The Nature of Agnosticism Part 5

 This is going to be mainly about sharing resources that I view as troublesome with respect to Abrahamic religions. 

General:

1. 10 Things that Make No Sense about Christianity...#4 will BLOW YOUR MIND! (sorry I couldn't resist)
2. Politics is Destroying Christianity

Manipulating an Audience:

1. My Old Pastor Grooms his Congregation to be Sheep | Telling a Church how to Vote, Part 1
2. Onward Christian Soldiers! | Telling a Church how to Vote, Part 2
3. My Old Pastor's Vision for American Theocracy | Telling a Church how to Vote, Part3
4. Training Christians to be Belligerent | How a Pastor Radicalizes His Congregation, Pt 1
5. Liars, Witches, and Windbags | Why Christianity Can't Excuse Itself from Greg Locke, Part 1 of 2
6. The Inherent Danger of Christianity | Why Christianity Can't Excuse Itself from Greg Locke (pt 2/2)
7. TheSearch for the True Christian
8. YouPut Your Faith in People Instead of God
9. The Hate Preachers: Bigotry and Fearmongering by Extremist Christian "Leaders"
10. How Young Living Created a Religion to Sell Essential Oils
11. The Cult I almost Joined: You Living Essential Oils
12. How MLM’s Use Religion to Manipulate You
13. Church Services are Designed to Influence you: Heres How
14. Influential new age guru encounters Jesus 
15. Dark world of New Age gurus
16. The strange world of Breatharianism
17. Hill song hell
18. TV’s scandalous Christian family 
19. The million dollar preacher with a weight loss cult
20. The ancient demons behind the gay movement 
21. The scandalous downfall of Justin Bieber pastor 
22. The cult of Scientology 
23. The scandalous life of pastor Ted Haggard
24. The dark world of mega churches
25. People believe in Christianity and conspiracy theories for the same reasons - Cynane Shay
26. Can Christianity Save The World?
27. They’re LYING About Morality Coming From GOD | Dr. Richard Carrier
28. The Origins of Satan, Hell & Demons || Derreck Bennett
29. The Myth of Persecution: How Early Christians Invented a Story of Martyrdom | Candida Moss PhD
30. Professor Dave Presents: Exorcism Priest Exposed
31. I took a Christian class about atheism. It was worse than I expected.
32. Is the Church Responsible for Western Advancements? - Richard Carrier, PhD - RE: @Jordan B Peterson
33. Stealing Reason: Christianity’s Theft of Human Values • Patrick Morrow
34. The Armor of God is Stupid
35. Debunking Prophets Pt.1
36. Debunking Prophets Pt.2
37. commanded to love | performing false emotions for tyrants [cc]
38. creating sickness | recovering from religion [cc]
39. degrading love — part one | how religions distort 'love' [cc]
40. degrading love — part two | how religions distort 'love' [cc]
41. How Christians Pretend They're Being Picked On
42. Fear of the Devil: Paranoia and Panic by the "Divinely Protected"
43. What Would Satan Do: Religion, Moral Panic, and the Devils in the Dark (with Lucien Greaves)

 

