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The titles below are links to brief essays and opinion pieces concerning religious history, the origin of Christian doctrine, Constitutional issues concerning church and state and other related, miscellaneous thoughts. 


Religious History

  • Religions of the Greco-Ancient World - a brief look at early Judaism, Greco-Roman religious beliefs and the Hellenist apocalpyticism that reshaped Judaism and provided the foundation for Christian philosophy.

  • Top Ten Creation Myths - How the universe began according to the mythical stories of ten different ancient cultures.

  • Who Do You Believe: Jesus or Paul? - Is salvation achieved through repentance and adherence to the Law as Jesus taught or through faith alone as Paul taught?

  • Comparing: Paul, Mark, Matthew, Luke & John - A look at how the New Testament narratives in Paul and the Gospels differ in important ways and how they interpret the life and death of Jesus according to different oral traditions and pre-Gospel writings of that time.

  • The Trinity - Thoughts of Robert Ingersoll and others about the contradictory nature of the Trinity and the Biblical arguments against it. 

  • Catholic Councils -  The Trinitarian doctrine of Christianity today was not settled until the late 5th Century C.E.

  • Contemporary Bibles - A list of the different versions of the Bible currently in use in America today. 

  • Books of the Old Testament - A list of the Books of the Old Testament with a brief summary of the information they contain.

  • Documentary Hypothesis - A brief overview of the hypothesis concerning the origin of Hebrew Testament documents.


Church and State

  • Foresaken Roots Critique - A critique of the redactions and errors made by the anonymous author of the viral email entitled "Forsaken Roots" in which he claims that "Revisionists have rewritten history to remove the truth about our country's Christian roots"

  • America: One Nation Under God - A review of the pamphlet by the same name written by the late Reverend D. James Kennedy of Coral Springs Ministry in which he asserted that the United States was founded on Christian Biblical principles and that nowhere in the Constitution do the words "separation of church and state" exit. 

  • Did You Know? - A response to an oft ciruculated email that makes a number of erroroeous claims about the founding of the United States that includes Christian myths about the separation of chruch and state, the secular nature of of our federal government and the argument that the courts are strangling religius freedoms

  • The Law is the Law - A response to an oft ciruculated email that epresses an erroneous Christian lament that the federal government and the courts are taking away our religious freedoms in America.

  • Is the US Constitution Based Upon the Ten Commandments? - A legendary but popular belief in the Christian community is that our laws derive directly from the Ten Commandsments. This paper addresses the question of whether the legend is based on fact or fiction.

  • The Founding Fathers Never Intended a Separation of Church and State - A Rebuttal - A rebuttal to the argument made by many Evangelical Fundamentalis ministers who eagerly point out that the U.S. Constitution does not anywhere contain the words, "separtion of church and state" nor did the Founding Fathers ever intended for the Constitution to infer such a concept.

  • Prayer in Public Schools - What the Supreme Court has really said .... yes students can pray, read their Bible, form religous clubs, etc in public schools regardless of what Fundmentalist Christians want you to believe.

  • The True Meaning of the Establishment Clause - Edward Tabash, ESQ explains the 1st Amendment, Establishment Clause from its historical origins.


Christianity and Science

 

  



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