A growing body of scholarly research reveals a convoluted pattern of religious failure in which atheism and the nonreligious played little role. Source: The Great Scandal: Christianity’s Role in the Rise of the Nazis
The conventional understanding of Marxism as doggedly anti-religious is wrong. In fact, as the philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre argued, Christianity and Marxism have at times inspired in humanity a radical sense of hope to build a more just world. Source: This Christmas, Radical Christianity and Marxism Can Inspire Us to Build a Better World This is … Continue reading A new sentimental Marx’s resurrection as a ‘true (Hegelian?) Christian’…This Christmas, Radical Christianity and Marxism Can Inspire Us to Build a Better World
Update: One should cite the works of Eisenman here: a link to his work and many others: http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/jesus/roberteisenman.html Christianity and the Roman Emperors + The Triadic savior supermeme Two posts collated, from redfortyeight.com I zipped through these books at high speed, and found them very compelling, but am unable to assess such a complex mass … Continue reading Reposts: …//Christianity and the Roman Emperors + The Triadic savior supermeme
These critiques of Christianity are essential and important but in my experience it is easy to miss something. Secular humanism needs its critique, but the object is not to turn everyone into Flatlanders. Christians don’t understand their own religion, but secular humanists don’t under it either… For example, the work of Gurdjieff in his All … Continue reading The triadic savior supermeme…//Christianity and the Roman Emperors
Creating Christianity: A Weapon of Ancient Rome: Davis Creating Christ: How Roman Emperors invented Christianity: Valiant, et a. Caesar’s Messiah: The Roman Conspiracy to Invent Jesus: Atwill two more: The Jesus Cult: 2000 Years of the Last Days: Conner Paulianity: Identifying Christianity’s False Apostle : Farrell
I am speedreading a whole set of books like this one cited. Correct assessment is difficult, but there is at a minimum a component of history here relevant to the complex, almost unknowable history of Christianity’s beginnings… Exhaustively annotated and illustrated, this explosive work of history unearths clues that finally demonstrate the truth about one … Continue reading Creating Christ: How Roman Emperors Invented Christianity eBook : Valliant, James S., Fahy, C. W.: Books
If you were searching for an animal-friendly religion, Christianity probably wouldn’t be your first choice. You’d likely select Jainism, Buddhism or Source: In Search of a Vegan Christianity – CounterPunch.org
1848+: The End(s) of History 