http://www.askwhy.co.uk/index.php AskWhy! Books website on Christian and Jewish origins, history, faults, fallacies, and alternatives. Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:00:00 GMT http://www.askwhy.co.uk/thumb_awdonkey0.png http://www.askwhy.co.uk/index.php http://www.askwhy.co.uk/awOverviewPresentation.htm http://www.askwhy.co.uk/epistles/090pcohen.php More correspondence with Paul the born again Christian sectarian who again is uniquely in touch with God. http://www.askwhy.co.uk/epistles/090pcohen.php Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:00:00 GMT http://www.askwhy.co.uk/christianity/0860salvation.php For the Jew, obeying the law, being righteous, saved them. A young man asked how to inherit eternal life. Jesus said without obeying the law, and being poor, he could not be saved. Christ's own life showed salvation depended on doing something, loving others and not accumulating wealth. Paul thought the law was too hard. He dropped it, making it easier to get converts, and for Christianity to spread. Paul made salvation into the mystery of God being magically obliged to save the faithful just for professing their faith in Christ! http://www.askwhy.co.uk/christianity/0860salvation.php Sun, 17 Feb 2008 22:00:00 GMT http://www.askwhy.co.uk/truth/323Psychology.php People are not necessarily or even mainly rational in their choices. They adopt ideological belief systems, such as conservatism, that satisfy their psychology. Political choice is not merely a personal choice but is also a group choice, and group or social threats can also alter political choice. Those in such privileged positions have a motive not to want change. Why though are poor whites, poor blacks and poor hispanics conservative? The answer is fear. http://www.askwhy.co.uk/truth/323Psychology.php Tue, 05 Feb 2008 22:00:00 GMT http://www.askwhy.co.uk/truth/324Psychology.php UPDATE The Social Psychology of Christianity II on Christianity and mental illness is updated with a paragraph about Stalin's religious upbringing, and training as a priest. http://www.askwhy.co.uk/truth/324Psychology.php Fri, 25 Jan 2008 22:00:00 GMT http://www.askwhy.co.uk/awgoogets/index.php NEW Some Google gadgets from the AW! website. http://www.askwhy.co.uk/awgoogets/index.php Sun, 13 Jan 2008 22:00:00 GMT http://www.askwhy.co.uk/christianity/0160EsseneQ.php NEW The messianic hymns date to the end of the reign of Herod, when the Christian messiah was born. These hymns suggest that the Qumran community had identified the Jewish messiah with God and with the suffering servant before the Christian churches had done. The church simply used already existing Essene theology. http://www.askwhy.co.uk/christianity/0160EsseneQ.php Mon, 31 Dec 2007 22:00:00 GMT http://www.askwhy.co.uk/christianity/0163Menehem.php NEW The second beast of Revelation persuaded the whole world to worship the Roman empire. The Oracle of Hystaspes was being used as a vehicle to parody Augustus and the Roman empire as dragons opposed to the Son of God of the Christians. Essenes hated the Romans, yet the Essene leader, Menehem, was a "friend" of Herod. Odd? Not really because the Essenes were a secret organization. Menehem was a mole. Did the Essenes know about Roman propaganda? Menehem must have known of the poems eulogizing Augustus as a god and saviour, and been outraged by it. http://www.askwhy.co.uk/christianity/0163Menehem.php Mon, 31 Dec 2007 22:00:00 GMT http://www.askwhy.co.uk/truth/a10embodiedphilosophy.php Kant uses "pure practical reason" to present us with a pure philosophy of morality, but, like everyone else, uses metaphors derived from material experience to do it. Without realizing it, he ends up with the puritanical Christian assumptions he bagan with, but secularized. Cognitive studies contradict Kant's conclusions. Not only are they not universal, they are no more true than the initial Christian assumptions of a God-based morality. They are not true at all! Above all, Kant ignores all human feeling. http://www.askwhy.co.uk/truth/a10embodiedphilosophy.php Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:00:00 GMT http://www.askwhy.co.uk/truth/882YetMoreChristianLies.php The Christian and Jewish liars never cease lying. A film has been made with the title, "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed", by a man called Ben Stein. His film tries to make out there is an atheist conspiracy in the US against Christians. In the USA, faced with overbearing Christian intolerance, only a small percentage have the courage to say they are atheists. Yet this tiny minority of atheists, according to the film, is victimizing the 90-odd percent Judaeo-Christian majority! It is a case of the Nazi big lie method. It is Christians who are the oppressors, and this film shows it. http://www.askwhy.co.uk/truth/882YetMoreChristianLies.php Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:00:00 GMT http://www.askwhy.co.uk/truth/a00DineshDsouza.php Dinesh D'Souza is the latest Christian superstar apologist, and has been described as a scholar. D'Souza finds feeble arguments in favour of supernatural belief and even feebler ones against science, regurgitating the same oft-refuted lies as if they were new. Anyone with any moral principles would use their supposed scholarship to help the poor not to rob them. The rich perpetuate ignorance to keep their own advantages. Religion is the perfect scam for this. People pay to be kept poor, and voluntarily go around converting others into the sheep pen. http://www.askwhy.co.uk/truth/a00DineshDsouza.php Fri, 30 Nov 2007 22:00:00 GMT