Ridiculous Apologetics

1. Arguments for God are Just an Excuse for BLIND FAITH (according to a Christian)
2. A Pastor Trains Christians to Misunderstand Why "The Lost" Won't Come to Church
3. Are Christianity and Atheism Just "Different Worldviews?"
4. The Death of Christian Apologetics
5. Everything WRONG With Christian Apologetics
6. The Gospels Are Not Histories | Dr. Richard C Miller
7. Presuppositionalism Destroyed Like You've Never Seen! | Dr. Alex Malpass
8. PragerU & Stephen Meyer - Broken Records, Double Standards, & Actual Indoctrination | Reacteria
9. The Theft of Our Values
10. PragerU & Stephen Meyer - Broken Records, Double Standards, & Actual Indoctrination | Reacteria
11. Exposing Discovery Institute
12. Kalam Cosmological Argument 2.Physicists and Philosophers strike back
13. The Gospels Are Historical Fiction - Pay Attention Apologist! | Dennis R. MacDonald PhD
14. Ehrman vs Craig: Evidence for Resurrection
15. Logic Doesn't Need God - Responding to James Anderson: James Anderson Divine Conceptualism
16. How Capturing Christianity Misrepresents the History of Science
17. Physicists & Philosophers reply to the Kalam Cosmological Argument featuring Penrose, Hawking, Guth
18. The Collapse of the Moral Argument for God
19. The Argument from Miracles
20. Why won't God heal amputees?
21. "You Can't Understand God, His Ways Are Higher!" | When Christians Respond (Episode 4)
22. The Inherent Evasiveness of Apologetics
23. Animal Suffering is Overwhelming Evidence Against God
24. Paul Draper's Case for Naturalism
25. Debate: Did Jesus Rise Bodily from the Dead? (Arif Ahmed vs Gary Habermas)
26. Why God Plays Hide and Seek (response to Inspiring Philosophy)
27. Calmly Destroying Christian Apologists with Science for an Hour
28. Your Deconstruction Story Belongs to You | Belief It Or Not
29. How Christianity Attacks the Idea of Truth | A Response to My Old Pastor
30. How Christianity Warped My Thinking

Ridiculous Theology

1. Pastors and Rich People: The Ultimate Love Story | Belief It Or Not
2. Meet The Real God of The Bible | Francesca Stavrakopoulou PhD
3. Who Wrote The Gospels In The New Testament? Robyn Faith Walsh PhD
4. The Bible With And Without Jesus - Dr. Amy-Jill Levine
5. The Problem of Hell: Raymond Bradley vs. William Lane Craig (Debate)
6. Why Atheists Reject Biblical Prophecies
7. The Deception Dilemma: Is God's Creation Set Up to Fail?
8. So, Did God Create Evil Or Not? A Deep Dive Into Isaiah 45:7 And Beyond
9. Why Would God Only Give Some People A Gift Of Faith?
10. How Christians Just Make Stuff up About Hell
11. 1. Arif Ahmed, On Miracles
12. The Thing About Christian Morality | Belief It Or Not
13. Pastors Are Excited About Gaza | Belief It Or Not
14. Jesus Sacrificing Himself Makes No Sense (Inspiring Philosophy Response)

Problematic Internal Dynamics and Origins

1. How Christians Pretend to be Okay with Doubt
2. Shocking Comparison of Jesus and Greco-Roman Myths
3. Greco-Roman Origins of Christianity | Robyn Faith Walsh
4. The SHOCKING Origins of Jesus MIRACLES | MythVision Documentary
5. Are There Pagan Parallels To Jesus? YES CHRISTIAN APOLOGISTS | Dr. Richard C. Miller
6. The Aryan Jesus in Nazi Germany: The Bible and the Holocaust
7. Who Wrote The Bible? Contradictions In The Torah with Professor Joel Baden
8. Mithraic Origins of Christianity
9. Peter J Williams vs Bart Ehrman • The story of Jesus: Are the Gospels historically reliable?
10. Ehrman vs Wallace - Can We Trust the Text of the NT?
11. Legends, Fictions, and Manuscripts that Illustrate Christ's Story
12. The History of Heaven and Hell - St Luke's Episcopal Church Interview
13. The Incoherence of God (pt. I)
14. The Incoherence of God (pt. II & III)
15. The Argument from Biblical Confusion
16. God's Mental Health Is Abysmal - 20 Verses, 20 Examples
17. The Problems With Paradise: 7 Reasons Why Heaven Fails
18. Jesus Sacrificing Himself Makes No Sense (Inspiring Philosophy Response)
19. Commanded To Love: A Paradoxical Demand
20. God’s Emotions Are A Really Big Problem!
21. How Christians Try to Explain Away the Unforgivable Sin
22. Saved for having the right beliefs?
23. God's Personality Change?
24. How the Bible Supports Slavery
25. God's Hypocrisy: The Case Against Objective Morality
26. Atheist Debates - Appeals to Personal Experience
27. A History of Christian Schism
28. The Church Covered Up The TRUE ORIGINS of Christianity | MythVision Documentary
29. How Was the Bible Canonized?
30. Why the Gospels are Myth | Richard Carrier
31. The Book of Acts Is FAKE History | Dr. Richard Carrier
32. The Bible and Plagiarism: Repurposing the Stories of Old
33. How the New Testament Was CREATED | Bart Ehrman and James Tabor
34. Apocalypses and Apocalypticism
35. No Longer Atheist: an analysis of Ayaan Hirsi Ali

