The Unholy Truth covers the gap between what biblical scholars actually know and what most people sitting in pews on Sunday have ever been told. Pseudonymous letters passed off as Paul’s. A Yahweh who started out as one god among many in the Canaanite pantheon. Gospels written decades after the fact by authors who never met the man they wrote about. Councils where doctrine got hammered out by majority vote and everyone on the losing side got branded a heretic.

It’s standard material in seminaries and university religion departments. It just never makes it to the people raised to take the whole thing literally.

That’s the work here.

Textual criticism, church history, canon formation, the politics behind the doctrine, the parts of Christian and Islamic history that got sanded down or buried outright. No reverence for claims that can’t survive scrutiny, and no contempt for the people who hold them. Just the evidence, laid out plainly, so you can decide what to make of it.

If you grew up being told the Bible fell from Heaven intact and you’ve started to suspect the story is more complicated than that, you’re in the right place.

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