"Bad Religion: A Compendium"

 

Alan: The biblical patriarch Abraham -- the common founder of Judaism, Christianity and Islam -- is revered by all three religions chiefly for his willingness to kill his son because Yahweh/God told him to.

I -- like my devout Catholic mother -- believe that God would never command a parent to murder an innocent child and that the patriarch Abraham was "hearing voices" as the result of a psychotic breakdown.

The implications of this willingness to mistake psychosis for religious experience -- an error that lies at the heart of all three Abrahamic religions -- are explored below.

Obama’s 2006 Speech on Faith and Politics: Abraham Prepares To Kill And Immolate His Son

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/07/obamas-2006-speech-on-faith-and.html

Bad Religion: A Definition

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/01/bad-religion-definition.html

"Any Religion That Needs Fear To Thrive Is Bad Religion"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/02/any-religion-that-needs-fear-to-thrive.html

Bad Religion And The Abrahamic Tradition

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/06/bad-religion-and-abrahamic-tradition.html

"Bad Religion: A Compendium"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/04/bad-religion-compendium.html

Good Religion And Bad Religion
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/02/bad-religion-and-good-religion.html

Fr. Thomas Merton Explains -- In 16 Words -- Why "Christian" "Conservatives" Are Always Wrong

https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/08/fr-thomas-merton-explains-in-16-words.html

"Terrorism And The Other Religions"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/04/terrorism-and-other-religions-juan-cole.html

Christianity's Bedrock Commitment To Torture: Remaking "The Faithful" In God's Image

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/christianitys-bedrock-commitment-to.html

Best Pax Posts On Torture

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/11/best-pax-posts-on-torture.html

Bush's Torture Team: Legal Counselor John Yoo Justifies Crushing Children's Testicles
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/12/dubyahs-torture-team-legal-counselor.html

America's Passion For Punishment And Torture

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/04/americas-passion-for-punishment-torture.html

All 3 Abrahamic Religions Should Be As Ashamed Of Themselves As They Are Now Self-Certain

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/02/all-3-abrahamic-religions-should-be-as.html

Conservative Christians Delight In The Punishment And Pain Of Others

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/09/conservative-christians-delight-in.html

Abrahamic Religions Must Deal With Their Own Bronze Age Atavism And Not Just Window Dress

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/02/abrahamic-religions-must-deal-with.html

What's Wrong With The Abrahamic Religions: Absolutism, Scriptural Inerrancy, Bloodlust

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/07/whats-wrong-with-abrahamic-religions.html

What's Wrong With The Abrahamic Religions: Absolutism, Scriptural Inerrancy, Bloodlust

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/07/whats-wrong-with-abrahamic-religions.html

Pastor John Piper "discusses the vexing problem of God ordering the mass killing of every Canaanite man, woman, and child."

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/peterenns/2012/07/john-piper-on-why-its-right-for-god-to-slaughter-women-and-children-anytime-he-pleases-and-why-i-have-some-major-problems-with-that/

Mistakes In Scripture: When The Bible Gets The Bible Wrong

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/05/mistakes-in-scripture-when-bible-gets.html

"Is The Bible More Violent Than The Quran?"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2014/03/is-bible-more-violent-than-quran-npr.html

Worst Bible Passages

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/09/worst-bible-passages.html

Biblical Literalism And The Cultivation Of Hatred

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/02/biblical-literalism-and-cultivation-of.html

"What ISIS Really Wants" And How The Patriarch Abraham Appears To Be The Instigator

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/02/what-isis-really-wants-and-how.html

Are Highly Religious People Less Compassionate?

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/12/reprise-are-highly-religious-people.html

Christianity: A Compendium Of "What Went Wrong" And Current Worship Of The Wrongness https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/07/christianity-compendium-of-what-went.html

Trump And His "Conservative" "Christian" Cultists Deserve To Be Called Out For Their Anti-Christ Destructiveness https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/07/trump-and-his-conservative-christian.html

John Pavlovitz: "The Miserable People" And "The Kind Of Christian I Refuse To Be" https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/07/john-pavlovitz-miserable-people-and.html

"The Story Of Jonah And The Whale" Retold For The Righteous By Anne Herbert https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/07/the-story-of-jonah-and-whale-retold-for.html

Why "Conservative" "Christians" Are All Going To Hell (If There Is A Hell... Which I Don't Believe) https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/07/why-conservative-christians-are-all.html

"The Number One Cause Of Atheism Is Christians," Catholic Theologian, Karl Rahner, SJ https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/07/the-number-one-cause-of-atheism-is.html

The Big Lie And Conservative Christianity's Unshakeable Belief That The Bible Is Inerrantly True https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/07/the-big-lie-and-conservative.html

"Conservative" "Christianity" Is Neither: It's A Shameless Ruse Perped By Religious Maniacs https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/07/conservative-christianity-is-neither.html

Reprise: "God Enjoys The 10 Plagues Way Too Much" (Supplemented By "America's Best Christian," Betty Bowers) https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/08/god-enjoys-ten-plagues-way-too-much.html

"Conservative" "Christians" Only Believe In God And Themselves The Two Are Interchangeble
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/07/conservative-christians-only-believe-in.html

"We Know To The Extent That We Love": St. Augustine Goes To The Heart Of Epistemology

https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2020/07/we-know-to-extent-that-we-love-and.html

Thomas Merton: "Adolf Eichmann, Sanity and Normality"

https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/09/thomas-merton-adolf-eichmann-sanity-and.html

American Conservatives Demand Violence To Keep Violence Alive. Otherwise, It Withers And Their Worldview Collapses

https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/09/american-conservatives-demand-violence.html

At The Heart Of "Christian" "Conservatism's" Catastrophe

https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/09/the-heart-of-christian-conservatisms.html

Christian Ministers Have A Moral Obligation To Call Bullshit On Trump Cultists Spreading Lies https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/07/christian-ministers-have-moral.html

Unless Truth Is Richly Contextualized, It Is Likely That Uneducated, Ideologically-Driven People (Who Never Learned How To Think In Context), Will Use Fragmented Shards Of Truths To Tell Colossal Lies

https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/08/unless-truth-is-richly-contextualized.html

It Is Important To Know These Things So Religion Doesn't Do You More Harm Than Good

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/02/it-is-important-to-know-these-things-so.html

What Too Many Christians Get Wrong

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/02/what-way-too-many-christians-get-wrong.html

Jesus: Festive Tippler And Friend Of Whores, Publicans, Tax Collectors And Sundry Sinners

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2016/03/jesus-festive-wine-bibber-and-friend-of.html