A Spell on All Their Houses, How Religious SCRIPTURE and Practices Support Intolerance, Violence and Even War. Includes Mythical and Outrageously FORGED Religious Origins

A SPELL ON ALL THEIR HOUSES

How Religious SCRIPTURE and Practices Support Intolerance, Violence and Even War.

Includes Mythical and Outrageously FORGED Religious Origins.

by

Samuel Butler

How religious SCRIPTURE, practices and writings support cruelty, violence, hate, murder and sometimes questionable moral practices, such as sexual abuse against children. Many have even gone headfast to the extreme of war and genocide in the name of their preferred religion. Some religions in their origins copied previous myths and performed outrageous forgery.

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A Spell on All Their Houses

Copyright 2011 by Samuel Butler

ISBN: 978-1-4580-0255-6

Cover Design by Oscar Sierra [email protected] (Costa Rica)

The White Dove of Peace, Spirituality, and Tranquility Gracefully appears from the Cosmos Magically Incanting Mankind’s Transformation to a more Humanistic and Loving and Peaceful Future.

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.

Library of Congress Control Number: 2011906005

Religion / Spirituality

Eusebius the first thoroughly dishonest historian of antiquity and Emperor Constantine Invent Christianity

Violence, Intolerance, and Hate in all Major Religions

Mythical and Forged Origins of Religion

Religious Fraud

The Ten Principles For a Global Rational Humanism

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CONTENTS

Acknowledgements and Some Quotes

Preface

Example of Religious Violence: A 30 year War

The Ten Principles For a Global Rational Humanism: The Code for Global Ethics

Introduction

How Christianity Was Invented

17 Year Advisor to the Pope Exposes Bible Fraud and Forgery

Why Did St. Paul Say That Women Should Not Speak in Church

Moses Commits Murder and Hides the Body

Islam

Child Marriage in Islam

Old Testament

Why Can’t I Own a Canadian?

Jewish Traditional Religion

How About This for Hate? Genocide Advocated by the Talmud

Three Year Old Brides

Christianity (New Testament)

They Murdered the Pope!

Short Review of Jesus, Interrupted

Christian Child Bride

Predator Priests Shuffled Around Globe

Sixteen Crucifixions Before Christ

Christ Never Existed

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

Religious Origins

Origins of Christianity

What do the Dead Sea Scrolls Say About Jesus?

Short Review of The Christ Conspiracy

The Origins of Islam

Who Wrote the Koran?

Founder of Mormonism

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 United States Was not in Any Sense, Founded on the Christian Religion

Conclusion

About The Author

References

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SOME QUOTES ABOUT RELIGION

More violence has occurred in the name of religion than for any other reason. Deepak Chopra in New York Times Bestseller The Book of Secrets.

Religion is something we can perhaps do without. —Dalai Lama From his book Ethics for the New Millennium

He also said: This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. Dalai Lama

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians, they are not Christlike. Mahatma Gandhi

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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, Julio Abustos and Gilda Aburto, and for research, Vicky Kieke.

High Appreciation and kudos is sent to all of the above.

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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]. Included are some religious cover-ups such as the invention of Christianity, based upon numerous previous myths and outrageous forgeries accomplished around and after 325 A.D. for political purposes ordered by Emperor Constantine and accomplished by his friend Eusebius (Bishop of Caesarea in Palestine) who has been described as the first thoroughly dishonest historian of antiquity. Destruction of previous conflicting documents and edifices followed, including the destruction of the Great Library of Alexandria.

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EXAMPLE OF RELIGIOUS VIOLENCE: A 30-YEAR WAR:

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.

Religions are 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 SPELL ON ALL THEIR HOUSES. A SPELL used in the sense of a magical charm or incantation leading to religious transformation away from their dogmas to a more humanistic and positive future.

If you find these revelations shocking and/or revealing, don’t be like some who say "If