Index
Abraham/family
Adam and Eve
Adam’s sin
Afterlife
justice and
Kant on
See also Heaven; Hell
Age of Reason (Paine)
Agnosticism/agnostics
definition/description
etymology/term history
sense/morality of
Agnosticism (Huxley)
AIDS/HIV
Alexander VI, Pope
Allen, Ethan
Altizer, Thomas J.J.
Amalek nation
Animals
human similarities
self-awareness and
Annals, The (Tacitus)
Anselm, St.
Antichrist
Antiquities of the Jews (Josephus)
Apostles Creed
Aquinas, Saint Thomas. See Thomas Aquinas, Saint
Aristotle
Armageddon
Arminius, Jacobus
Atheists/atheism
book sales
Christianity’s immorality and
confidence and
criticism of
definition
laws of nature/physics and
leading atheists
See also specific atheists
Augustine, Saint
beliefs/writings
importance to Christianity
Auschwitz
Autobiography of Charles Darwin, The (Darwin)
Automaton image
Baptism
Bartolini, Corrado
Benedict XVI, Pope See also Ratzinger, Joseph
Bernard, Pierre
Bible
contradictions/inconsistencies examples
descriptions
God of Old/New Testament
languages/translations
publications/copies
terminology origins
“Big bang” theory
“Black Death” (bubonic plague)
Borgia family
Born-again doctrine
description
Jesus and
See also Evangelicals; Fundamentalists; Pentecostals/Pentecostalism
Breaking the Spell (Dennett)
Brighenti, Kenneth
Brothers Karamazov, The (Dostoevsky)
Bryan, Williams Jennings
Bubonic plague (“Black Death”)
Buckley, William, Jr.
Buddha
Buddhism overview
Bugliosi, Tony
Bugliosi, Vince
Bugliosi, Vincent
background
beliefs on God
cat (Sherlock/“the egg”)
letters to
memory and
Bugliosi, Wendy
Bush, George H.W.
Bush, George W.
Calment, Jeanne
Calvin, John
Campbell, Joseph
Canon
Carter, Brandon
Cat (Sherlock/“the egg”)
Catechism of the Catholic Church
Catechism on the Priesthood (Vianney)
Catholic Church and Nazi Germany, The (Lewy)
Catholicism
apostolic origin and
baptism
beliefs on sex
bible of
change and
contraception/condoms and
corrupt priests/popes
corrupt priests/popes defense
councils/pronouncements
divorce/annulments
French Protestants (Huguenots)
good works
grand houses of worship
Hitler/Holocaust and
Jesus and
limbo
member statistics/power
ordination of priests
popes/priests as Christ’s representatives
priests and celibacy
priests’ molestation of children
psychological damage and
purgatory and
sacraments/dogma and
sale of indulgences
Spanish Inquisition
virgin birth and
Charismatic movement/“charisms,”
Christian God
as “all-good, all-powerful, all-knowing,”
blasphemy and
comparison to history’s villains
in court
death of people/pets and
embarrassing God
homosexuality and
jealousy of
miracles and
murders by (overview)
New/Old Testament
not showing his existence
paradox about stone
people claiming conversations with
people’s concepts/image and
slavery/slaves and
Ten Commandments and
U.S. currency and
vanity of
Christian Right See also specific individuals
Christian writers/thinkers
atheism and
inconsistencies of
See also specific writers
Christianity
beliefs summary
funerals and
main branches of
mythologies tradition and
statistics on
See also specific branches; specific individuals
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Circular reasoning
Circumstantial evidence
Claudius, Tiberius
Clement (of Rome)
Clinton, Bill
Coal miners, West Virginia
Cochran, Gregory
Cochran, Johnnie
Coherence of Theism, The (Swinburne)
Collins, Francis
Connor, Jimmy/mother
Conway, Reverend Bertrand L.
Copernicus
Cosmological argument. See First cause argument
Craig, William Lane
Creationists
about
age of earth/life and
complexity/precision of universe and
intelligent design argument
intelligent design criticism
science and
See also Intelligent design theory
Creed, The (St. Augustine)
Critique of Pure Reason (Kant)
Cross-examination
Crusades
Dalai Lama
Dante
Darrow, Clarence
Darwin, Charles
Dawkins and
religious beliefs
theory of evolution
Darwin on Trial ( Johnson)
Darwin, on Trial (Johnson)
David (King of the Jews)
Davis, Richard Allen
Davis, Stephen T.
