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[Friday Edition] Who Needs The Unholy Truth When You Have Bart D Ehrman?
He’s the best popularizer the field has produced, and you still can’t tell from the page where the consensus ends and where Bart begins.
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When Buddha Was a Christian Saint
For over a thousand years, Rome and Constantinople honored Siddhartha Gautama without ever knowing it.
Aug 27
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No, Ancient Priests Didn't Ban Pork for That Reason
Why the Hygiene Theory’s Complete Nonsense
Aug 26
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The 190-Year-Old Delusion in American Christianity
Ask an evangelical where the rapture comes from and they'll say Revelation. Yet, Revelation never mentions it
Aug 25
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Muhammad’s Personal Revelations in the Quran too Convenient for Comfort
Four wives for you, a fee to get a private meeting, and no exceptions. The man reciting those rules operated under a different set.
Aug 24
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[Friday Edition] How Two Thousand Years of Christian Contempt Set the Stage for the Holocaust
The church didn’t build the ovens. You it spent eighteen centuries teaching Europe who deserved them.
Aug 21
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Paul Admits It Himself, Three Times
Acts turned a young Pharisee’s zeal into a manhunt.
Aug 20
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How Israel's God Took the Jobs of the Gods He Beat
From Ugaritic tablets to temple shrines: How Yahweh inherited El’s family, Baal’s storm, and Asherah’s throne.
Aug 19
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Did the Jews Kill the One Precious Son of God?
The charge has been running for nineteen centuries on a story that contradicts itself in four different places, three of them inside the Bible.
Aug 18
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The Lost Gospel of James and the Creation of the Virgin Birth
How a piece of second-century fan fiction gave Christianity Mary’s parents, her permanent virginity, the cave, the ox, and a doctrine the Western church…
Aug 17
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[Friday Edition] The God Both Atheists and Believers Get Wrong
Most debates about religion are stuck arguing over a "magician" god that even classical theologians abandoned centuries ago.
Aug 14
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The Secret Gospel That Disappeared Inside a Church Library
In 1958, a historian found a manuscript showing the early church cut a scene out of Mark. Then the evidence vanished, and the detective work began.
Aug 13
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