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The map of everything in this vault on faith, God, scripture, and the role of religion in society. The three great monotheisms each get their own hub; the cross-cutting arguments — does God exist, does society need religion, whose text is better preserved — are gathered below so they can be reached from any direction.
Two framing quotes → Quotes: Religion
“The tendency to turn human judgments into divine commands makes religion one of the most dangerous forces in the world.” — Georgia Harkness
”It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.” — Voltaire
The Big Questions (cross-cutting)
- Do Individuals Need Religion? Does Society? — the anchor debate
- What is best basis for society? Religion or Secular? — cross-country data + Holland & Siedentop
- Religion as a Cooperative Technology and Moral Community — believing, doing, belonging, cooperation mechanisms, and institutional safeguards
- Why the moral argument for God's existence fails — Schmid’s four criticisms, Euthyphro, parsimony
- Preservation of Religious Text — Qur’an vs. Bible manuscript stability, carbon dating, variants
- Reading the Bible · Marriage Rates · New Convenant theology or Supersessionism replacement theory
- Debates: DEBATE Is Christianity Or Secular Humanism Best for Society? Mike Jones Vs Dan Barker · Debating The Moral Landscape With Sam Harris
- Cross-vault → The Philosophy of Religion · Religion in Politics · The Religion of Immigration · There is no religious revival - Unsolicited Advice · Sam Harris
📖 Embed — What is the best basis for society? (the literature’s verdict)
5. So, what do these literatures say about your core question?
“What is a better foundation for a society? A Christian, Muslim or secular society or a combination?”
If you aggregate the mainstream scholarly work:
- Almost nobody serious ranks “Christian vs Muslim vs secular” in a simple league table. Outcomes differ hugely within each camp (compare Norway vs Guatemala vs the US; or Indonesia vs Saudi Arabia vs Senegal; or France vs China vs Sweden).
- Empirical political science tends to say:
- Quality of institutions (rule of law, constraints on power, inclusive economic and political institutions) and economic development are the strongest predictors of good outcomes.
- Religious heritage has some influence (Protestant missions, for example, correlate with democracy), but it’s not destiny.
- Historical/philosophical works (Holland, Siedentop, Taylor) argue that:
- Modern “secular” Western liberal orders are deeply shaped by Christian ideas about human dignity, conscience, and equality.
- So a successful secular order may in practice be a Christian-seeded secularism, even if it no longer confesses Christianity as state doctrine.
- Islamic reformers (An-Na’im, some others) argue that:
- For Muslim-majority societies, the best foundation is a secular state that protects freedom of religion, combined with Islamic moral commitments lived voluntarily in society.
- Structural issues (oil, authoritarian elites) matter far more than whether the constitution says “Islam is the religion of the state.”
- The “combination” view is closest to the academic center of gravity:
If you operationalize “better foundation” in terms of:
- Stable democracy
- Human rights and civil liberties
- Economic growth and innovation
- Peaceful pluralism
Then the dominant answer is:A liberal-democratic, largely secular state framework (no official monopoly religion, strong rights, and rule of law) + a robust, plural religious and secular civil society—where Christian, Muslim, and other traditions are free to shape culture and public debate, but none has coercive control over the state.
That’s compatible with:Link to original
- Christian accounts that see liberalism as a Christian outgrowth.
- Muslim reformist accounts that want Islam in society but not enforced by the state.
- Secular/post-secular accounts that want equal citizenship and institutional neutrality.
If you’d like, next step I can:- Build you a small table summarizing pros/cons each side claims for:
- Christian-confessional state
- Islamic-confessional state
- Strong secular state
- Hybrid “twin tolerations” model
so you can drop it straight into Obsidian.
Does God Exist? — Arguments & Apologetics
Most of these notes physically live in the Christianity folder but are really general philosophy-of-religion. See also The Philosophy of Religion.
Arguments for God
- Kalam Cosmological Argument · Contingency Argument · Fine Tuning Argument
- Anselmian Ontological Argument · Modal Ontological Argument
- Objective Moral Argument · Transcendental Argument for God · Andrew Wilson Prove God Exists Logic
Presuppositionalism & its critics
- Presuppositional apologetics · Transcendental Argument for God
- Countering Presuppositional Apologetics · Stroud’s critique of transcendental arguments
- Presuppositionalism Destroyed Like You've Never Seen! Dr. Alex Malpass
Counter-apologetics
- Atheism · God is Subjective · Euthyphro Dilemma
- Why the moral argument for God's existence fails
- Cross-vault → How to debate objective morality from God · Debating Objective Morality by God
Islam → 60.11.1 Islam
The largest, most developed hub. Core: Quran · Muhammad · Sharia · Islamism · Islamic Sects · History of Islam · Myths of Islam · Christianity Comparison · Islamophobia.
- Violence & politics: Terrorism, Violence & War · Jihad Attacks · 10 Reasons Islam is NOT a Religion of Peace · Islam in Britain · Compatible with Democracy?
