Material related to Divine Misconceptions

This page is an introduction to and an aid to access of material on this blog related to my book-in-progress, tentatively titled Divine Misconceptions:  An Orange Catholic Necronomicon of Religious Fallacies and Misinformation.  Throughout human history, people have frequently shown poor religious thinking and ignorance of religion.  Unfortunately, the situation does not seem to be any better today.  Rather than tolerate the situation, I have decided to write the authoritative book on the subject in the hope of stimulating at least a few people to think about what they believe and why they believe it.

This project is bigger than any one person.  Feel free to notify me of any religiously fallacious or incorrect material you find, suggest matters for me to discuss, or ask questions. I also welcome donations of materials related to the project that you have and are doing nothing but taking up space right now.  Those who are unusually generous can buy me something from the official Divine Misconceptions wish list on Amazon.com. Actual money would also be nice.

Note:  To make things easier on me, I am switching to a searching- and tag-based system. I have not yet gone through the blog to tag all the relevant material yet.

Everything relevant:  the query Divine Misconceptions

Reviews:  the query  Divine Misconceptions reviews

Everything below was inserted into this page manually.  There are no plans to either remove it or augment it at this point.

Reviews:

• Review of Island by Aldous Huxley (2007-05-13)
• Review of Godless: The Church of Liberalism by Ann Coulter (2007-05-31)
• Strange acts: a review of Evan Almighty (2007-07-03)
• There can be miracles when you disbelieve: a review of The Prince of Egypt (2007-07-18)
• You cut up the Bible, you bloody baboon!: A review of The Ten Commandments and The Ten Commandments: The Musical (2007-09-07)
  
• A review of Noah’s Ark (2008-01-31)
  
• A theological review of Tron (2008-02-14)
  
• False symmetry: a theological review of “The Enemy Within” and The Dark Crystal (2008-04-02)

Divine misconceptions of the day and daily material relevant to Divine Misconceptions:

• Divine misconception of the day: “Roman Catholic Bishop Wants Everyone to Call God 'Allah'” (2007-08-19)
  
• Divine misconceptions of the day: “China Regulates Buddhist Reincarnation” and “Mother Teresa's '40-year faith crisis'” (2007-08-26)
  
• Divine misconception of the day: “Washington Post, Other Newspapers Won't Run 'Opus' Cartoon Mocking Radical Islam” (2007-08-29)
  
• Divine misconception of the day: “Washington Post, Other Newspapers Won't Run 'Opus' Cartoon Mocking Radical Islam”—continued (2007-09-02)
  
• Divine misconception of the day: “Children of 'witches' fight social stigma” (2007-09-20)
  
• Divine misconception of the day: “Teacher fights to take gun to class” (2007-09-21)
  
• Divine misconception of the day: Opus 2007-09-23 (2007-09-24)
  
• Divine misconception of the day: “Pasadena church wants apology from IRS” (2007-09-26)
  
• Divine misconception of the day: “Watchdog bans ‘Jews for Jesus’ adverts” (2007-10-16; drew the ire of a so-called “Jew for Jesus” but without any substance in the objections)
  
• Divine misconception of the day: “Suit OK'd against anti-gay church group” (2007-10-17)
  
• Jews for Jesus ask “Did Jesus even exist?” and Divine misconception of the day: “Parents use religion to avoid vaccines” (2007-10-18)
  
• Divine misconception of the day: Scientology: Inside the Cult (2007-11-09)
  
• Divine misconception of the day: “Snakebite victim's family sues: BLAMES HOSPITAL, NURSE AND DOCTOR” (2007-11-12)
  
• Divine misconception of the day: “Intelligent design”, which is documented in the Nova episode “Intelligent Design on Trial” (2007-11-20)
  
• Divine misconception of the day: “Are Scientists Playing God? It Depends on Your Religion” (2007-11-21)
  
