Persecution
 

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Authorities Assessed
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Early Christian History
What Jesus Believed
Who Founded Christianity?
Creation of Doctrine
Origin of Ideas & Practices
The Concept of Orthodoxy
Origin of the Priesthood
 
Maintaining Deceptions
Suppress Facts
Selecting Sources
Fabricating Records
Retrospective Prophesy
Ambiguous Authorities
Ignore Injunctions
Invent, Amend and Discard
Manipulate Language
 
Case Studies
Re-branding a Sky-God
Making One God out of Many
How Mary keeps her Virginity
Fabricating the Nativity Story
Managing Inconvenient Texts
 
Christianity & Science
Traditional Battlegrounds
Modern Battlegrounds
 
Rational Explanations
Religion in General
Christianity in Particular
Divine Human Beings
Ease of Creating Religions
 
Arguments for and Against
Popular Arguments
Philosophical Arguments
Moral Arguments
Miracles, Revelation & Faith
Practical Arguments
 
Record of Christianity
Social Issues
Persecution
Church & State
Abuse of Power
Human Rights
Attitudes to Sex
Science & Medicine
Violence & Warfare
Cultural Vandalism
Possible Explanations
Summing up
 
Continuing Damage
Religious Discrimination
Christian Discrimination
Moral Dangers
Abuse of Power
 
A Final Summing Up
 
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An apology for the Devil - it must be remembered that we have only heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
Samuel Butler (1835-1902), Notebooks

 

In this section we will review the role of Christianity in the history of persecution, both as persecuted and as persecutor.

 

  
   
 
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