Religion

Religion, unlike skin colour, is a matter of choice, so criticism of others' religious beliefs is legitimate. The sites here provide some answers to the religious bigotry listed at The Millenium Project.

Articles about religion from The Millenium Project:

• "Blasphemy" comes before "Science" in the dictionary
• Bogus Challenges
• Creation/Evolution Debate
• Creation/Evolution Debate - Part 1
• Creation/Evolution Debate - Part 2
• Creation/Evolution Debate - Part 3
• Earthquakes and God
• Faith healer? Fraud!
• Ian Plimer was right. They do tell lies for God
• Literature v Literalism
• Polite request to creationists
• Someone gets upset
• Why am I a skeptic?

Some articles by other people.

• An Agnostic's Apology (Sir Leslie Stephen)
• Am I An Atheist Or An Agnostic? (Bertrand Russell)
• Among the Believers - a night out with Benny Hinn (John Sweatman)
• The Antichrist (Friedrich Nietzsche [translation by H.L. Mencken])
• A Free Man's Worship (Bertrand Russell)
• Has Religion Made Useful Contributions to Civilization? (Bertrand Russell)
• A Letter Concerning Toleration (John Locke)
• Memorial Service - Where is the grave-yard of dead gods? (H.L. Mencken)
• The Necessity Of Atheism (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
• Of Miracles (David Hume)
• Of Miracles and Their Uses (Thomas Hobbes)
• Of Religion (Thomas Hobbes)
• On the Value of Scepticism (Bertrand Russell)
• An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish (Bertrand Russell)
• The Skepticism of Believers (Sir Leslie Stephen)
• Theology and Falsification (Antony Flew)
• What is an Agnostic? (Bertrand Russell)
• What Is the Soul? (Bertrand Russell)
• Why I Am A Rationalist (Bertrand Russell)
• Why I Am an Unbeliever (Carl Van Doren)
• Why I Am Not A Christian (Bertrand Russell)

books about religion and its effects.

