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Authorities Assessed
Old Testament
New Testament
Apostolic Traditions
Church Fathers
Emperors
General Church Councils
Popes
Conclusions
 
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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I now incline to the view that the conversion of Europe to Christianity was one of the greatest disasters of history.
Margaret Knight (1903-1983), Christianity: The Debit Account

 

Churches frequently claim to support personal and civil liberties. In this section we review their traditional positions on these matters.

 

 
   
 
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