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Baneful Baptist Predatory Pernicious Pastors Destroying Democracy

Southern Baptist Convention Nashville TN

This essay is dedicated in appreciation to

Paul Pearson

Southern Baptist pastors have been spiraling downward  into the abyss of fiction and fraud for generations, pushing the iniquitous sword attacking civil rights, women, people of color, and the customary whipping boy for ignorant people: the LGBTQIA+ community. From Billy Graham and G...

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Physicans, Pastors, Predatory Politicians Destroy Democracy

Ivermectin warning yet people still take it and most die.

The concept of freedom of choice and expression is not absolute. No person has the right to broadcast misinformation about matters of health, social stability, and the right to express oneself in a democracy. Various physicians have been justifiably censored and removed from jobs that require public trust. This is especially true in the field of virology1 and the current coronavirus pandemic. Prescriptions for ivermectin have jumped to more than 88,000 per week, some pharmacists are reporting shortages and people are overdosing on forms of the drug meant for horses.2 Prescriptions for ivermectin have seen a sharp rise in recent weeks, jumping to more than 88,000 per week3 in mid-August from a prepandemic baseline average of 3,600 pe...

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Texas Republicans Are Against Pornography In Libraries and Are Supported by Republicans In Other States

Library of Alexandria artist rendition

This essay is dedicated to my well-read and erudite friend Woody Besse in Cedar Hill, Texas who puts up with my decidedly anti-Republican essays exposing the duplicity and double-talk given to education and learning, First Amendment rights and guarantees, and the equality of all people regardless of sex, gender, gender-identification, race, age, status, etc.

Burning books and other items containing knowledge is as old as time. Julius Cesar burned the Library of Alexander, that was one of the largest and most significant libraries of the ancient world. The Library1 was part of a larger research institution called the Mouseion, which was dedicated to the Muses, the nine goddesses of the arts, and all documents in it...

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White Evangelical Christians and their Ancestors

QAnon at the riot

The cult-like conspiracy system and conservative Christianity are influencing one another and creating potentially violent fanatics under the stress of the coronavirus pandemic and the resulting economic fallout.  Both movements are angry and bitter over former president Donald Trump’s election loss —

QAnon at the riot

Many white Christian evangelicals were QAnon followers at the Jan 6 riots shouting for the death of Mike Pence

which they believe was fraudulent. “Older members would ignore Black Lives Matter and instead say we had to focus on sex trafficking,” said Jared Stacy, who led a Southern Baptist church in Virginia until recently moving to Scotland with his family. “It’s like 2020 just exposed so many undercurrents that were already there and growing...

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Biblical Plagiarism

The sage, savant, and scholar Paul Pearson, my friend, has a new blog (https://pearsonally.com) that I recently commented on in brief concerning Ben Carson 1. Carson, currently Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and neurosurgeon and devout Seventh Day Adventist is a biblical literalist who has no knowledge of ancient pre-Biblical or biblical languages, yet pontificates on a wide range of Bible myths concerning ancient Egypt (soundly pointed out by Pearson). Carson does not offer a shred of historical evidence to support his wild claims from “Joseph built the pyramids” and the pyramids were “built in order to store grain” since “many chambers [were] are hermetically sealed”...

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The men known as Jesus–Part 2, No. 2: Psychology of a dysfunctional family

Dysfunctional Jesus

Jesus, his parents and siblings:

Psychology of a dysfunctional

family

Contents

1. Definition of a dysfunctional family

The Anna Karenina Principle

1b. Religion and dysfunctional families

1c. Lines of separation in dysfunctional families

2. Jesus’ dysfunctional family

2a. Lack of contemporary confirming evidence

2b. Jesus’ family members

2c. Jesus’ parents

2d. Invention of Mary’s perpetual virginity

2e. Disciple whom Jesus loved and his mother

2f. Son of a carpenter

3. Jesus dysfunctional revolt against his family

3a. Wedding at Cana

3b. Jesus rejection of Mother and turn toward gender identification

3c. Who are Jesus’ brothers and sisters?

