Putting Together a Resource List for This Forum

[Christina]

I thought it would be a good idea to develop a resource sticky for this forum to help those of us that don't know a lot about theology to follow the conversations. The other mods and admins helped me put together this list to get us started, and I'm hoping that some of you can help me finish it and make sure that it's organized in a meaningful way. Does anyone have anything to add or see a better way to organize things? Thanks : )


Comparative religions:
Beliefnet (http://www.beliefnet.com/)
Virtual Religion Index (http://virtualreligion.net/vri/)
Interfaith Calendar (http://interfaithcalendar.org/)
Internet Sacred Text Archive (http://www.sacred-texts.com/)

Christianity:
BibleGateway.com (http://www.biblegateway.com/)
open source theology (http://www.opensourcetheology.net/)
Internet Theology Resources (http://www.users.csbsju.edu/~eknuth/itr/index.html)
Blue Letter Bible (www.blueletterbible.org)
The Gnostic Archive (http://www.gnosis.org/)
Pagan Christs (http://www.sacred-texts.com/bib/cv/pch/index.htm)
Pagan Origins of the Christ Myth. (http://www.pocm.info/)

Early Christian Writings (www.earlychristianwritings.com)
Early Jewish Writings (www.earlyjewishwritings.com)
The Jesus Puzzle (http://home.ca.inter.net/~oblio/home.htm)

Islam:
Multilingual Quran (http://www.al-islam.org/quran/)
USC-MSA Compendium of Muslim Texts (http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/)

Eastern Religions:
BuddhaNet (http://www.buddhanet.net/)

Paganism/New Age Religions/Satanism:
Paganism Today (http://www.paganismtoday.com/)
Official Church of Satan Website (http://www.churchofsatan.com/)

Atheism/Agnosticism/Skepticism:
Skeptic's Annotated Bible/Quran/Book of Mormon (http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com/)
The Jefferson Bible (http://www.angelfire.com/co/JeffersonBible/)

[Hedwig]

I don't know what's going on with the Ontario Center for Religious Tolerance lately, but they might be worth a look. I haven't been to the website in years, though. So they might have been taken over by complete crazies or something.

[Jobar]

Naturalistic pantheism (http://www.pantheism.net/paul/index.htm)

A very good site for understanding pantheism.

http://www.jesusneverexisted.com/

The best site on mythicism I know about. Worth reading from start to finish- you'll learn a LOT about the history of Christianity!

[shipload]

There's a discussion board on Yahoo!groups, called JesusMysteries (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/JesusMysteries/) which is basically a mythicist board...the historicity of the Jesus figure is the primary focus of the discussions. Check out their files and links.

Also, try checking out the Journal of Higher Criticism (http://depts.drew.edu/jhc/jhcbody.html).

[Wordy]

Ontario Center for Religious Tolerance

I could be wrong but I got the bad gut feeling that they are highly into postmodern relativism and supporters of NRM New Religious movements like Sciento and such. So if that is true it would be bad linking to the enemy?

[Christina]

Thanks for all of these additions, everyone.

Wordy, there's no 'enemy' here so feel free to provide whatever links you'd like to : ).

[Garnet]

For the Skepticism category:

Rejecting Pascal's Wager (http://www.geocities.com/paulntobin/)

[Lanakila]

http://www.leaderu.com/

This is a website with some of the premiere (as far as the church is concerned) apologists out there like William Lane Craig, Paul Little, Hugh Ross ect. Some of the apologetics arguments on there are against evolution, but for the most part its just pro Christian.

[Craig]

These are not exactly "mainstream", but you might want to consider them in your list.

Zen - Adyashanti (http://www.adyashanti.org)

Evolutionism - Foundation For

Conscious Evolution (http://www.barbaramarxhubbard.com/)

Jungian-Buddhism - Paul Levy (http://www.awakeninthedream.com/)

[SteveF]

http://www.tektonics.org/

Popular and combative apologetics website. Author, JP Holding, is an irritant to many famous online sceptics.

[Magdlyn]

For Neopagan news and networking

http://www.witchvox.com/

[Tawny]

Can we add Denomination/Congregation details?

if so.... Church of England (http://www.cofe.anglican.org/)

[Wordy]

Thanks for all of these additions, everyone.

Wordy, there's no 'enemy' here so feel free to provide whatever links you'd like to : ).

Sorry the long delay. I'm am into the view that rational means reasonable but what is reasonable for the person suggesting them is certainly not reasonable and relevant and rational to me. And I see post-modernists as enemy with big E.


But I am not the founding persons of RT so I am a bit odd man out.

I would suggest links to Pascal Boyer. He seems rational to me.

[DailyB]

For American religious statistics, the ARDA (http://www.thearda.com/) is invaluable.

[Crazy Liz]

I don't know what's going on with the Ontario Center for Religious Tolerance lately, but they might be worth a look. I haven't been to the website in years, though. So they might have been taken over by complete crazies or something.

I was going to say Religioustolerance.org (http://www.religioustolerance.org/) should be on the list, too.

[Crazy Liz]

Ontario Center for Religious Tolerance

I could be wrong but I got the bad gut feeling that they are highly into postmodern relativism and supporters of NRM New Religious movements like Sciento and such. So if that is true it would be bad linking to the enemy?

The enemy?

Are you some kind of fundy or something?

[rossum]

Does anyone have anything to add ...

Eastern Religions:
BuddhaNet (http://www.buddhanet.net/)
Access to Insight (http://www.accesstoinsight.org/)

Another Buddhist site.

rossum