Reading Time: 4 minutes What was the Star of Bethlehem—a nova? A planet? A star? A comet? And can any of these explain, “the star … went ahead of [the magi] until it stopped over the place where the child was”?
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The Bat Christmas Pageant Ever
Reading Time: < 1 minute Happy holidays, folks. Support Blinky & Sal on Patreon and check out the barbarian adventures of Barb on Webtoon.
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“Historical” Bookends to a Historically Vacuous Life
Reading Time: 4 minutes This is an early draft section for one of the first chapters in my new book-in-the-writing, The Resurrection: A Critical Examination of the Easter Story: The birth and death of Jesus are historical bookends to the life of Jesus, obviously, even if the theology continues in Acts and the Epistles of Paul, as problematic as […]
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Mental Contortions Required of Christians to Believe the Nativity Accounts
Reading Time: 7 minutes It’s that time of year again. I have, at different Christmases, run some series debunking the historical claims within the Bible (specifically the Gospels of Matthew and Luke) to show them as wanting, running alongside my book The Nativity: A Critical Examination (UK here). My book is a one-stop-shop for all things skeptical concerning the Nativity. I really wanted to […]
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Debunking the Nativity: Daniel’s Magi
Reading Time: 10 minutes It’s that time of year again. I have, at different Christmases, run some series debunking the historical claims within the Bible (specifically the Gospels of Matthew and Luke) to show them as wanting, running alongside my book The Nativity: A Critical Examination (UK here). My book is a one-stop-shop for all things skeptical concerning the Nativity. I really wanted […]
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Debunking the Nativity: A Christmas Round-Up
Reading Time: 2 minutes It’s that time of year again. I have, at different Christmases, run some series debunking the historical claims within the Bible (specifically the Gospels of Matthew and Luke) to show them as wanting, running alongside my book The Nativity: A Critical Examination (UK here). My book is a one-stop-shop for all things skeptical concerning the Nativity. I really wanted to […]
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Mother Mary Joins the #MeToo Movement
Reading Time: < 1 minute This video pokes some fun at the Virgin Mary conception of Jesus story, all of the points of which I mention in my book The Nativity: A Critical Examination (UK). Check them both out! Thanks to the video makers for letting me know about this. If you have any videos you think readers here will appreciate, […]
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William Lane Craig Given “Difficult” Questions to “Answer”
Reading Time: 3 minutes This comes from the New York Times, questions from Nicholas Kristof: I question William Lane Craig of Talbot School of Theology and Houston Baptist University about Christianity. This is the latest installment in my occasional series of conversations about Christianity. Previously, I’ve spoken with the Rev. Timothy Keller,Jimmy Carter and Cardinal Joseph Tobin. Here’s my interview of William Lane […]
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Challenging the Theological Truth of the Nativity
Reading Time: 6 minutes As many will know, I have written a book that sets out to particularly debunk the historical narrative of the birth accounts of Jesus – The Nativity: A Critical Examination. It simply didn’t happen like that. The full gamut of posts on the subject appears at the bottom of this article. What I would like to […]
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Returning to Debunking the Nativity: A Christmas Round-Up
Reading Time: 2 minutes I have, at different Christmases, run some series debunking the historical claims within the Bible (specifically the Gospels of Matthew and Luke) to show them as wanting, running alongside my book The Nativity: A Critical Examination (UK here). This, in true Christmas misery-inducing skepticism, has included critically analysing Boney M. So I thought I would provide you with a go-to […]