'The Role of Religion of Education'

Or - 'The role of Education in Religion'!

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

Price £2.45 (inc p&p)

'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 .

Price £2.45 (inc p&p)

ISBN 0-9550671-0-3

'Challenging 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.

Price £2.45 (inc p&p)

ISBN 0-9550671-2-X

This theme is detailed further in:-

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.

Price £2.45 (inc p&p)

ISBN 09550671-3-8

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.

 

 

   Price £2.45 (inc p&p)

 

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