A Curse On All Their Houses, How Religious Scripture and Practices Support Intolerance, Violence and Even War

by Samuel Butler

Overview

. This book is about the consequences of religion more than whether Christ rose from the dead (Krishna, Mithras, Osiris, Attis of Phrygia, Dionysus, all of whom besides being born on December 25th from a virgin mother, died and were resurrected, except for Mithras - who ascended directly without dying!) or whether the text of the verses of the Qur’an correspond exactly to those revealed to Muhammad directly as the words of God, delivered to Muhammad through the angel Gabriel. It is more focused on how religious scriptures and writings have been misused to harm, torture or kill others who don’t believe, or used for justification to do what most rational persons would consider evil. Christopher Hitchens puts it not so “mildly” as he claims he does when he says “Religion poisons everything”, and “Religion Kills” [2]
There was a 30 year war (1618-1648) over religion. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Years’_War

Product Details

BN ID:	2940011167904
Publisher:	Samuel Butler
Publication date:	12/27/2010
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	390 KB

About the Author

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Samuel Butler is a graduate (B.A.) in Economics from University of California, Berkeley, 1959.
Former All-City Champion Pole Vaulter in San Francisco high schools
Former Captain United States Air Force (reserve) Navigator
Former President of the Toastmasters Club (Golden Gate Toastmasters) in San Francisco
Former Chief Appraiser of a Large Financial Institution in California
Former Vice President for Real Estate Acquisitions, United States Real Estate Corporation, Headquartered in the Bank of America Building in San Francisco
Owner, Founder, Butler Realty Group, focusing on Commercial Real Estate, located in the Transamerica Pyramid, San Francisco
Successful Commercial Real Estate Broker (in Cushman and Wakefield, owned by Rockefeller) San Francisco Founder, former President of Atlantis Energy, S.A., a biofuel corporation.
Now retired, plays golf, chess, and bridge