Christianity

Dark Agenda: The War to Destroy Christian America  by David Horowitz, Humanix Books, 20018.  The First Amendment to the United States Constitution forbids this country from establishing a state religion. The Church of England is the State religion of the United Kingdom This is a government sponsored religion. The founding Fathers decided we should not have that in our country. But in the 1960s the U.S. Supreme Court  decided to widen the separation of church and state by proh

Mortal Sins: Sex, Crime, and the Era of Catholic Scandal  by Michael D'Antonio, St. Martin's Griffin, 2014.

Massacre at Montsegur: A History of the Albigensian Crusade   by Zoé Oldenbourg, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997.  The Cathars The Cathars believed that Jesus was the son of God, and they believed in the Bible. The Cathars believed that they were closer to the original Christianity than was the the Roman Catholic Church, which, they believed, had deviated from Jesus and the Bible. One of the primary divergences was that the Cathars did not believe that God created the physical wo

Out of the Flames: The Remarkable Story of a Fearless Scholar, a Fatal Heresy, and One of the Rarest Books in the World  by Lawrence Goldstone, Nancy Goldstone, Broadway, 2002.  Gutenberg Bible During the 16th century in Europe, the Gutenberg printing press was the main enabler for the spread of ideas to reform the Roman Catholic church. But there was no freedom of the press and the Vatican prevented the publication of what it deemed to be heresy. Michael Servetus A Spanish s

In the Closet of the Vatican: Power, Homosexuality, Hypocrisy  by Frédéric Martel; Shaun Whiteside (Translator). Bloomsbury Continuum;...