Dawkins, Richard
beliefs/writings
Darwin/evolution and
status of
Dead Sea Scrolls
Delusion
about
Jesus and
Democracy in America (Tocqueville)
De Natura Deorum (Cicero)
Dennett, Daniel C.
Dershowitz, Levi, Rabbi
Descartes, René
Descent of Man, The, and Selection in Relation to Sex (Darwin)
Difficulties (Lunn and Knox)
Discovering God (Stark)
Disraeli, Benjamin
“Documentary Hypothesis,”
Dostoevsky, Fyodor
Durant, Will
Eastern Orthodox Church
Egypt
Israelites and
plagues
Einstein, Albert
Eisenhower, Dwight
Elisha (prophet)
End of Faith, The (Harris)
Engel, Gerhard
Enlightenment in Europe
Erasmus, Desiderius
Essays on the Gods (Protagoras)
Essenes
Eusebius
Evangelicals See also Born-again doctrine
Eve and Adam
Evidence as to Man’s Place in Nature (Huxley)
Evidence That Demands a Verdict (McDowell)
Evil
free will and
God and
happy/unhappiness comparison and
See also specific events
Evolution. See Theory of evolution
Faith and Works (Saint Augustine)
Faith overview
Ferdinand V, King of Castile
Feynman, Richard
First cause argument
about
Aquinas and
big bang theory and
last cause/last effect
“who made God” question and
Food and Drug Administration
Fordyce, John, Reverend
Foreign Policy
Fort Hood shootings (2009)
Fox, Dr. Everett
Frank, Anne
Franklin, Benjamin
Free will concept
Fundamentalists
Bryan and
description/beliefs
politics and
See also Born-again doctrine
Galileo
Gandhi, Mahatma
Gautama, Siddhartha
Geisler, Norman
Genesis
all-knowing God and
authorship of
Judaism/Christianity and
stories in
terminology
time of
GlaxoSmithKline
Gnostics/writings
God Delusion, The (Dawkins)
“God has his reasons” argument
God Is Not Great (Hitchens)
“God’s will” argument
Golden Rule
Goldman, Ronald
Gospel
meaning
See also specific gospels
Gospel of Judas/Judas
Gospel of Thomas
Gospels
“authentication” and
authorship and
contradictions/credibility and
epistles and
Jesus/Old Testament prophecies
“testimonies” of
timing of writing
virgin birth and
Gould, Stephen Jay
Graham, Billy
born-again doctrine
C.S. Lewis and
description/style
on God
on heaven
Jesus dying on cross
presidents and
Gravity/law of gravitation
Greenleaf, Simon
Greer, Frank
Gregory, Pope
Guidant Corporation
Guide for the Perplexed (Maimonides)
Gutenberg, Johannes
Haiti, earthquake (2010)
Hamlet (Shakespeare)
Harris, Martin
Harris, Sam
Hasan, Nidal Malik
Hawass, Dr. Zahi
Hawking, Stephen
Hawks, John
Hearsay
Heaven
family separations and
Graham on
Jesus and
Jesus/God’s characteristics and
Hebrews
Heine, Heinrich
Hell
about/beliefs
immortality of the soul doctrine and
Hertzberg, Arthur
Hillel
Hinduism overview
History of the Arabs (Hitti)
Hitchens, Christopher
beliefs/writings
status of
Hitler, Adolf
Holocaust/evil and
religion/atheism and
Hitti, Philip
Hoffer, Eric
Holocaust
Holy Communion (Holy Eucharist)
Catholicism and
transubstantiation and
Holy Rollers See also Pentecostals/ Pentecostalism
Homo species
Homosexuals
Hope (feeling of )
How to Be Born Again (Graham)
Human Genome research project
Human intrinsic goodness/evil
Humani Generis (Pope Pius XII)
Hunt, Dave
Hurricane Katrina
Huxley, Thomas
I Don’t Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist (Geisler and Turek)
