I'm looking for non-bias Religious History, Facts only. No theories or opinions. ?

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woogglybear

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I am looking for non-bias, non-opinionated religious history. Just the Facts. example: "this happened this date", "this was changed by this guy during this time period", etc... Karen Armstrong and Carl Jung both throw in their theories and opinions on how we may have been or what they think we were thinking. I want just the facts, without a christian or anti-christian view point and without someones own personal ideas. Any suggestions?
 
I wish you well in your quest for knowledge, but I find that this is not the place to get it without screaming and arguing from opposing factions. You would fare much better looking up factual sites on the web, if you are not sure where to start try jeeves.com and work from the answers there. You will then be led to all the info there is available via other links.
 
The Bible in itself is a history book . There are thousand of historic documents that support the writings of the Bible . You will have to travel though if you really want to know the truth . To start , you should really read the Bible to learn all the countries involved in world history at that time and work forward from there . The only way I see it from your question is that you must do it yourself . That way you will have no excuse not to believe since it will be all fact for you . Or , if you don't , then how could you believe any world history at all .The Bible is not the only book that testified to God , but , it is the only book that God says is His testimony to us ...
 
The best history I know is "Outline of History" by H. G. Wells. He makes a real effort to avoid partisanship. And unlike Gibbon, he's a graceful writer, easy to read.
 
If you're interested in Christianity, try the New Catholic Encyclopedia (15 volumes). As a reference book, it tries to keep an objective editorial style. You could also read the Roman historians, though they weren't focused specifically on religion.

If you're interested in other religions, maybe the World Religions Recerence Library would be helpful. It's another multi-volume set of encyclopedias.

If you'e interested in the religions of pre-litereary societies like pagan Europe, you're pretty much stuck with personal ideas, as there is pretty much no other record (since the people didn't record their history).

You can probably find the Catholic Encyclopedia and the World Religions titles at your local library.
 
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