There are many historians and pseudo scientists who have assumed that the Shroud of Turin is the burial cloth of Jesus, and are consistently searching for (or creating) evidence to support that conclusion. This is despite a definitive dating process that placed the age of the cloth between 1260 and 1390 CE, precisely during the time that it first appeared in history and concurrent with a time that thousands of fake holy relics, including over 40 other ‘authentic’ shrouds of Jesus, were being made and sold.
The Shroud of Turin Scam and the Implications of Confirmation BiasReasons For Reason2021-09-13 | Taken from reason #15 on the list
There are many historians and pseudo scientists who have assumed that the Shroud of Turin is the burial cloth of Jesus, and are consistently searching for (or creating) evidence to support that conclusion. This is despite a definitive dating process that placed the age of the cloth between 1260 and 1390 CE, precisely during the time that it first appeared in history and concurrent with a time that thousands of fake holy relics, including over 40 other ‘authentic’ shrouds of Jesus, were being made and sold.
R4R logo by Peter DeTukkerTransferring guilt to all Jews for Jesus’s deathReasons For Reason2023-04-10 | Transferring guilt to all Jews for Jesus’s death
Over two thousand years of Christian persecution of the Jews has stemmed from this one scripture.
This psychotic belief has had murderous consequences for Jews, who have been blamed for the death of Jesus.
In Matthew 2:13-23, the author claims that Herod authorized the murder of all infant children up to the age of two in Bethlehem and the surrounding districts as a means of ensuring that the Christ child would die.
There are many reasons to conclude that this is a fictional story.
The majority of Christians profess to be pro-life and consider abortion to be immoral. Many would like to see it be illegal. But the Bible does not contain a single verse that forbids abortion. In fact, it contains a lot of verses that suggest that God is OK with the act of killing fetuses.
It would be expected that God would have supplied through prayer some guidelines on how to remain well during a pandemic, but the evidence indicates that early Christians were just as clueless as their pagan counterparts, dying at about the same rate.
Christianity spawns the Dark Ages and the current Twilight Age
Between the fall of the Roman Empire and the Renaissance, a period of anti-intellectualism spread across much of Europe, suppressing science, individualism, and non-religious art. This was caused by the Christian belief that pursuit of knowledge or freedom of expression was a tool of Satan to deceive mankind and foment apostasy.
Christians claim that God created man in his own image, but a thoughtful reading of the Bible indicates something different- that men created God in their own image, replete with the full spectrum of human qualities and frailties.
At the time the Bible was created, most people viewed the earth as the center of the universe and that the sun, stars, planets, and moon revolved around its flat surface. Christianity is based on this world view, placing an emphasis on humans as the ultimate reason that the universe was created in the first place.
Many Christians believe that life begins at conception and an entire anti-abortion industry has been built around this concept. But it presents a quandary. Does a fertilized egg that fails to implant in the uterus go to heaven?
They usually say that the Old Testament has been superseded by the New Testament and therefore no longer applies. This is despite the fact Jesus emphatically said the opposite.
Christianity has an abysmal, pathetic, unsympathetic, and barbaric attitude regarding the rights of animals to be treated ethically and with compassion.
God, assuming he exists and operates as most Christians assume, must be watching what is happening in real time, the current events, and the trends of our society. So he must also be aware of the worldwide political environment.
These criteria suggest that his focus would on the Republican Party of the United States. He would be expected to influence the leaders of that party to fairly represent the ideals of Jesus and to transmit those ideals into public policy. So why is it that we observe the reverse?
R4R logo by Peter DeTukkerGod has an important message for mankind, but fails to clearly deliver itReasons For Reason2021-09-23 | Taken from reason #15 on the list
So, after waiting 200,000 years after modern humans evolved, God decides to deliver an important message to mankind. You would think it is essential that all of the people on earth receive this vital message and that it is clear and unambiguous. Let’s see how that worked out:
Christianity was born from a strictly monotheistic religion, Judaism, a faith that itself evolved from a polytheistic model, considering their god to be one of many [one of the 10 Commandments is to have no other gods before Yahweh, implying the existence of others], to a doctrine claiming their god to be the only one in existence. The belief in a single god is considered by religious historians to be an important maturation in sectarian theology.
R4R logo by Peter DeTukkerEvil Spirits and Mental IllnessReasons For Reason2021-08-30 | Taken from reason #13 on the list.
In Biblical times, it was widely understood that many of the maladies that people were suffering were caused by evil spirits. This included many forms of mental illness and other organic diseases.
R4R logo by Peter DetukkerEarly Christians were uneducated and superstitiousReasons For Reason2021-08-01 | Taken from #7 on the list
No matter what Christianity has evolved into after 2000 years, it is instructive and illuminating to consider the types of people who became its first followers. http://www.kyroot.com/?p=8#early
R4R logo by Peter DetukkerFailure to returnReasons For Reason2021-07-24 | Taken from Reason #6 on the list.
Biblical historians are quite clear on this matter- Early Christians, notably Jesus, Paul, the disciples, and other followers were all convinced that the end of times was near and that an earthly kingdom presided over by Jesus would be established within the lifetime of some people who were then currently alive.
Logo by Peter DeTukkerThe evil nature of GodReasons For Reason2021-07-12 | The following is taken from #5 on the list, about something that many ignore, or don't know about, or think is somehow normal:
Logo by Peter DeTukkerHitler and Andrew CarnegieReasons For Reason2021-06-25 | This reason is about the fallacious reasoning of evil believers going to heaven and good non-believers going to hell and how it makes no sense whatsoever.
Logo by Peter DeTukkerWelcome to my channelReasons For Reason2021-06-21 | This is just an introduction to my channel where I am simply just reading off of a website I found a few years ago. With reasons for figuring out whether someone’s belief is true, or not.
The creator of that website has given me permission to use his website to list those reasons in video.