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    A Curse On All Their Houses, How Religious Scripture and Practices Support Intolerance, Violence and Even War
    A Curse On All Their Houses, How Religious Scripture and Practices Support Intolerance, Violence and Even War
    A Curse On All Their Houses, How Religious Scripture and Practices Support Intolerance, Violence and Even War
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    A Curse On All Their Houses, How Religious Scripture and Practices Support Intolerance, Violence and Even War

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    . 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]
    There was a 30 year war (1618-1648) over religion. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Years’_War

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    PublisherSamuel Butler
    Release dateDec 27, 2010
    ISBN9781310721168
    A Curse On All Their Houses, How Religious Scripture and Practices Support Intolerance, Violence and Even War
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    Samuel Butler

    Samuel Butler (1835-1901) was an English novelist, essayist, and critic whose satire Erewhon (1872) foreshadowed the collapse of the Victorian illusion of eternal progress and influenced every significant writer of utopian/dystopian fiction that followed. His autobiographical novel, The Way of All Flesh (1903), is generally considered a masterpiece.

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      A Curse On All Their Houses, How Religious Scripture and Practices Support Intolerance, Violence and Even War - Samuel Butler

      A CURSE ON ALL THEIR HOUSES

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

      Includes mythical and forged religious origins

      by

      Samuel Butler

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      A Curse On All Their Houses

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

      Includes mythical and forged religious origins

      Copyright 2010 by Samuel Butler

      ISBN: 978-0-9828898-4-8

      Cover Design by Oscar Sierra

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      A CURSE ON ALL THEIR HOUSES

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

      Book Cover by Oscar Sierra. 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.

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

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

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      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Preface

      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)

      Short Review of Jesus, Interrupted

      Christian Child Bride

      Predator Priests Shuffled Around Globe

      Sixteen Crucifixions Before Christ

      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

      Origins of Islam

      Founder of Mormonism

      More on the Origins of Christianity

      The Forged Origins of the New Testament

      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 Code for Global Ethics

      Conclusion

      About The Author

      References

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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]

      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.

      Religion is 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 POX ON ALL THEIR HOUSES. A pox is a plague, indicating in general that all religions should be looked upon with a skeptical attitude, and especially forget about just going on faith to believe the seemingly unbelievable.

      If you find these revelations shocking and/or revealing, don’t be like some who say If my beliefs are opposed to the facts, so much for the facts.

      by Sam Butler 12/01/10

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      ISLAM

      The Koran: From http://www.muslimaccess.com/quraan/arabic/009.asp

      Also from the Koran translated from the Arabic to English, by Abdallah Yousuf Ali here: http://www.muslimaccess.com/quraan/translations/yusufali/009.htm

      These say a Muslim should kill unbelievers (unless they repent and give to charity) (Muhammad was well known for asking for tribute-author).

      Koran: Sura 9:5 But when the forbidden months are past, then fight and slay the Pagans (non-believers-like Christians and Jews-author) wherever ye find them, and seize them, beleaguer them, and lie in wait

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