• Divine misconception of the day: “Hindu gods get summons from court” (2007-12-09)
  
• Divine misconception of the day: “Bible put on a pinhead-size chip” (2007-12-25)
  
• Divine misconception of the day: “Huckabee: Amend Constitution to be in 'God's standards'” (2008-01-16)
  
• Divine misconception of the day: “Government renames Islamic terrorism as 'anti-Islamic activity' to woo Muslims” (2008-01-21)
  
• Divine misconception of the day: “Force strong for new Jedi church” (2008-01-22)
  
• Divine misconception of the day: poor understanding of truth noted in “Surveys Find Americans Tolerant Of Religious Beliefs” (2008-01-29)
  
• Divine misconception of the day: “The Great Tantra Challenge” (2008-03-20)
  
• Divine misconception of the day: “63 failed & 1 ambiguous end-of-the-world predictions between 30 CE and 1990 CE” (2008-03-21)
  
• Divine misconception of the day: “Parents pick prayer over docs; girl dies” (2008-03-28)
  
• Related to Divine Misconceptions: “To tell or not to tell, that is the question” (2008-03-31)
• Relevant to Divine Misconceptions: “The Study of Political Islam” (2008-04-11)
• Divne misconception of the day: “The Devil Went Down To Georgia” (2008-04-14)
  
• Relevant to Divine Misconceptions: “Professor Fired for Getting a Divorce” (2008-05-01)
  
• Divine misconception of the day: “Pastor takes Christ out of Christianity” (2008-05-19)
  
• Divine misconception of the day: “McCain Backer Hagee Said Hitler Was Fulfilling God's Will” (2008-05-23)
  
• Divine misconception of the day:“The end of the world is nigh. Its name is Gordon”, with special weird thing the LOLCat Bible Translation Project (2008-05-29)
  
• Divine misconceptions of the day: “End of the World? House of Yahweh says so” and “'Witch' family killed in India” (2008-06-15)
  
• “Will gay rights trample religious freedom?”
  “Study: Non-Orthodox men less connected than women”, “Islamic school draws fire”, “The enemy has a name”, and “Teen from faith healing family dies at Ore. home” (2008-06-19)
  
• “The New Israel and the Old ” and “souls. i eets them.” (2008-06-20)
  
• “A missing ethic” (2008-06-23)
  
• “Homer's Odyssey Said to Document 3,200-Year-Old Eclipse”, “The ethnic cleansing of Arabic Jews”, and “The Fifth Generation Warfare” (2008-06-24)
  
• “Sacred Science: Using Faith to Explain Anomalies in Physics” and “Can a Robot, an Insect or God Be Aware?” (2007-06-25)
  
• “Jordan charges Dutch politician with blasphemy” (2008-07-02)
  
• “New Zealand man puts up his soul for auction” (2008-07-03)
  
• “Doctors told to defy parents and save child’s life”, “When a tombstone reads 'Light of the World'”, and “The disaster for Christians in Iraq” (2008-07-07)
  
• “We may allow gay unions: COI head” (2008-07-09)
  
• “New legal threat to teaching evolution in the US” and “Bisexual Species: Unorthodox Sex in the Animal Kingdom” (2007-07-11)
  
• “Man Claims God Uses Him To Cure Cancer, Raise Dead; Thousands” and “Man sues church, claiming spirit forced his fall” (2008-07-13)
  
• “Study attacks Euro-centric view of worldwide religious decline” (2008-07-14)
  
• “What does the pope do on his day off?” and “UZBEKISTAN: Fifteen year sentence for reading 'prohibited' Christian literature?” (2008-07-15)
  
• “Symposium: Confronting Islamization of the West” (2008-07-16)
  
• “Review Finds Slurs In '06 Saudi Texts”, “Saudi king opens Spain interfaith conference with call for unity”, and “Mormon Church and polygamists battle over language” (2008-07-17)

Other:

• A list of religious questions (2006-01-10)