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Grandpa Harley's Cornucopia of Christian Links

Despite the title of this page, the content is serious.

I have been a student of Judeo-Christian religions for the majority of my life.

This comprises some of the best, active, web content I have found in the past decade of serious research into the nature and history of the Christian religions.

I wish the researcher luck, since history is written by the winners, and the Greek mystery schools of Christ won in no uncertain terms.

Bear in mind, that Greco-Romano philosophy is not Aramaic thought.

I wish you well in your searches.

'Grandpa Harley'

Apologetics

This comprises some of the better insights I have found into the mind of the Christian Fundamentalist.

As a warning to the researcher: Some of these Web sites are by amateur designers. Thus it is recommended for speakers to be turned down if in an environment where music may be an issue.

Apologetics Press
Augustine Club Apologetics Toolkit
Christian Apologetics and Research Ministry Christian Answers Network (ChristianAnswers.Net): Multilingual answers, reviews, ministry resources, and more! Christian Worldview -- A Biblical Worldview -- Christian Apologetics and World View
Famous Scientists Who Believed in God and other resources for the Apologist
Lee Strobel
passageway.org
Reasons To Believe: Hugh Ross, Fazale Rana, Kenneth Samples et al
Sojourners: Christians for Justice and Peace Stand to Reason: Equipping Christian Ambassadors in the Areas of Knowledge, Wisdom Welcome to Christian Evidences Ministries

Biblical History, Resources and Philosophy

Biblical knowledge is an essential when dealing with the fundamentalist. You not only have to know it as well as they do, but also the historical context of the piece. As an example, it is all well and good knowing Chapter 3 Verse 2 of Thessalonians verbatim, if you don't know who the Thessalonians were, or the approximate date it was written and the political landscape of the time!

This section therefore is probably the largest I have accumulated and represents the best of Bible Portals, Exegetical sites, and Historical Resources that I have found to date.

One thing to remember... If the researcher needs a quick, unbiased overview: WIKIPEDIA IS YOUR FRIEND! It may not have the best reputation, but it is readily available, and I have not yet been let down by the open community of Wiki.

Here's the link - Wiki Christian Portals

Here is my collection. The links I've used most are in red.

| magdalene.org |
All-in-One Biblical Resources Search
Associates for Scriptural Knowledge Home Page
Bible History Online Images and Resources for Biblical History
Bible Inconsistencies: Bible Contradictions?
Bible Research by Michael Marlowe

Bible.com
bible.org
Bible: Revised Standard Version
BibleGateway.com
Bibles.net - The #1 Online Collection of Bibles and Biblical Resources
BibleTab Comprehensive Bible Concordance
BibleTexts.com homepage
Biblical Archaeology Society
Biblical Hermeneutics Home Page
Blue Letter Bible
BOOKS OF THE OLD TESTAMENT
Capella’s Guide to Atheism - An Atheist’s Guide to Scripture and more… » The Bible vs. Abortion?
Crazy stuff from the bible

dailyscripture.net
Development of the Biblical Canon
Early Christian Writings: New Testament, Apocrypha, Gnostics, Church Fathers
Epistemology and Information Science
Fire and Ice: Puritan and Reformed Writings
Genesis 1:1 Bible Commentaries
About the Bible
jesuspuzzle.com
God's Yellow Pages
Gospelcom.net: An alliance of over 300 online Christian ministries
Heretics Got Your Goat
Interpreting Ancient Manuscripts
Jesus Seminar & Westar Institute Home
Official Home Page of Robert M. Price
On The Inerrancy of Scripture
Online Parallel Bible

Psalms and Other Spiritual Things
Review of Biblical Literature
Pagan Origins of the Christ Myth

The Dying God: The Hidden History of Western Civilization
SearchGodsWord.org, Bible study resources from HeartLight.org
Skeptic's Annotated Bible / Quran (Koran) / Book of Mormon
The Dead Sea Scrolls at the Gnostic Society Library: Texts from the Scrolls
The Development of the Canon of the New Testament - Home
The Gnosis Archive: Resources on Gnosticism and Gnostic Tradition
The Gospel of Thomas Collection -- The Gnostic Society Library
The Historical Jesus Christ
The New Testament Gateway
The Rejection of Pascal's Wager: Central Thesis
The Septuagint Online: Electronic Resources for the Study of the Septuagint and Old Greek Versions
The World Community for Christian Meditation
Top Ten List
Unbound Bible
Welcome to the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology
Zondervan Bible Search

Anglo-Catholic/Episcopalian Resources

Anglo-Catholicism is, by and large, pretty amiable and tolerant for the cults of Christ. In parts, its congregation can be Unitarian or even bordering on Neo-Pagan (I know one Episcopalian Priest who discusses problems with the North Wind and makes offerings to the Goddess at certain wells. The locals call him Myrddin and he's pretty universally beloved by all segments of his small community).

The "problem children" of the Anglican Communion are the African Churches, who have a fundamentalist stance closest in form to some of the Charismatic and extreme Baptist sects of protestantism.

