Hiding the facts, yet commemorating Ustashe sites

Further Reading

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Origins

Pagan Origins

Influence on Biblical scripture, prayers, psalms, parables

Pre-Christian origins of Fall and Flood myths and the Ten Commandments

Heaven and Hell

Eastern influences

Zoroastrianism

Buddhism

Pre-Christian Symbolism

Crucifixion, the Cross and the Fish (Ichthus)

Mother and Son

Virgin Mother

Reverence for Mary

Models for the Christian Devil

Pre-Christian festivals, holy days and terms for God

Easter

Christmas

New Year's

The Epiphany and the Three Kings

Lent

St. Valentine's Day

Sunday

Logos

Christos and Chrestos

Dominus and Natali

Pre-Christian Saviour Gods and men

Osiris

Dionysus

Mithras

Attis

Apollonius of Tyana - a historic man

Pre-Christian rituals and concepts in Christianity

Baptism and Eucharist

Neither Zoroastrianism's Saoshyant nor Judaism's Messiah

Christmas Tree

Mithraic rituals in Catholicism and the rest of Christianity

More on pre-Christian rituals, Gods and gifted men

Unavoidable similarities leading to desperate excuses

Dionysus

Mithras

Apollonius

Flawed Arguments

Myth

Historic?

Nazareth, the Roman Census and Herod

Jesus' sayings and doings

Denial of historicity of Jesus

Jesus

Wasn't there a Jesus?

No Eyewitness Testimonies and accounts

Early Christians and Jesus' historicity

Further Reading

Early Christianity

Which books?

Differences between the current Judeo-Christian sects

Changes to the Judaic Canon

Church fathers and their idea of the Christian Canon

The Early Church Councils and changes to the Canon

Protestant Reformers and their views on the Canon

Early Christian Bibles, Gospels and other Scriptures

Other Gospels have a totally different story of Jesus

Different Bibles

The Q source

Early "Christian" sects and their beliefs

The earliest adherents, scriptures did not know of a resurrected Jesus

The Ebionites

The Gnostic Christians

More Christianities

Gnosticism and Mandaeism: influential pre-Christian religions of the region

The four canonical Gospels, the Acts and Paul's Epistles

Late arrival of the 4 Gospels

The Gospel manuscripts did not name the authors

The Four Gospels: not eye-witness accounts

The Pauline Epistles

The Apostles

Fiction

Apostles and the Zodiac

Why they were invented

Fictional martyrdom stories for fictional Twelve

NT and OT scholarship

Jesus and the New Testament

The Old Testament and the Middle East

The Bible and Prophecy unfulfilled

Deception and falsification

False relics of old saints and Jesus

Alleged fulfillment of Messianic Prophecy

"Persecuted by Rome" and more lies

The facts

Forged tales of persecution and mass martyrdom

The literature that exposed the martyr fraud

Only 2 general persecutions

The Decian persecution

The Diocletian persecution

More fictions: mass martyrdoms

The Acts (of the martyrs) and other forgeries

A vast apostasy, instead of many martyrs

Birth of the martyr-fiction tradition and the relic industry

Who did the persecuting? - The Codes of Theodosius and Justinian

Christian "improvements" on Rome

Children

Medical science and Unions

Christian morality versus that of ancient Rome

Gladiatorial Games

Blaming the Northeners for the fall of Rome

Lying about slavery

The Greco-Roman world

Christianity takes over Rome

Christianity, slavery and serfdom

Intelligent Design: a Fundamentalist Christian fraud

More little known facts

Scripture

In Germany, lawyers moved to have the Bible banned from school

Biblical Patriarchs: good rolemodels?

God causing genocide, as per the Bible

Jesus and his teachings

Biblical Criticism: immorality and errancy

Further Reading: atrocities in the Bible

Further Reading: errors, inconsistencies and absurdities in the Bible

Early Criticism of Christianity

The ethics of Hell

How can the omniscient and omnipotent God punish so many people?

One man's Hell is another man's Heaven

Unborn babies and unbaptised infants in Hell

Counter-apologetics

Links

Books

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Denominations

Saints

From long ago

Non-existent Saints

Saints who existed

Recently sainted or beatified

Fascists, Nazi-supporters, dictators and terrorists

Mother Teresa

Other rolemodels

Catholicism

Popes

Reading suggestions

Summary of the lives of some early Popes

Details from the lives of some early Popes

Recent Popes

Wrongs committed by all recent Popes

John Paul II

Ratzinger: Pope Benedict XVI

The Eastern Orthodox Church

Greek Church scandal: bribery, smuggling, fraud, drug dealing, sexual favours

Orthodox-Catholic relations today

The Pope's unwelcome visit to Orthodox Greece

Catholics amongst the Orthodox in the East: feared to be a Trojan horse

Protestantism

Martin Luther

On the disabled

On the peasants and their uprising against oppression

On women

On Jews

Luther wants Faith (blind belief) to destroy Reason

Calvin (Presbyterianism)

A few statements by John Calvin

Geneva under Calvin

Intolerance during Reformation, other famous Reformers

Enemies of the oppressed

More misogyny

Intolerant like their Catholic predecessors and counterparts

Modern Protestant Churches, including Fundamentalist, Evangelical Churches

Intolerance and Racism

Evangelical Christians with a following

Pat Robertson

Benny Hinn, Jerry Falwell, Billy Graham, and others

Seventh Day Adventists and Jehovah's Witnesses

Mormon Church / Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints (LDS)

Church abuse and polygamy long protected by 'religious freedom' cover

Mormon claims versus DNA evidence

Racist teachings of the LDS Church

Mormon (LDS) Church baptising dead Jewish people

Scripture: The Book of Mormon

Fundamentalist Mormon Church and terrorism

Intolerance between Christian denominations

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The Present

Abuse

Books on the history of abuse by clergy

Statistics and documentation on abuse, across all denominations

Why the Vatican protects offenders

Recent news of abuse by Catholic and Protestant, including Evangelical, clergy

Children

Adults

Priests

Nuns

Recent news of abuse cases in Orthodox Churches

Some glimpses of history

The Magdalene Laundries: slavery of women in Ireland, Scotland and England

The US

Global Evangelical project to hit the UK and Europe too!

Christian undertakings against gay people

Recent genocide

Americas: Canada

Africa: Rwanda

Australia: the Australian Aboriginals

Asia: Vietnam

Present-day genocide and cultural extermination

Americas

The New Tribes Mission (NTM) and their methods

NTM and Mennonite missions in South America

Africa

Tribal roundups in Africa

The Bayaka Pygmees

Imposing Christian morality: abstinence-only programs to "prevent" AIDS

Converted Africa plunged into hellish holy wars

Asia

The Akha

West Papua

The Batak of Palawan

Korea

China

India

Sri Lanka

Tibet

Nepal

Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia

Cambodia

Vietnam

Persians and Iran

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Support for those who have left Christianity

Choices

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Appendices

Constantine the Great - Rome's first Christian Emperor

Images of Churches and clergy involved in Nazism

Germany's Nazis

What is the Vatican Hiding?
The Vatican's Complicity in Genocide in Fascist Croatia - by Barry Lituchy

Saints and Martyrs

Pope Alexander VI

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