Immaculate conception
Ingersoll, Robert
Inquisition
Intelligent design theory
about
legal cases and
See also Creationists
Iraq/War
Isabella I, Queen
Isaiah
scroll of
virgin birth and
Islam
beliefs of
Koran (Qur’an) and
Muhammad
overview
Shariah law
Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Ito, Judge
James (bible book)
James (brother of Jesus)
Jenkins, Jerry
Jesus
baptism of
B. C./A.D. and
“before world began,”
character/teachings
childhood
existence of
life summary
second coming
surname and
virgin birth
Jesus/divinity question
delusion and
family of Jesus and
Jesus claims of divinity and
Jews and
miracles/followers and
Old Testament prophecies and
resurrection and
sanity/insanity and
“Son of Man,”
virgin birth and
Jesus “dying for sins”
continuing sin and
devil and
as failure
God forgiving people and
God’s love and
irrationality of
Jesus as God and
Jesus forgiving people and
Jesus rising from dead and
New Testament on
original sin and
words from cross
See also Born-again doctrine
Jewish people
funerals
history of
Holocaust
Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Jesus and divinity question
Soviet Jews
See also Judaism; specific individuals
John (apostle)
John (gospel) See also Gospels
John Paul II, Pope
John the Elder
John XXIII, Pope
Johnson, Phillip E.
Jones, Jim
Joseph
Josephus, Flavius
Joshua
Judaism
beliefs
branches of
Isaiah 53 and
monotheism and
Old Testament and
overview
See also Jewish people
Judas/gospel of Judas
Kant, Immanuel
Kennedy, John F.
Kissinger, Henry
Klaas, Polly
Knox, Ronald
Koran (Qur’an)
Koresh, David
LaHaye, Tim
Lamaism/ Tibetan Buddhism
Last Supper
Lateran Trinity
Lawrence v. Texas (2003)
Left Behind series
Lemaitre, Georges
Leo X, Pope
Leo XII, Pope
Lewis, C.S.
Lewy , Guenther
Life span
Limbo
Limmer, Monsignor
Lincoln, Abraham
Locke, John
London Observer
Los Angeles Times
Luke (gospel)
authentication/“testimony” and
Jesus/Old Testament prophecies
See also Gospels
Lunn, Sir Arnold
Luther, Martin
Machiavelli, Niccolò
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Maher, Bill
Mahony, Roger M.
Maimonides
Manson, Charles/followers
Mao Zedong
Marconi, Guglielmo
Mark (gospel)
authentication/“testimony” and
Jesus/Old Testament prophecies
See also Gospels
Mary Magdalene
Mary (mother of Jesus)
Matthew (gospel)
authentication/“testimony” and
Jesus/Old Testament prophecies
See also Gospels
Maugham, Somerset
McDowell, Josh
McEnroe, John
McKee, Jeffrey
McPherson, Aimee Semple (“Sister Aimee”)
Megachurches
Mein Kampf (Hitler)
Meir, Golda
Memory and Identity (Pope John Paul II)
Mensa Magazine
Merck
Mere Christianity (Lewis)
Milosevic, Slobodan
Misprision of a felony
Montaigne, Michel
“Monkey trial,”
Mormons
Moses
Islam and
Israelites and
law/Ten Commandments
Torah authorship and
Mother Teresa
Muhammad
Mulloy, Gardnar
Murphy’s Law
Murray, Jim
Mussolini, Benito
Natural disasters
See also specific disasters
Nero, Emperor
New Testament
contradictions of
language of
See also Bible and Gospels
New York Times
New York Times Book Review
Newsweek
Newton, Sir Isaac
Nicodemus
Niebuhr, Reinhold
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Nixon, Richard
Noah/family and flood
Obama, Barack
O’Brien, Thomas J.
