A Pox* On All Their Houses, How Religious SCRIPTURE and Practices Support Intolerance, Violence, and Even War
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This book is about consequences of religion more than whether Christ rose from the dead (Krishna, Osiris, Attis of Phrygia, Dionysus, all of whom besides being born on December 25th from a virgin mother did "Resurrect"), or whether the verses of the Qur’an are exactly the words of Allah. It is more focused on how scriptures and writings have been used to harm, torture, fight or kill unbelievers.
Samuel Butler
Samuel Butler (1835–1902) was an English author whose turbulent upbringing would inspire one of his greatest works, The Way of All Flesh. Butler grew up in a volatile home with an overbearing father who was both mentally and physically abusive. He was eventually sent to boarding school and then St. John's College where he studied Classics. As a young adult, he lived in a parish and aspired to become a clergyman but had a sudden crisis of faith. He decided to travel the world and create new experiences fueling his literary career.
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A Pox* On All Their Houses, How Religious SCRIPTURE and Practices Support Intolerance, Violence, and Even War - Samuel Butler
A POX ON ALL THEIR HOUSES
How Religious SCRIPTURE and Practices Support Intolerance, Violence and Even War
by
Samuel Butler
Smashwords Edition
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A Pox on All Their Houses
Copyright © 2010 by Samuel Butler
ISBN: 978-0-9828898-2-4
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A POX ON ALL THEIR HOUSES.
How religious SCRIPTURE, practices and writings support cruelty, violence, hate and other questionable moral practices, even sexual abuse against children. Many have even gone to the extreme of war and genocide in the name of their preferred religion.
Book Cover by Oscar Sierra. The symbols are of four major religions-Christianity with the cross, Islam with the star and crescent, Judaism with the six pointed Star of David, and the symbol of Mormonism, the angel Moroni blowing the trumpet. The angel Moroni is also a symbol of Masonry. Joseph Smith, Jr. and his brother Hyrum Smith were both Master Masons.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
For editing help, Rosemary Zitek, Geoffrey West, Paula Friedman, and especially my wife, Karen, of whom I say She is the stuff that DREAMS are made of.
For book structural guidance, Gilda and Julio Aburto, and for research, Vicki Kieke.
High Appreciation and kudos is sent to all of the above.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Preface
Islam
Child Marriage in Islam
Old Testament
Jewish Traditional Religion
How About This for Hate? Genocide Advocated by the Talmud
Three Year Old Brides
Christianity (New Testament)
Short Review of Jesus, Interrupted
Christian Child Bride
Predator Priests Shuffled Around Globe
Mormonism and Violence
Joseph Smith and the Gold Plates
Offshoot of Church of Latter Day Saints Gone Astray
Buddha
Buddhist Nationalism and Religious Violence In Sri Lanka
Torture and Mutilation in the Dalai Lama’s Tibet
Epilogue
Religion Involved in the Violence of World War II?
A sheaf of letters blackmailing Woodrow Wilson and 60 million deaths
Gender Imbalance
The Ten Principles For a Global Rational Humanism
The Code for Global Ethics
CONCLUSION
About The Author
References
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PREFACE: You may feel very uncomfortable with the information this book presents. All I ask is that you keep an open mind as a seeker of truth and open to a change to some of your beliefs if you feel it is proper for you to do so. This book is about the consequences of religion more than whether Christ rose from the dead (Krishna, Mithras, Osiris, Attis of Phrygia, Dionysus, all of whom besides being born on December 25th from a virgin mother, died and were resurrected, except for Mithras - who ascended directly without dying!) or whether the text of the verses of the Qur’an correspond exactly to those revealed to Muhammad directly as the words of God, delivered to Muhammad through the angel Gabriel. It is more focused on how religious scriptures and writings have been misused to harm, torture or kill others who don’t believe, or used for justification to do what most rational persons would consider evil. Christopher Hitchens puts it not so mildly
as he claims he does when he says Religion poisons everything
, and Religion Kills
[2]
There was a 30 year war (1618-1648) over religion. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Years'_War
There are wars or conflicts between those who believe in their founder of their religion, but believe differently. In the Middle East, The Sunni’s and the Shia’s both treasure their belief in Muhammad, but they often bomb each other, because the other follows a different descendant of Muhammad, or some other different way of belief. The Inquisition (1231?1485? to 1835) was about different ways to believe in Jesus Christ and/or different interpretations of the Old or New Testament.
Religion is riddled with intolerance, hate, gender imbalance and therefore I say, it is OK to be a skeptic about religion, and in a balanced way say A POX ON ALL THEIR HOUSES.
A pox is a plague, indicating in general that all religions should be looked upon with a skeptical attitude, and especially forget about just going on faith
to believe the seemingly unbelievable.
If you find these revelations