• The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine
• Atheism : The Case Against God by George H. Smith
• Atheist Manifesto : The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam by Michel Onfray
• Australian Skeptics 2005 Convention DVD by Australian Skeptics
• Australian Skeptics 2006 Convention DVD by Australian Skeptics
• Bare-faced messiah : the true story of L. Ron Hubbard by Russell Miller
• Breaking the Spell : Religion as a Natural Phenomenon by Daniel C. Dennett
• Bullshit! Season 1 DVD by Penn & Teller
• Bullshit! Season 2 DVD by Penn & Teller
• Bullshit! Season 3 DVD by Penn & Teller
• Bullshit! Season 4 DVD by Penn & Teller
• The Caged Virgin : An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
• Christian Science by Mark Twain
• The Comedy of Dante Alighieri the Florentine (Hell) by Dorothy L. Sayers
• The Comedy of Dante Alighieri the Florentine (Paradise) by Dorothy L. Sayers
• The Comedy of Dante Alighieri the Florentine (Purgatory) by Dorothy L. Sayers
• Conspiracy : How the Paranoid Style Flourishes and Where It Comes From by Daniel Pipes
• Creationism's Upside-Down Pyramid : How Science Refutes Fundamentalism by Lee Tiffin
• Crisis of Conscience by Raymond Franz
• Cults in Our Midst by Margaret Thaler Singer and Janja Lalich
• Denying History : Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It by Michael Shermer, Alex Grobman and Arthur Hertzberg
• Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds by Charles MacKay
• The Faith Healers by James Randi
• Finding Darwin's God by Kenneth Miller
• The Five Gospels : What Did Jesus Really Say? The Search for the AUTHENTIC Words of Jesus by Robert W. Funk
• Free Expression Is No Offence by Lisa Appignanesi (Editor)
• The Future of an Illusion by Sigmund Freud
• God : The Failed Hypothesis. How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist by Victor Stenger
• The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
• God Is Not Great : How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens
• Goddess Unmasked : The Rise of Neopagan Feminist Spirituality by Philip G. Davis
• Gulliver's Travels by Jonathon Swift
• H.L. Mencken on Religion by H. L. Mencken (Author) and S. T. Joshi (Editor)
• The Healing Revelations of Mary Baker Eddy : The Rise and Fall of Christian Science by Martin Gardner
• The Hidden Hand : Middle East Fears of Conspiracy by Daniel Pipes
• How We Believe : The Search for God in an Age of Science by Michael Shermer
• The Human Question by Hervey Peoples
• In Pursuit of Satan : The Police and the Occult by Robert D. Hicks
• In the Path of God : Islam and Political Power by Daniel Pipes
• Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
• Jesus for the Non Religious by John Shelby Spong
• L. Ron Hubbard : Messiah or Madman? by Bent Corydon
• Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris
• Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes
• The Long Shadow : Culture and Politics in the Middle East by Daniel Pipes
• Militant Islam Reaches America by Daniel Pipes
• Miniatures : Views of Islamic and Middle Eastern Politics by Daniel Pipes
• Miracle Mongers and Their Methods by Harry Houdini
• Misquoting Jesus : The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why by Bart D. Ehrman
• A Modest Proposal and Other Satires by Jonathan Swift
• The Myth of Islamic Tolerance by Robert Spencer (Editor)
• The Natural History of Religion by David Hume
• Nothing : Something to Believe in by Nica Lalli
• A Piece of Blue Sky : Scientology, Dianetics and L. Ron Hubbard Exposed by Jon Atack and Russell Miller
• The Political Teachings of Jesus by Tod Lindberg
• The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades) by Robert Spencer
• The Portable Atheist : Essential readings for the unbeliever by Christopher Hitchens (Editor)
• The Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus
• The Reasonableness of Christianity As Delivered in the Scriptures by John Locke
• Religion and the Racist Right: The Origins of the Christian Identity Movement by Michael Barkun
• The Rushdie Affair : The Novel, the Ayatollah, and the West by Daniel Pipes
• The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
• The Science of Good and Evil by Micheal Shermer
• Science Versus Religion by Tad S. Clements
• Second Mencken Chrestomathy by H. L. Mencken
• Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast : The Evolutionary Origins of Belief by Lewis Wolpert
• Slave Soldiers and Islam : The Genesis of a Military System by Daniel Pipes
• South Park : The Hits Volume 1 by Trey Parker and Matt Stone
• Spinoza : Theological-Political Treatise by Jonathan Israel and Michael Silverthorne (Eds)
• The Structure of Evolutionary Theory by Stephen Jay Gould
• Tom Cruise : An Unauthorized Biography by Andrew Morton
• The Trouble with Science by Robin Dunbar
• The Varieties of Scientific Experience : A Personal View of the Search for God by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan
• Who Wrote the Gospels? by Randel McCraw Helms
• Why I Am an Agnostic and Other Essays by Clarence Darrow
• Why I Am an Atheist : Including a History of Materialism by Madalyn O'Hair

Books with reviews:

• The Case for a Creator by Lee Strobel
• The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel
• The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown
• The End of Faith : Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris
• God : The Interview by Terry Lane
• Has Science Found God? The Latest Results in the Search for Purpose in the Universe by Victor Stenger
• The Root of All Evil? by Richard Dawkins (TV program)
• Science and Religion : Are They Compatible? by Paul Kurtz, Barry Karr and Ranjit Sandhu (Editors)
• The Sins of Scripture by John Shelby Spong

Books relating to other categories can be found here.

There are sites listed in this category.

Amnesty International

Amnesty International Australia

Apologetics Research Resources on Religious Cults, Sects, Religions, Doctrines, Etc.

"This site offers information that a) helps equip Christians to logically present and defend the Christian faith, and that b) encourages Christians and non-Christians to understand, evaluate and compare various religious claims"

The Atheist's Guide to Religion

"This website is dedicated to people everywhere who are trying to break the iron grip that religion exerts on their day to day lives. This is not an anti-religious rant. There would be no point to that, because religion, just like all of us, is a natural result of evolution".

The Australian Constitution - Section 116

"The Commonwealth shall not make any law for establishing any religion, or for imposing any religious observance, or for prohibiting the free exercise of any religion, and no religious test shall be required as a qualification for any office or public trust under the Commonwealth".

The Authorized King James Version Bible

Where better to find out what is really in the Bible than to look at the book itself?

The Bible Code (Dave Thomas)

The Book of Common Prayer

The Book of Common Prayer is one of the major works of English literature. Since its introduction in the mid-1500's it has exerted enormous influence on the religious and literary lives of all who speak the English language.

Children's Healthcare Is a Legal Duty (CHILD, Inc.)