Oklahoma City bombing (1995)
Old Testament
Jesus and
Judaism and
prophecies of messiah
stories from
contradictions of
On the Origin of Species (Darwin) Origen
Original sin
about
Adam’s sin
baptism and
Oswald, Lee Harvey
Outrage: The Five Reasons Why O.J. Simpson Got Away with Murder (Bugliosi)
Paine, Thomas
Paley, William
Palliko, Alan/Judy
Pascal, Blaise/wager
Paul (Saint)
Paul, Gregory
Penance
Pentecostals/Pentecostalism
Charismatic movement and
description/beliefs
history
Holy Spirit/Jesus and
See also Born-again doctrine
Penzias, Arno
Peter (apostle)
Pew Research Center poll
Phaedrus (Plato)
Pharmaceutical company examples
Pigs
Pilate, Pontius
Pius XII, Pope
Plato
Polls
on most admired people
on religion/belief in God
Prayer
about/questions on
after tragedies
during funeral services
Jesus on
peace and
separation of church/state and
study on
Predestination
Prince, The (Machiavelli)
Principles of Biology (Spencer)
Prior human experience and circumstantial evidence
Probability in our daily lives
“Prophet,”
Protagoras
Protestant/Protestantism
Ptolemy, astronomer
Ptolemy II, King of Egypt
Punishment
of innocent
Thomas Aquinas on
See also Hell; Original sin
Purgatory
Q gospel
Quantum Mechanics
Qumran cave scrolls/writings
“Rapture,”
Ratzinger, Joseph
See also Benedict XVI, Pope
Religion
appeal of
common denominators of
education by elders effects
fanaticism and
geography and
morality and
national dysfunction study
sense of superiority of
statistics on
in United States
wars over (summary)
Rice, John R.
Riis, Jacob
Robertson, Deidre
Rogers, Will
Rove, Karl
Russell, Bertrand
Satan
Eve and
hell and
power and
Scalia, Antonin
Science Digest
Scopes, John
September 11 attacks/aftermath
Septuagint
Shakespeare, William
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Simpson, Nicole
Simpson, O. J./family
Sinatra, Frank/Nancy
Sixtus IV, Pope
Smith, Joseph
“Social Darwinism,”
Socrates
Sodom and Gomorrah
Sophocles
Soul
definitions/descriptions
immortality of the soul doctrine
Spanish Inquisition
Speaking in tongues
Spencer, Herbert
St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre
Stalin, Joseph
about
books on
Stark, Hans
Stark, Rodney
Statistical Abstract of the United States (U.S. government)
Stein, Gertrude
Stendahl
Stockton, Henry
Story of Civilization (Durant)
Suetonius
Summa Theologica (Aquinas)
Sunday, Billy
Swift, Jonathan
Swinburne, Richard
Tacitus
Tara, C.
Teachings of Christ, The: A Catholic Catechism for Adults
Teresa, Mother
Tesla, Nikola
Tertullian
Theists/theism
confidence and
definition
thought and
watch example and
See also Creationists; First cause argument; specific individuals; specific religions
Theology doctorates
Theory of evolution
about
fossil record
God/belief in God and
humans and
memory and
“monkey trial,”
“natural selection” and
“survival of the fittest,”
television improvement comparison
transitional forms and
USA Today/Gallup Poll on
Thomas Aquinas, Saint
about
beliefs
Thoreau, Henry David
Thou Art That (Campbell)
Tillich, Paul
Time magazine
Tocqueville, Alexis de
Toland, John
Tolstoy
Torah authorship
Torquemada, Tomás de
Toward a New Christianity (Altizer)
Tregilio, John, Jr.
Tribulation Period
Trinity (holy trinity)
Truman, Harry
Tsunami (2004)
Turek, Frank
Twain, Mark
Twelve Caesars, The (Suetonius)
Universe
creationists and
earth’s relevance and
intelligent life in
Urban II, Pope
USA Today/Gallup Poll
Ussher, James, Archbishop
Vatican City (as state)
Vianney, St. John
Viereck, George Sylvester
Vioxx
Virgin birth
Voltaire
Von Braun, Wernher
“Wandering Jew”
Warraq, Ibn
Webster, Daniel
Wesley, John
Where Was God on September 11? (Greer)
Wigmore, John Henry
Wills, Gary
Woese, Carl
Yamauchi, Edwin M.
Yahweh
Yoga
Zoroaster
Zuckerman, Phil