 

Christian Zionism

1. What Is the Israel Lobby and What Does it Do?
2. John Mearsheimer - Changes in the Israel Lobby
3. Starr Forum: The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy
4. What does "The Israel Lobby - US" documentary reveal about the lobby inAmerica? - Ali Abunimah
5. Onward,Christian Zionists
6. Stephen Sizer: The Bible, Israel, and the Church
7. The Israel Lobby: What Everyone Needs to Know - Walter L. Hixson
8. Palestinians Confronting the Giant of Christian Zionism - Alex Awad
9. Christian Zionism & Settler Colonialism - Reverend Don Wagner
10. Stephen Sizer - Christian Support for the State of Israel: Is It Biblical? (2/4)
11. Christian Zionism - Road-map to Armageddon?
12. The Book of Revelation and the End of the World: Are the Signs Now Being Fulfilled?
13. Expecting Armageddon: What Does The Book of Revelation Reveal?
14. Is the Christ of Revelation Out for Blood?
15. Why is the Book of Revelation in the Bible?
16. Is the God of Revelation the Same as the God of Jesus?
17. Expecting Armageddon: What Does the Book of Revelation Reveal?
18. Thomas Getman: When and How Did Evangelicals Become Zionists?

 

Christian Nationalism

1. The Threat of “National Conservatism”
2. Was George Washington Religious?
3. America is Not a Christian Nation
4. Western values are based on judeo christian values?
5. pinker responds to peterson on shapiros criticism
6. appropriating morality | how ‘the Judeo-Christian tradition’ takes false credit
7. Western Civilization is Based on Judeo-Christian Values — Debunked
8. The Sordid History of the Religious Right & Rise of Christian Nationalism
9. How Evangelicals became Republicans
10. The cult of American Christian Nationalism
11. How Conservatives Co-Opted Christianity
12. The Evangelicals: The Real Origins of the Religious Right, and Why It Matters
13. Christian Nationalists are Preparing for War: a Conversation with Brad Onishi
14. American Crusade: How the Supreme Court is Weaponizing Religious Freedom (with Andrew Seidel)
15. Christian Jihad: A New Report on the Capitol Insurrection
16. Jesus & John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
17. Power & Panic: The Last Days for Christian Nationalism
18. Two Wolves of Christian Nationalism
19. Christian Nationalism and the Borders of Political Community
20. Countering Christian Nationalism with Dr. Dan Durbin
21. The True Religious Aims Of The Founding Fathers | The Hidden Faith Of The Founding Fathers | Parable
22. American Holocaust: The Destruction of America’s Native Peoples
23. Idaho: Hotbed of Christian nationalism
24. Christian Nationalism’s Growing Security Threat
25. Inspiring Philosophy Claims Christianity Doesn’t Cause Christian Nationalism | Pt 1: The Unchurched
26. How Christians Cope with the Mediocrity of Their Own Religion
27. Inspiring Philosophy’s Whitewashed History of Missionaries | IP & Christian Nationalism, Part 2
28. Christian Nationalism IS THE EXACT SAME THING as White Christian Nationalism!
29. How to combat Christian nationalism
30. Confronting Christian Nationalism in Your Congregation
31. Southern Poverty Law Center confronts Christian nationalism
32. White Christian Nationalism and the Capitol Riot: How did we get here and what comes next?
33. What does Christian Nationalism have to do with democracy?
34. Deliver us from religious privilege
35. Manifest Destiny | American History Flipped Classroom
