Religious Bigotry

The illustration is "Pope Urban preaching the first Crusade" from the book "Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds" by Charles MacKay, 1841.

Religion, unlike skin colour, is a matter of choice, so criticism of others' religious beliefs is legitimate. The sites here go beyond that by substituting abuse for criticism or by being gratuitously offensive.

For the special case of religious idiocy called creationism, please click here.

See some answers to religious bigotry here.

Articles relevant to religion and religious bigotry.

• "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

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A.B.L.E - Association for Better Living and Education
About L. Ron Hubbard
Altar of Unholy Blasphemy
American Family Association
American Life League
American Pie and the Armageddon Bible Prophecy
America's Promise Ministries
Army of God
Be Wise as Serpents
Benny Hinn Ministries
Bible Believers - what Jesus is doing NOW
Bob Larson Ministries -- DO WHAT JESUS DID
Bridge Publications, Inc. publisher of L. Ron Hubbard's works, founder of Scientology Applied Religious Philosophy
Capitol Resource Institute
Chalcedon Foundation - The Bible, reformed theology, and Christian reconstruction applied to life
Chick Publications (Jack Chick)
Children of Yahweh
Christian City Church
Christian Coalition (Pat Robertson)
Christian Holocaust
Christian Reconstruction
Christian Research
Christians United for Responsible Enlightenment of Society
Christocracy
Citizens Commission on Human Rights
Citizens Commission on Human Rights (Australia, New Zealand, Oceania)
Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health by L. Ron Hubbard
Eagle Forum (Phyllis Schlafly)
European Institute of Protestant Studies (Ian Paisley)
Explicitly Christian Politics - National Reform Association
Exposing the Atheist
Fateh
Focus on the Family
Freedom Investigative Reporting in the Public Interest Home Page Published by the Church of Scientology Since 1968
Ganeshjii (Sai Baba)
God Hates Fags (Westboro Baptist Church) (Fred Phelps)
Good Morals
Gospel Answers (Arthur Daniels)
Gospel Broadcasting Association
Gospel Plow
The Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland
Hal Turner Show
Hallelujah Acres Present the Hallelujah Diet (George Malkmus)
Hezbollah
Hillsong Church
Hindu Unity - Soldiers of Hindutva! Awake Hindus!!
IaHUeH's Kingdom
Israel Identity and Jewish Issues
Jehovah's Witnesses: Watchtower Society Official Web Site
Jesus Christ is the Only Way to God
John Edward - Psychic
Kahane Website
Kingdom Identity Ministries
Klassen's Teachings (Ben Klassen)
Laptoplobbyist.com
Life Enterprises Unlimited - Love through the Holy Eucharist (Joel Wallach)
Maharishi Ayurveda Products
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Masada 2000 - History and Geography of Israel and Palestine. Also... Zionism, Refugees, PLO, Terrorism, Arab-Israeli Conflict
Mercy Seat Christian Church
Mission to Israel
Missionaries to the UNBORN
Nation of Islam Online
New Era Publications
Open - Bible Ministries
Operation Save America
Peter Shank : Talk Radio Host (Peter Shaenk ??)
Preterist Archive of Realized Eschatology
Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Race, America, and History
Religious Freedom Watch
The Rutherford Institute
Salt Shakers
Scientology
Scriptures for America Worldwide
Sinn Fein
Society for the Practical Establishment and Perpetuation of the TEN COMMANDMENTS
Society of St. Pius X
Traditional Catholic Information
Traditional Values Coalition
Trinity United Church of Christ
Violent Christians
Weisman Publications
White Camelia Knights of the Ku Klux Klan
Yahweh's Truth (James Wickstrom)