- Human Rights: Apostasy · Slavery · Jizya · Stoning and Adultery · Homosexuality · Torture
- Women’s Rights: Child Marriage · Polygamy · Veils and Covering · Wife Beating · Woman's Worth · Woman's Place
- Moral Issues: Deception, Lying and Taqiyya · Befriending Non-Believers · Charity and Aid · Stealing
- Data & sources: Polling · How Religious Are Muslims? · Islam Library · books Radical · Who Speaks For Islam - What a Billion Muslims Really Think
Christianity → 60.11.2 Christianity
- Scripture: Bible Notes · Reading the Bible · Preservation of Religious Text
- Doctrine & history: Augustine Original Sin · Baptism · Filioque · Christian Reforms · New Convenant theology or Supersessionism replacement theory · A Shorter Summa
- The West debate: Christianity as Western Foundation? · Dominion - Tom Holland · Suppression and Resurgence - Classical Learning from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance · America a Christian Nation? · Christian Values Vs. Civilization Yaron Brook Show
- Critiques & apologetics: see Does God Exist? — Arguments & Apologetics · Argument - 100x more likely to be sexually assaulted in a public school compared to a church
Judaism → Judaism
- Talmud — controversial passages, fact-checks, and the fair counter
- Christian Violence, Persecution, and Suppression of Jews, 300–1899 — Augustine’s “Witness Doctrine” through the medieval expulsions
- New Convenant theology or Supersessionism replacement theory — replacement theology
- Anti-Judaism - David Nirenberg — the three-thousand-year book note · Bible Passages in Nirenberg's Anti-Judaism — the scripture chart behind it
Books & Courses Library
✝️ Christianity — books
- Dominion - Tom Holland — Christianity as the source of Western moral instincts
- A Shorter Summa — Kreeft’s abridged guide to Aquinas’s theology and philosophy
- Anti-Judaism - David Nirenberg — the counterweight to Holland: how “Judaism” became the West’s all-purpose category of error (PDF (file not included in this release) · scripture chart)
- The New Concise History of the Crusades · Holy Horrors - An Illustrated History of Religious Murder and Madness · The Dark Side of Christian History
- The Sins of Scripture - Exposing the Bible's Texts of Hate to Reveal the God of Love · Twisted Scriptures
- Catholic scandal: Pedophiles and Priests - Anatomy of a Contemporary Crisis · City of Secrets - The Truth Behind the Murders at the Vatican · The Vatican Exposed - Money, Murder, and the Mafia
- Cults & abuse: Kingdom of the Cults, The · Authority Abusers- Breaking Free from Spiritual Abuse · Healing Spiritual Abuse - How to Break Free from Bad Church Experiences · Toxic Faith · Twisted Scriptures
- Oneness Pentecostalism: Christianity without the Cross - A History of Salvation in Oneness Pentecostalism · Oneness Pentecostals and the Trinity · Jesus Only Churches · Fire from Heaven
🕌 Islam — books
- Radical — Maajid Nawaz’s memoir of radicalization & exit
- Who Speaks For Islam - What a Billion Muslims Really Think — the Gallup polling data
🔭 Atheism / secular
Filed captures and working notes — October 2026
Religious arguments, comparisons and ethics
- Christian and Jewish Ethics — preserved working note or source capture
- DEBATE Christianity Or Islam, Which Is Best for Society? Daniel Haqiqatjou Vs Andrew Wilson — preserved working note or source capture
- Islam Overtaking Christianity — preserved working note or source capture
- Orthodox Christians and Muslim Conflicts — preserved working note or source capture
- Secularizing Religion and the German School — preserved working note or source capture
- Theological BULLSH*T! Richard Dawkins Challenges Ayaan Hirsi Ali's New-Found Christianity — preserved working note or source capture
- Why do Children Die of Cancer? — preserved working note or source capture
- Funny ass Muhammad Hijab Quote — merged capture, retained in the named section
- proverbs 21 19 — merged capture, retained in the named section
Auto-index & unlinked mentions
Base index
Religion.base (file not included in this release)
🌳 Full folder tree (maintained by the Waypoint plugin)
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- 60.11.1.1 Books
- Aisha's Age at Marriage
- Al-Khwarizmi, Ibn Sina, and Al-Razi - What They Actually Invented
- Al-Wala wa-l-Bara
- Arab Slave Trade
- Arguments
- Ayaan Hirsi Al - The Growing Threat of Radical Islam
- Calls for Sharia in the UK
- Dawah
- Dhimmi
- Divorce Difficulties for Women
- History of Islam
- How Religious Are Muslims?