36. How the USA Inspired the Nazis — From Manifest Destiny to Lebensraum
37. They Don’t Actually Want A Christian Nation | Belief It Or Not
38. The Christian Persecution Complex
39. Christianity has a Complex!
40. The Gospel of Apartheid — Professor Alec Ryrie
41. Two Kingdoms in the Third Reich — Professor Alec Ryrie
42. What Did the Faith Community Stand For? Doctrines and Deeds in Nazi Europe
43. Hector Avalos • Religion & Violence
44. The Vatican and the Third Reich: an Unholy Alliance
45. Martin Luther and Anti-Semitism
46. “The Aryan Jesus in Nazi Germany: The Bible and the Holocaust”
47. Rebecca Carter-Chand, “The German Churches, Nazi Germany, and the Holocaust,” March 30,2023
48. Flag and Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy
49. From Russia with Evil: The Philosophy of Alexander Dugin
50. The Ideology of Putin’s Russia
51. How The Holocaust Happened
52. ThePsychology of Racism in Jim Crow America
53. The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism is Un-American
54. WTF is Christian Nationalism?
55. Dr. Ericksen - Complicity in the Holocaust
56. Is Christian Nationalism Unamerican?
57. The Hate Preachers: Bigotry and Fearmongering by Extremist Christian "Leaders"
58. GOD & COUNTRY: Dictators, Democracy, and the New Documentary on Christian Nationalism
59. American Idolatry: A Christian Against Christian Nationalism (with Andrew Whitehead)
60. How "Sound of Freedom" Cheats the Children: with Damion Moore & Lynn Packer / American Crime Journal
61. Sound of Freedom and the Shape of Modern Propaganda
62. The Right-Wing War on Education
63. The Rabbit Hole of Conservative Kids' Books | Propaganda Deep Dive
64. What the Hell is Wrong with Texas?
65. The QAnon Rabbit Hole
66. American Crusade: How the Supreme Court is Weaponizing Religious Freedom (with Andrew Seidel)
67. Christian Jihad: A New Report on the Capitol Insurrection
68. Power & Panic: The Last Days for Christian Nationalism
69. Attacked From Within: The Assault on State/Church Separation (with Rachel Laser)
70. The Power Worshippers: The Rise of Religious Nationalism (with Katherine Stewart)
71. Believers Don't Want to Know - Politics
72. The Right-Wing War on Education
73. How PragerU Infiltrated Public Schools
74. Countdown to After America: Russia & the Threat to American Democracy w/ Alexander Motyl
75. Countdown to After America: The Heart of US Extremism with Jason Van Tatenhove
76. Countdown to After America: Extreme Shifts on the Court and American Democracy with Dr. Sara Benesh
77. Countdown to After America: Extremism, SCOTUS, and Political Violence w/ Drs. Faris, Benesh, Hawdon
78. Countdown to After America: Economic Hardship and Authoritarianism w/ Dr. Arlie Hochschild
79. After America E4: White Supremacy, Red Alert - Right-Wing Extremism's Threat to Democracy
80. After America E3: The Rise of Nazi Germany, the Fall of Rome, and America's Future
81. After America E5: Altar-ing the Constitution - Christian Nationalism's Rewrite
82. After America E1: Elephants in the Room - The GOP's Authoritarian Makeover
83. After America E2: The Oppressed Majority - How the Constitution Aids Authoritarianism
84. Countdown to After America: The Threat of Christian Nationalism to Democracy w/ Dr. David Gushee
85. Opus Dei, Leonard Leo, and Project2025 | a strategy of division
86. School Curriculum To Be Decided By Far-Right Extremists Now?

