Jonathan MS Pearce

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Oct 13, 2021

Protectors or Infectors?

This week, hundreds of firefighters in Los Angeles filed a notice of intent to sue the city over its vaccine mandate, saying an Oct. 20 deadline to get vaccinated is “extreme and outrageous.

Oct 9, 2021

David Madison on "The Resurrection"

David Madison (author of Ten Things Christians Wish Jesus Hadn't Taught) has recently read my The Resurrection: A Critical Examination of the Easter Story [UK] and has written a powerful post

Oct 9, 2021

Covid Statistics, and Damned Liars

I am tired of the people coming here insisting that the vaccines are killing us, and to support their position, take the published statistics apart, misinterpret them, cherry-pick them, and cite statements out

Oct 8, 2021

Memory, Oral Transmission, and the Gospels

Bart Ehrman's book Jesus Before the Gospels is really quite excellent. It's a must-read for anyone looking into how stories became Gospels, about memory, memorisation, distorted memories, and transmission.

Oct 5, 2021

Satan and Most Prayer Are Nonsensical

I've just had another interview with Gnostic Informant, initially continuing from the previous one in the context of heaven and hell, moving on to talking about Satan ("A great conversational

Oct 4, 2021

Marketing the Messiah

I started watching this on Amazon Prime, but it is no longer on there, so I was really happy to find it legitimately on YouTube. It's an excellent documentary that covers

Oct 4, 2021

Progressive White Evangelicals?

Is there such a thing? Well, and interestingly, yes. And what is worth a debate is that their views are more coherent, arguably, with what Jesus actually (well, supposedly actually) stood for: https:

Oct 3, 2021

Purveyors of False Vaccine Data

Some commenters on my last article “Would Jesus Get Vaccinated” quoted various sources that claimed that the Covid vaccines are “killing more people than they are helping,” or are ineffective and dangerous for

Oct 2, 2021

Quotes of the Day on Noah's Flood

I am certainly flooding the blog with a deluge of similarly themed articles. Following a number of articles (linked below), under which there have been some excellent comments, I thought I would furnish