What Marx showed was that the worker is not paid in full for the work that they do. Theory becomes a material force as soon as it has gripped the masses.
Natural Law expresses any human being's natural rights as a human being living in a society, their human rights, the irreducible rights everyone has by virtue of their humanity that they expect i...
The metaphor of a camel going through the eye of a needle is common to both Matthew and Luke. Do not be misled by your pastor... this passage is saying rich men cannot get into heaven.
http://askwhy.co.uk/christianity/0869christian_communism.php
In the first stages of the currency collapse, nobody foresaw the full consequences. By the end, shopkeepers were putting up their prices at least twice daily.
People all over the world hoped that Israel would take the road of peace and cooperation with its neighbours. Zionist leaders, however, took a different road.
If Jesus were God as Christians believe, then he is a perverse God. Jesus said on one occasion that, if men could not recognize the spiritual authority of Moses and the prophets, they would not b...
A conspiracy theory claims an official line is false. Officialdom has seen the need to issue a false account as misinformation to guard its secrets, and is deliberate propaganda intended for the ...
Wellhausen was not to know therefore that the prophets' punitive force, the Assyrians, stood for the later Persians, and the message of justice and righteousness was a Persian one, a doctrine tha...
I Finkelstein and A Fantalkin have slated the interpretations and the amateurish methodology of the excavation of Khirbet Qeiyafa, claimed to confirm king David!
At Ramat Rahel, the evidence of irrigation systems, exotic plants in the garden, and C14 dating indicate a Persian building, garden and pottery.
Until it was established as the Roman state religion by Constantine, Christianity was not what Christians see it as today, and it faced as much opprobrium as Islam in the west today.
http://askwhy.co.uk/christianity/0590church_ancient_world.php
Updated: Origen of Caesarea (185-254 AD) lived thirty miles from Nazareth, but could not find it. He concluded that many places mentioned in the gospels never existed. Before Constantine, Nazaret...
The citron tree, long ago absorbed into Jewish tradition, made its first unequivocal appearance in Israel in this Persian period garden. It suggests a link between the setting up of the temple st...
Lorem Ipsum, is not meant to make sense but simply to fill space to show how a functioning web page would look filled with text. Something that is nonsense but imitates plausible English a bit be...
If you have been intending to start that novel or screenplay but felt short of ideas, here is the Wise Women's synopsis of Polti plots to give you a few ideas.
The Christian church was triumphant. The task now was to convert the world, a task that suited Roman imperialism. As Christianity was the religion of Rome, Christians were Roman citizens. Christi...
Fairy tale plots have their own internal logic which must satisfy the desire for a marvel and a satisfactory outcome, like the bible stories. Though religious stories have so much in common with ...
The last days required the first among the Essenes to reduce themselves to the level of the least to do God's work, call all Israel, men, women, and children to righteousness in an exhortation li...
The need for God expresses our dependence on each other, on society. Evil now has a supernatural connotation, but it just meant dangerous. God as society protects us, and god as a father guides u...
"Sons and Daughters of the Covenant", were pious elite Christians whose main characteristic was their chastity, even when married. Like the Essenes, they aspired to be angels, eternal beings with...
http://askwhy.co.uk/christianity/0778libergraduumaphrahat.php
Who should be believed? The Christian believes Christ to be God, so there is no question about it. Paul is a man, Christ is God! Why do Christians believe Paul and ignore God?
The extension of individuation by ever greater personal freedom ignores society, particularly that it is held together by constraints that can be broken only at the risk of its destruction.
It is not compellingly apparent that God is the explanation of human history -- the problem of evil seems to deny it. Why would God expect us to believe in Him having arranged the world such that...
Christ told a rich man how to be saved. It was not by faith alone. He had to love God and his neighbors, and give his wealth to the poor. Like the rich today, he could not do it because the rich ...
Ultimately how do you judge what is moral? Either God has given us the gift of moral judgement, or He has not. Yet sympathy with the feelings of others explained the moral sense adequately...
"Freedom to" is positive freedom, a concept that the Christian west hasn't understood, yet it is practical Christian morality, which reflects human sociality.
After the Nicene Council, Arianism became the Christology of the invading barbarians. The savages who destroyed Rome and took over the western empire were Christians. Cyril's gangs of brutal Chri...