- Human Rights
- Inbreeding in Muslim Countries
- Islam - Working Notes
- Islam and Christianity
- Islam Curriculum
- Islam in Britain
- Islam Invasion of India
- ISLAM IS THE FUTURE - Destiny vs Sulaiman Ahmed Debate Review David Wood Apostate Prophet LIVE
- Islamic Sects
- Islamic Supremacy - Texts, Doctrines & Contested Readings
- Islamic Terror in the UK
- Islamism
- Islamophobia
- Jews in Islamic Countries
- Jihad Attacks
- Leftists and Islam
- majority Muslim countries
- Misc
- Moral Issues
- Muhammad
- Muslim Brotherhood
- Myths of Islam
- Polling
- Promotion of Islamist thinking worldwide
- Quran Quotes
- Quran
- Radical Islamists using Western arguments
- Religious Freedom in Muslim Countries
- Salafi movement
- Sam Shamoun on Quran and Muhammad Contradictions (PBD 684)
- Sexual Violence in Muslim Countries
- Sharia
- Ten Reasons Islam Is Not a Religion of Peace
- Terrorism, Violence & War
- The 1991 Muslim Brotherhood Explanatory Memorandum - Provenance, Meaning, and Limits
- The West Is Right to Be Suspicious of Islam - Jonathan Sacerdoti (Oxford Union, 2026)
- Woke Useful Idiots HELPED Islamists Take Power - Apostate Prophet
- Women's Rights
- Word play by Islamist
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- America a Christian Nation?
- Andrew Wilson Prove God Exists Logic
- Anselmian Ontological Argument
- Argument - 100x more likely to be sexually assaulted in a public school compared to a church
- Atheism
- Augustine Original Sin
- Augustine's Salvation
- Baptism
- Bible Notes
- Bishops in History
- Books
- A Shorter Summa - Peter Kreeft
- Authority Abusers- Breaking Free from Spiritual Abuse
- Christianity without the Cross - A History of Salvation in Oneness Pentecostalism
- City of Secrets - The Truth Behind the Murders at the Vatican
- Dominion - Tom Holland
- Fire from Heaven
- Healing Spiritual Abuse - How to Break Free from Bad Church Experiences
- Holy Horrors - An Illustrated History of Religious Murder and Madness
- Kingdom of the Cults, The
- Oneness Pentecostals and the Trinity
- Pedophiles and Priests - Anatomy of a Contemporary Crisis
- The Confessions - Saint Augustine (Bishop of Hippo)
- The End of Faith - Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
- The New Concise History of the Crusades
- The Sins of Scripture - Exposing the Bible's Texts of Hate to Reveal the God of Love
- The Vatican Exposed - Money, Murder, and the Mafia
- Twisted Scriptures
- Christian Explusions
- Christian Reforms
- Christian Values Vs. Civilization Yaron Brook Show
- Christianity as Western Foundation?
- christianity_enlightenment_fact_check_obsidian
- Christopher Hitchens Against the Catholic Church - Argument and Rhetoric Map
- Church Sexual Abuse
- Contingency Argument
- Countering Presuppositional Apologetics
- Debating Objective Morality by God
- Euthyphro Dilemma
- Filioque
- Fine Tuning Argument
- God is Subjective
- Holland vs. Siedento - Christianity’s Moral Revolution
- How to debate objective morality from God
- Jay Dyer vs Stefan Molyneux - God Debate and Commentary Analysis
- Kalam Cosmological Argument
- Militant Christian Masculinity
- Modal Ontological Argument
- Objective Moral Argument
- Presuppositional apologetics
- Presuppositionalism Destroyed Like You've Never Seen! Dr. Alex Malpass
- Stroud’s critique of transcendental arguments
- Suppression and Resurgence - Classical Learning from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance
- Transcendental Argument for God
- Trinity
- Vale of Tears - Augustine, Innocent III, and the Rejection of Earthly Happiness
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60.11.3 Judaism
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Books
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Jesus and John Wayne
- Jesus and John Wayne - 00 - Introduction
- Jesus and John Wayne - 01 - Saddling Up
- Jesus and John Wayne - 02 - John Wayne Will Save Your Ass
- Jesus and John Wayne - 03 - God's Gift to Man
- Jesus and John Wayne - 04 - Discipline and Command
- Jesus and John Wayne - 05 - Slaves and Soldiers
- Jesus and John Wayne - 06 - Going for the Jugular
- Jesus and John Wayne - 07 - The Greatest American Hero
- Jesus and John Wayne - 08 - War for the Soul
- Jesus and John Wayne - 09 - Tender Warriors
- Jesus and John Wayne - 10 - No More Christian Nice Guy
- Jesus and John Wayne - 11 - Holy Balls
- Jesus and John Wayne - 12 - Pilgrim's Progress in Camo
- Jesus and John Wayne - 13 - Why We Want to Kill You
- Jesus and John Wayne - 14 - Spiritual Badasses
- Jesus and John Wayne - 15 - A New High Priest
- Jesus and John Wayne - 16 - Evangelical Mulligans - A History
- Jesus and John Wayne - 17 - Conclusion
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Presuppositionalism Papers
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DEBATE Christianity Or Islam, Which Is Best for Society? Daniel Haqiqatjou Vs Andrew Wilson
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DEBATE Is Christianity Or Secular Humanism Best for Society? Mike Jones Vs Dan Barker
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New Convenant theology or Supersessionism replacement theory
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Religion
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Theological BULLSH*T! Richard Dawkins Challenges Ayaan Hirsi Ali's New-Found Christianity