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Witch Hunts in the Western World: Persecution and Punishment from the Inquisition through the Salem Trials by Brian Pavlac
epub |eng | 2009-05-22 | Author:Brian Pavlac [Pavlac, Brian]

The Dccrcc of 1682 These efforts culminated in a royal decree in July 1682 that reformed the laws of France concerning witch hunting. It declared that "those who call themselves ...
( Category: Witchcraft July 31,2015 )
2000 Years of Disbelief by James A. Haugt
epub |eng | 2010-01-29 | Author:James A. Haugt [Haugt, James A.]

Writers "My parents never bound us to any church."-Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888), American novelist (Noyes) "We are always making God our accomplice so that we may legalize our own inequities. ...
( Category: General July 31,2015 )
Arguing for Atheism: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion by Robin Le Poidevin
mobi, pdf |eng | 2003-09-01 | Author:Robin Le Poidevin [Le Poidevin, Robin]

Something can be descriptively good, i.e. in our best interests, whether or not God wills it, and so in this sense is good independently of God's will. Of course, if ...
( Category: General July 31,2015 )
Religion and Magic in Ancient Egypt by Rosalie David
epub |eng | 2009-09-07 | Author:Rosalie David

THE ROYAL FAMILY AT AMARNA There has been speculation that Akhenaten’s cult grew out of his father’s own policy of identification with the sun’s disc and his personal deification; in ...
( Category: General July 26,2015 )
Tantra by Urban Hugh
epub |eng | | Author:Urban, Hugh

His concern is for the rest of he world, which he characterizes as humanity sunk in its ignorance. . . . Considering the far reaching crises of contemporary times, he ...
( Category: General July 20,2015 )
America's Prophet by Bruce Feiler
epub |eng | 2008-12-31 | Author:Bruce Feiler

ON A GRAY approach from Manhattan, the Statue of Liberty doesn’t quite stir the soul as the postcard images would suggest. Her mint color seems more chilly than star-spangled. She ...
( Category: General June 14,2015 )
Science and religion: a very short introduction by Thomas Dixon
epub |eng | 2008-10-01 | Author:Thomas Dixon [Dixon, Thomas]

13. Cartoons from Vanity Fair depicting Professor Thomas Huxley and Bishop Samuel Wilberforce, whose encounter in Oxford in 1860 became legendary that they had won the day. But by the ...
( Category: General June 13,2015 )
The Bible Code by Michael Drosnin
epub, pdf |eng | 1997-05-29 | Author:Michael Drosnin [Drosnin, Michael]

"Any human being in the area would be reduced to smoke and ashes; they would simply disappear. The incinerated population, now radioactive dust, would rise up into the mushroom cloud, ...
( Category: Old Testament June 12,2015 )
Gnostic Philosophy by Tobias Churton
epub |eng | 2011-04-19 | Author:Tobias Churton [Tobias Churton]

In fact, the first known mention of a lodge at Kilwinning comes from the late-sixteenth-century Schaw Statutes (issued on December 27, 1598). William Schaw, appointed Master of Works by James ...
( Category: Christianity June 3,2015 )
Zen Experience
mobi |eng | 2010-08-21 | Author:Thomas Hoover

* * * PART IV ZEN IN JAPAN . . . in which Ch'an is imported to Japan by traditional Buddhists disillusioned with the spiritual decadence of existing Japanese sects. ...
( Category: Philosophy May 30,2015 )
Why Do Catholics Eat Fish on Friday?: The Catholic Origin to Just About Everything by Michael P. Foley
epub, pdf |eng | 2005-11-29 | Author:Michael P. Foley [Foley, Michael P.]

MISCELLANEOUS Priest. Combining the black humor of the Irish with their peculiar line of reasoning is the Irish word for a fish-killing hammer. A “priest” in Ireland refers not only ...
( Category: General May 25,2015 )
Racing Toward Armageddon by Michael Baigent
epub |eng | 2009-05-07 | Author:Michael Baigent

Faithfully he brings true justice; he will neither waver, nor be crushed until true justice is established on earth. —ISAIAH 42:3–4 But who is “he” that Isaiah is speaking about? ...
( Category: General May 8,2015 )
Mormonism; A Life Under False Pretenses by Lee B Baker
epub |eng | 2012-04-22 | Author:Lee B Baker [Baker, Lee B]

The Book of Mormon—An Inspired, Invented, or Imitated Manuscript? One of the fundamental elements of my conversion to Mormonism in the late 1970s was a belief that the Book of ...
( Category: Christianity April 27,2015 )
The Dead Sea Scrolls Bible by Martin G. Abegg
epub |eng | 2012-02-04 | Author:Martin G. Abegg [Abegg, Martin G.]

541 Sing, O woman barren and1184 who never bore a child; burst into song, and shout for joy, and1185 you who were never in labor! For the children of the ...
( Category: Dead Sea Scrolls April 22,2015 )
One Nation, Under Gods by Manseau Peter
epub |eng | 2015-01-18 | Author:Manseau, Peter

A singular instance of forbearance, arising from the powerful influence of religious principles, is recorded in the history of the Caliphs. A slave one day during a repast, was so ...
( Category: General March 22,2015 )

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