"Who or what Christ is?" is the problem of Christology. No one today are much interested in it, least of all, the Christian sheep, who think their believes would not be worth having if they were ...
Updated: Roman writers believed that Mithraism came from Persia and that Mithraic iconography represented Persian mythology. Mithraism was called the mysteries of the Persians. Christian apologis...
Epiphany has become most closely associated with just twelve verses of Matthew concerning the visit of the wise men from the East, or Magi, who came to adore Jesus in Bethlehem.
The anthropic principle is more of an observation than a theory. We are here, and so the Universe's age and physical constants are those that allow us to exist, and not all those others that woul...
http://askwhy.co.uk/truth/d10horgan_dawkins_anthropic_principle.php
Where there are two rival and inconsistent accounts of the same divinely inspired biblical fact or event, only one can be true. Christians must have to believe that gospel inspiration is consiste...
PDF book length paper: The Natural History of Secular Christianity. Freely circulate. Constructive comments welcome.
http://www.askwhy.co.uk/christianity/secular_christianity1.2.pdf
The ordinary citizen does not have power and cannot so exercise it. We have yielded our rights to a professional political caste, out for their own personal gain, not often doing what electors wa...
Religion is a side effect of natural mental processes, an evolutionary spandrel. Moral instincts support us as animals for which society is essential, not just an option. An instinct to attribute...
Updated: People often reason egocentrically about others' beliefs, using their own beliefs as an inductive guide. Correlational, experimental, and neuroimaging evidence suggests that people may b...
The Hellenized world of Alexander's generals was already full of Jews from the outset. Their Persian masters had been destroyed leaving the underclass of Juddin as a substantial body of people wi...
Emile Durkheim showed that morality is a set of rules to bind people into an effective group. Religiosity is a feature of human life, and evolutionary, developmental, neuropsychological, and anth...
Where is the political balance? About half way along the left-right scale appear the liberals, the demonic lefties of modern US conventional politics, almost at the center of the whole political ...
http://www.askwhy.co.uk/truth/326The_Happiness_Hypothesis.php
Christ's message was a practical ethic for a successful, caring, unoppressive society for everyone. "God is love" is meaningless outside of a social context, and acted upon within society. Those ...
http://www.askwhy.co.uk/christianity/0875secularchristianity.php
Professor Kitcher of Columbia university classifies Christianity into three main taxa, of which "spiritual" Christianity is the only one suited to the modern world, and seems closely similar to S...
Since Paul, Christians have had almost two millennia to justify their revisions of Christ's social teaching. Real Christians get on with being a Christ. Fake Christians boast about their faith. F...
Moral judgments promoted prosocial behavior, expressed to our ancestors the common judgement of the group of why anyone should act favorably to others in society, even though directly it might be...
Cooperation is the cement of society, but people will cooperate only when others cooperate. Selfish people prefer free riding. When free rider unfairness cannot be punished somehow, people stop c...
Survival of the fittest was misinterpreted for a long time as equalling pure selfishness. It seemed to mean selfish enough to make sure you reproduced even if it meant your rival did not. Pure se...
Excessive richness shows society is malfunctioning, and wealth must be redistributed to correct it. The Principle of Humanity is to get people out of bad lives, not to put them into them, even th...
Justice as fairness permits justice to be indeed fair. It shows why people want a fair and equal spread of rights and duties, and also an equal distribution of benefits, to value a place in socie...
The origins of religion. Further update of pages that introduce aspects of religion as a scientific study.
Revised: An empire centred on Jerusalem in the tenth century BC is strongly disputed. There was a tenth century BC, but no emperors called David and Solomon lived in it. Tenth century BC "Solomon...
Revised: The evidence for king David outside the bible is minute and controversial. No kings of Judah before Hezekiah are attested outside the bible. Judah was created as an Assyrian puppet.
If the bible was written around 700 BC, Jewish historians preceded the first historian, Herodotus by 200 years. It is manifest nonsense. Persian scholars with access to Assyrian records wrote the...
http://www.askwhy.co.uk/judaism/01325whenwasthebiblewritten.php
Updated: Evidence that Exodus is an Hellenistic romance written in Alexandria