Christian Science

1. God's Alternative Medicine

Opus Dei

1. Joining Opus Dei
2. Life In Opus Dei
3. Josemaria Escriva
4. Opus Dei Deep Dive
5. Faith, power, manipulation - The secrets of the Opus Dei sect | DW Documentary

More Resources:

1.  Justification for the Inquisition
2. Thomas Aquinas: Father of Inquisition and Holocaust
3.  Defense of the Inquisition
4. In the Name of the Cross: Christianity and Anti-Semitic Propaganda in Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy
5. Anti-Semitic Propaganda and the Christian Church in Hitler’s Germany: A Case of Schrödinger’s Cat
6. Martin Luther and Antisemitism
7. Luther and Hitler: A Linear Connection between Martin Luther and Adolf Hitler’s Anti-Semitism with a Nationalistic Foundation
8. The Nazis Exploited Martin Luther’s Legacy
9. Christianity and the Holocaust
10.  From Luther to Hitler
11. Demonizing the Jews: Luther and the Protestant Church in Nazi Germany
12.  Catholics, Protestants, and Christian Antisemitism in Nazi Germany
13. “An incessant army of demons”: Wolf Meyer-Erlach, Luther, and “the Jews” in Nazi Germany
14. FROM ANTI-JUDAISM TO ANTISEMITISM: NAZI PROPAGANDA AND CHRISTIAN ANTI-JUDAISM
15. ANTI-SEMITISM IN GERMANY: HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
16. BETRAYAL: GERMAN CHURCHES AND THE HOLOCAUST
17. Martin Luther and “The Jews” A Reappraisal
18. A field guide to Christofascism
19. History of Catholic Church in Spain
20. Catholicism in the Second Spanish Republic
21. An unresolved past — the Spanish Catholic Church and Franco’s regime
22. Education, Fascism, and the Catholic Church in Franco’s Spain
23. The Catholic Church and the Jews in Franco’s Spain during the Holocaust, 1939–1945
24. National Christian Party
25.  National Union Party
26. Arrow Cross Party
27. Christian Fascism
28. Gott Mit Uns
29. The US Republican Party Will Continue Its Christo-Fascist Crusade — Clyde W. Barrow
30. Church and State in Portugal: Crises of Cross and Sword
31. Concordat of 1940
32. Politics and religion under the dictatorship in Portugal (1933–1974): rebuilding the separation between the State and the Church
33. ‘Christian Patriots’: The Intersection Between Proto-fascism and Clerical Fascism in the Antebellum South
34. Christian Identity
35. Clerical Fascism
36. The priest and the state: Clerical fascism in Slovakia and theory
37. Race and faith: the Catholic Church, clerical Fascism, and the shaping of Italian anti-semitism and racism
38. THE PORTUGUESE STATE AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH: DURING THE PERIOD OF ANTÓNIO OLIVEIRA SALAZAR
39. The Cult of Fools (May 7, 2023) — “Christian Left vs Christian Right”
40. The Cult of Fools (Mar 26, 2023) — “Deeply Weird Republican Behaviour”
41. Why the Christian Nationalist ‘History’ Peddled by David Barton Simply Cannot Be Trusted
42. Faith of the founding Fathers
43. Religious Views of Thomas Jefferson
44. Was Thomas Jefferson Religious?
45. Aleksandr Dugin
46. Indian Removal Act
47. American Genocide of Indians
48. Americas Manifest Destiny
49. Just War Theory
50. The Power Worshippers
51. Hitler on the Mississippi Banks
52. How American Racism influenced Hitler
53. United Daughters of the Confederacy
54. Three The Curse of Ham; or, From “Generation” to “Race”
55. The Making of a Southerner
56. Constitutional Union Guard
57. Knights of the White Camelia
58. The Invisible Empire: The Ku Klux Klan in Florida
59. Who Were the Pale Faces? New Perspectives on the Tennessee Ku Klux
60. Carl Schmitt in the Kremlin: the Ukraine crisis and the return of geopolitics
61. TEXT OF THE PRO-SLAVERY ARGUMENT (1832, by Thomas Dew)
62. Thomas R. Dew Defends Slavery (1852)
63. James Henley Thornwell
64. On Resistance to Evil by Force
65. Pogroms in the Russian Empire
66. Anti-Catholicism
67. Alexander H. Stephens’ “Cornerstone Speech”
68.