The bulk of mainstream Anglicanism is bracketed by the likes of Bishop John Shelby Spong at one end and Anglo-Catholics who come close to revering the Pope at the other.

Here is my small collection of Anglican resources

Episcopalian.Org
The Anglican Domain
National Council of Churches USA -- Home Page
The Anglican Communion Official Website
The Book of Common Prayer
The Episcopal Church welcomes you

For the interested I'd recommend getting on to John Shelby Spong's mailing list. He usually has something interesting to say in his Q&A mailings.

Other Spong Resources;

The Unofficial JSB Fan Site

JSB Wiki

I'd recommend his books too, if you have the disposable income...

Coptic and Eastern Orthodox Churches

The Wiki on the history of the Coptic church. is a very solid resource and has some good reference links.

I've not had much direct experience with the Orthodox churches. However, they are largely of late Apostolic succession and share some of the communion with the Roman Church.

Here are the links that I have collected. They are partially reference, and partially a study of the Iconography.

Encyclopedia Coptica: The Christian Coptic Orthodox Church Of Egypt
Peshitta Aramaic/English Interlinear New Testament
Byzantine Icons: A Guide to Byzantine Icons, Frescoes and Mosaics - from Constantinople to Macedonia to Russia and around the world.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America

My intent it to give the researcher a flavour of this particular collection of sects.

Roman Catholic

This represents my single largest denominational collection, and it has a pretty broad coverage of topics pertaining to the Church of the Fisherman.

The Links:

American Catholic - A Roman Catholic Church site from the Franciscans
Catholic Culture : Home Page (formerly PetersNet.Net)
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Home
Catholic Information Network (CIN)
Catholic Online Search - Home
Catholic Online
Catholic Youth Networking
Catholic-Hierarchy: Its Bishops and Dioceses, Current and Past
CatholiCity : The Best Catholic Homepage
Catholic Television Schedules for EWTN North and Latin America, the Pacific Rim, Africa, and Europe
CatholicQandA.com -- Catholic Apologetics, Media, Community, Portal
CUF.org :: Catholics United for the Faith
Rosary Army: Free Rosary & How To Make A Rosary
Welcome to The Catholic Distance University ONLINE
Home - TheologyOfTheBody.net
Christ's Faithful People: a confraternity of Roman Catholics promoting doctrinal orthodoxy.
The Shroud of Turin Website
CHURCH FATHERS: The Perpetual Virginity of Mary (Jerome)
CATHOLIC LEAGUE for Religious and Civil Rights
Fish Eaters: The Whys and Hows of Traditional Catholicism
Cultural Catholic - Catholic Nuns 3
U. S. Catholic Magazine : Current Issue
Franciscan Cards - Catholic Resources for sharing and spreading the Good News!
Hermitary: the hermit, hermits, anchorites, recluses, eremiticism, solitude, silence, simplicity
HOMEPORT index (05enter.htm) [WARNING: Serous font and colour abuse - Gramps]
II Vatican Council - A Fulltext Search Engine
Luigi Cascioli - La Favola di Cristo
Opus Dei - U. S. A. - Finding God in Work and Daily Life
The Holy See
The Internet Padre :: A Roman Catholic Resource on the World Wide Web.
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
ZENIT News Agency--The World Seen from Rome

Nonconformist Christian

This section, by virtue of the sects it covers, is something of a miscellany. I have used all these links at one time or another.

Order of Modern Essenes Home Page
drewc.net
Protestant Reformed Churches
pilgrimop.org
Assemblies of God (USA) Official Web Site
StudyLight.org - Plug in, turn on and be enlightened!
withCHRIST.org BAC site
A Puritan's Mind - Rediscovering the Reformation and the Puritans
RBC Ministries
Prophecy News Watch - Biblical Prophecy in the News
Vincent Cheung / Reformation Ministries International
Spirituality.com: from the Christian Science Publishing Society
Seminary Online - Reformed Theological Seminary Virtual Campus

Cult Resources

Nearly all the sects of Christianity exhibit some, if not all, of the salient features of a cult. This is more pronounced in the fundamentalist movements, with social limits placed on members, recommended book burnings and the like.

Thus it would be remiss not to have references on cults

Cults, Mind Control, Fundamentalism Info, News + Help: FACTNet
Cult Information from the Rick A. Ross Institute for the Study of Destructive Cults, Controversial Groups and Cult Movements

Humanism

This collection of links is supplied for the convenience of the researcher, since often one has to defend an atheist/humanist stance to the fundamentalist.

Spiritual Humanism - Free Online Ordination - Religion based on Reason
Mahatma Gandhi Album: Gandhi on Jews & Middle-East
Why I Am Not A Christian, by Bertrand Russell
Naturalism_Org
Humanist Association Of Canada
Secular Web: Atheism, Agnosticism, Naturalism, Skepticism and Secularism
Acton Institute for the Study of Religion & Liberty
Logical Fallacies and How to Spot Them
Meme Central - Memes, Memetics, and Mind Virus Resource
The Brights' Net - Home Page

For more arguments against fundamentalist religion see the Index of Sources.

Foundation for Fighting Fundamentalist Religion