3d. Denial of the family and psychological dysfunctionalism

4. Sex, women, Beloved Disciple and cover-up

5. Bibliography

5a...

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The men known as Jesus in the New Testament—Part Two: Understanding the Psychology of Jesus

Jesus will train children how to kill.

Understanding the psychology of Jesus

Contents

1. Introduction: Psychology and Literature

2. Jesus the glutton and drunkard

2a. Psychology of gluttony

2b. Psychology of drunkenness

3. Psychology of a peaceful Jesus

3a. Psychology of peace

3b. Psychology of denial

3c. Jesus loved little children

4. Psychology of the Warrior Jesus and Violence

4a. Jesus hated little children

4b. Jesus: Self-centered and arrogant

4c. Psychology of divinity

5. Jesus and the naked male youth

5a. Psychology of vengeance

6. Jesus the psychopathic warrior

6a. Psychology of war

6b. Psychology of Jesus and zombie friends

7. Bibliography

Primary documents

Monographs and book reviews

Psychological Studies—Books and articles

Web links

8. End Notes

Text

1. Introduction: Psychology and Literature

Many people fantasiz...

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Discovering Different men called Jesus in the New Testament—Part One, No. 2: Psychology of Jesus–How I lost Jesus and Found Art

How I lost Jesus and found Art

1. Introduction: Learning to fear and love God

2. Psychology of daily Bible reading to find Jesus

3. God’s gift: fear and love

4. Living Biblical Literalism

5. Mistake of questioning god-fearing parents

6. Rebellion

7. Sex and Jesus

7a. Sex, sin, and psychology

7b. Masturbation

7c. Impure thoughts

7d. Adultery

7e. Rhythm and babies

7f. Sex only in everlasting marriage

8. Children force adults into pedophile actions

8a. Sworn to secrecy to protect pastors

8b. Rod of Jesse and Staff of Life

9. Becoming disillusioned with Jesus—and god

9a. Epistles of Paul detailing the life and ministry of Jesus

Bibliography

Index
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1. Introduction: Learning to fear and love God

Lutheran children are taught to obey god and their parents who stand in place of god: ...

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The men known as Jesus in the New Testament: Part One, No. 1: What the Bible actually says

Jesus chases out money changers.

The men known as Jesus in the New Testament

Part One, No. 1: What the Bible Actually says

Contents

1. Background for inquiry and biographical sketches

2. Jesus: Portraits of Warrior and Pacifist

3. Saul’s Warrior Christ

4. Jesus the hedonist

5. Hell and Jesus

6. Sex as a religious rite

7. Jesus birth and heritage

8. Was Jesus homosexual?

9. The non-forgiving Jesus

10. Jesus and the Holy Spirit

11. Bibliography

12. End Notes

What the Bible Actually says


1. Background for inquiry and biographical sketches

When I was a small child with no one to play with, no family to speak with, no pets, no life of my own, I read the bible to find the “words of comfort” uttered by a man whom, I was told in Sunday School, loved little children and invited them to be with him at any time...

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Protected: Inventing the New Testament (Part 3): The Codex Sinaiticus

Contents of Part 3: Codex Sinaiticus

1. Overview

2. Resources and Argument

3. Demand for accuracy in academic scientific research and writing

4. What Codex Sinaiticus does not have in Gospel of Matthew

5. What Codex Sinaiticus does not have in Gospel of Mark

6. What Codex Sinaiticus does not have in Gospel of Luke

7. What Codex Sinaiticus does not have in Gospel of John

8. What Codex Sinaiticus does not have in Acts of the Apostles

9. What Codex Sinaiticus does not have in Epistle to the Romans

10. What Codex Sinaiticus does not have in Epistle to the hebrews

11. What Codex Sinaiticus does not have in Second Epistle to Timothy

12. Summary

13. Conclusion and recommendations

14. Bibliography

15. End Notes

Overview

Codex Sinaiticus (Σιναϊτικός Κώδικας)1 was written ...

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