Websites relating to Religions

Education| Christian | Islam | Other | Skeptical | Blasphemy.

Religion in Education

Two members of Leicester Secular Society are Humanist observers on their respective Standing Advisory Councils on Religious Education (SACREs). These bodies oversee the RE curriculum for most state schools.

SACREs

• Leicester SACRE
• Leicestershire SACRE

Christianity

The Christian Church has over 300 different branches and some 20,000 different denominations and sects. Some of these sects are of course claimed, by other sects, not to be Christians at all! The essential requirement would seem to be some basis of belief in the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth, and counting him as the "Christ" or "Annointed One" or "Messiah", however this is interpreted.

General links about christianity

• Mormons and DNA: William Lobdell
• Christadelphians
• The Christianity Meme
• Brethren Groups
• Gnosticism
• Ian Paisley Organisation
• Latter Day Saints (Mormons)
• The Shroud of Turin
• Unitarians
• Society of Friends (Quakers)

Links to Commentaries on the Bible

The Christian Bible exists in numerous different editions, and is a compilation of many smaller books, translated from the original Hebrew, Aramaic or Greek. The component books include history, propaganda, poetry, law, prophecy, morality, and fiction, and were written over hundreds of years, from Y-600 to Y200. Although described as "the word of God" these books were of course written by human beings. The version of the bible used by Catholic and Orthodox Churches include extra books, known as the Apocrypha. Among the early Christian writings there are other gospels (e.g. Thomas' Gospel) which often disagree with each other and with the four that made it to the accepted New Testament after the Council of Nicea in 382 and the Council of Trent in 1545-47.

• Biblical Cosmology
• Nasty Jesus and Stupid Advice
• Skeptics Annotated Bible
• Clarifying Christianity
• The Brick Testament - illustrated annotated bible

Islam

Mohammed and History of Islam

• External References to Islam
• Cosmology and the Koran by Richard Carrier
• Sacred City - Dan Gibson on discovering the true birth place of Mohammed
• The Emergence of Islam - Jay Smith

Islam at present

• Fadela Amara - Islam and Women in France
• Alevism< - Islamic humanism?/li>
• A conservative Islamic perspective on current events
• Islam in Space
• Muslims for Secular Democracy
• Islam Undermining the UN
• Holding it Together - peaceful coexistence in Leicester
• Hizb ut-Tahrir (Islamist organisation)
• Militant Islam Monitor
• The Left and the Jihad< - Fred Halliday/li>
• The Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam

The Mohammed cartoons issue

• Danish cartoons
• Nazi Antisemitic cartoons for comparison

Other Religions

• Kabbalah - Observer interview
• Satanism — Anton LaVey
• World Union of Deists
• Satanism
• Flat Earthers
• Odinism
• Paganism — Pagan Federation (UK)
• Universal Spirituality
• Hindu Council — Vishva Hindu Parishad
• Zoroastrianism

Skeptical Comment and Information

• Platitude of the Day
• Which religion?
• Why God Won't Heal Amputees
• Cult Information Organisation
• God is imaginary - 50 proofs
• Godchecker - Guide to All the Gods

Blasphemy

• Asian Human Rights Commission
• Guardian Archive- Houellebecq case

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