There is no doubt that Bart Ehrman is a brilliant author. Two of his books are particularly worth investing in: Jesus Before the Gospels: How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their
I feel like triggering Dave Armstrong and what better way to do this than to get his longjohns in a twist about the Noah's Flood story. This is from a chapter
Here is another guest piece by the inimitable David Austin, this time on the topic of the Empty Tomb. The “Empty Tomb” & The “Minimal Facts” argument The “Empty Tomb” claim has been
I am preparing this morning for the net interview for MythVision on my Resurrection book (The Resurrection: A Critical Examination of the Easter Story [UK]) - today, we are talking empty tomb. It&
I sent regular theistic commenter Verbose Stoic (VS) a chapter I was once commissioned to write by John W. Loftus for his anthology Christianity in the Light of Science. VS has written a
If you are the owner of a business that harms people, are you still entitled to maintain your profits? Let’s say your business provides an essential service to the public, and it
As I have said many times before, I really do feel like my worldview is solid, that there are no crumbling or missing bricks in my epistemological wall. It is why I wrote
Dennis Prager, also known as a bad human being, has contracted Covid. The potential schadenfreude is compounded by the reasoning he gives. He wanted the disease so he could build up a natural
I really enjoyed this interview. We touched a lot of bases here, starting off with the lack of secularism in education in the UK before talking internationally about the Freedom of Thought Report
In the closing stages of writing my latest book, The Resurrection: A Critical Examination of the Easter Story [UK] (please grab yourself a copy!), I had a few test readers. One was David
I know it's a myth; it's obviously a myth. But go with it. As I am writing elsewhere: One of a number of Hebrew Bible stories that shows that
Matthew is the only Gospel to include the story of the guards at the tomb - supposedly the only actual eyewitnesses of the Resurrection - in the Resurrection narrative. For a number of