Children's Healthcare Is a Legal Duty (CHILD, Inc.) is a non-profit national membership organization established in 1983 to protect children from abusive religious and cultural practices, especially religion-based medical neglect. CHILD opposes religious exemptions from duties of care for children.

Committee to Defend Women's Rights in the Middle East

Current Issues in Alternative Medicine

CINAM is a Christian based information and resource organization which seeks to educate the church as well as the wider audience of health consumers about issues which occur with “alternative” and other fringe health practices. CINAM evaluates alternative health practices, products, and promoters, considering both science and the spiritual / philosophical issues. Of particular interest is mis- information, quackery, health fraud, and spiritual world view.

Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability

"ECFA is an accreditation agency dedicated to helping Christian ministries earn the public’s trust through adherence to seven Standards of Responsible Stewardship"

Institute for the Secularisation of Islamic Society

"The Institute for the Secularisation of Islamic Society (ISIS) has been formed to promote the ideas of rationalism, secularism, democracy and human rights within Islamic society".

Judaism 101

"Judaism 101 is an online encyclopedia of Judaism, covering Jewish beliefs, people, places, things, language, scripture, holidays, practices and customs"

Lisa McPherson : The Clearwater Police Department Files (Kristi Wachter)

Lisa McPherson, a Dallas native, a line dancing enthusiast, and a dedicated Scientologist for most of her adult life, died on December 5, 1995, after 17 days in the custody of the Church of Scientology. She was 36 years old. This site presents the information collected by the Clearwater Police Department in their investigation of Lisa's death.

MinistryWatch

MinistryWatch is an online database with profiles on more than 400 of the largest church and parachurch ministries in the United States. It is also a place where you can learn about how to be a "responsible giver".

Narconon Exposed

Narconon is an international drug rehabilitation organisation which claims a presence in 26 countries around the world. This website offers a critical examination of Narconon's claims, contrasting them with the strong body of opposing evidence.

Operation Clambake - The Inner Secrets Of Scientology (Andreas Heldal-Lund)

Pharyngula (PZ Myers)

Rationalist Society of Australia

Religious Tolerance

"No peace among the nations without peace among the religions. No peace among religions without dialogue between the religions. No dialogue between the religions without investigation of the foundation of the religions." Hans Küng

Ron the Nut

The "clearing house" for factual information about the raving, lying, lunatic sociopath who fabricated Scientology® and Dianetics®.

Science and Religion

Scientology - the Cult of Eternal Litigation

Scientology and Dianetics - Tax-exempt Child Abuse and Neglect

Scientology associated deaths (Mike Gormez)

The Scientology Comparative Theology Page (Perry Scott)

"This website explores the beliefs and practices of Scientology, then compares those beliefs and practices to those of Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and Buddhism"

Scientology Kills

Scientology Celebrities & More--Spreading Entheta Since 1997

Scientology Lies (Kristi Wachter)

"I think Scientology is breaking the law and hurting people, and I want them to stop".

Simon Wiesenthal Center

The Skeptical Web

The Skeptic's Annotated Bible (Steve Wells)

One form of religious bigotry is fundamentalism, or a belief in the inerrancy of the literal Bible. This site points out the inconsistencies and contradictions in the Bible and also highlights the parts that the true believers would rather not talk about.

Stripping the Gurus (Geoffrey Falk)

"Find out what reportedly goes on behind the scenes in even the best of our world's spiritual communities"

Suppressive Person Defense League (Gerry Armstrong)

"to expose and elucidate the Scientology enterprise's Suppressive Person Doctrine, to defend Suppressive Persons, to unite them against this pernicious doctrine and its Scientologist proponents, and to participate in the process of eliminating this doctrine"

The Tolerance Project

A web project of the Southern Poverty Law Center, Tolerance.org encourages people from all walks of life to "fight hate and promote tolerance."

The Trinity Foundation

The Truth About Scientology (Kristi Wachter)

"If you're a Scientologist or if you're interested in the technology of Scientology but have some concerns about outpoints within the Church of Scientology, this site is intended for you".

U.S. Constitution - Bill of Rights

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

The Unbound Bible

The Unbound Bible is a collection of searchable Bibles consisting of: 10 English versions including the NASB, Greek and Hebrew Versions (the original Bible languages), 4 ancient versions, 42 versions in other languages

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

The Vatican

If you want to know what the Catholic Church thinks, ask the experts.

Watchtower Information Service

The Watchtower Society and Medical Quackery

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