This is a 26 page booklet giving a brief outline of the
ownership and control of education by the church and the way they use it
for their own promotion - it describes the way that this has
enabled them to shape our society and attitudes. Today's social and
political policies, attitudes to crime and punishment, health and
welfare, reproductive health and women's equality are all a result of
this domination of education. The elitism of education has
been used to suppress atheist and secularist opinion and has
allowed the religions to dictate our cultural direction and shape
our prejudices.
ISBN
0-9550671-1-1
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2) 'A Theory of Belief' -
A.Shaw
This 33 page A5 Booklet gives a new ground
breaking perspective on how and why, intelligent, educate and otherwise
rational people continue to believe in superstitions and the
supernatural.
It shows how indoctrination and belief, and other such apparently
'mystical or mysterious' phenomena such as the placebo effect, the
brainwashing of cults and bizarre beliefs in alternative therapies and
faith healing, use the normal systems of human physiology. The prime
purpose of these systems is to maintain, physical, mental and emotional
health and well-being, but a side effect can make people, particularly
children and vulnerable people susceptible to mind manipulation.
The basis of the theory can be seen most clearly in its particular
relevance to it's role in health care, conventional and alternative,
but is also to be seen in many other areas of the manipulation of
behaviour - politics, teaching and child rearing .
ISBN
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3) 'A Challenge to Religion on Health'
- A.Shaw
The religions claim a 'special role' in the care of the
sick, but in this closely argued 27 page Booklet this view is
challenged. The real effects of religion on health and health care has
been and still is in many respects, far from the reality. In fact,
they have used this myth of 'faith welfare' to promote their
beliefs, gain kudos, keep people reliant i.e. as part of their PR!
It can be seen that in physical, mental and emotional
health, the effects of religion have been malign . Their
attitudes to sex, social control and the inferiority of women, have
distorted attitudes to the human body; caused stigma and prudery; caused
harmful punitive attitudes to illness, prevented health education and
the participation of women in education, science and the health
professions.
This is a hard hitting assessment of the false claims of
religion on human health.
ISBN
0-9550671-2-X
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4)
Illicit Sex and the God Machine by A.Shaw
The 'great' religions have narrow attitudes to sex that
promotes prejudice and discrimination, even cruelty to men women and
children. Their punitive attitudes cause suffering through stigma, ill
health and poverty. Our attitudes to women - their autonomy and
rights, children and child care, income and child support, and
women's work and pensions.
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09550671-3-8
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5) Transience by Sue
Mayer
Poems written by a woman freethinker, on a range of subjects
relevant
to her beliefs or rather non-belief - life and death,
"the
honourable state of godlessness", feminism, the environment
and
peace.
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