Reading Time: 5 minutes The Bible clearly demands child sacrifice. And it also clearly forbids it. How do we make sense of this?
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Jesus as a child sacrifice?
Reading Time: 5 minutes A simple argument that tries to defend Christian dogma by correcting a clumsy phrasing—that Jesus was a child sacrifice—goes off the rails in a surprising number of ways.
Posted inHistory
Carrier’s Mythicism Is a Win-Win
Reading Time: 11 minutes Jesus scholarship is often… “a disguise to do theology and call it history, do autobiography and call it biography, do Christian apologetics and call it academic scholarship.” John Dominic Crossan, Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography I’ve read a lot of Richard Carrier’s work, but very little on his case for the mythicism of Jesus. This is partly […]
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Jesus’ Sacrifice Is Infinitesimally Small
Reading Time: 2 minutes Many Christians will maintain that the sacrifice of Jesus was one of the greatest sacrifices of all. I maintain, on the other hand, that the sacrifice is incredibly marginal at best. The nature of this criticism does depend on whether or not you believe that God punishes people eternally. This could be wrapped up in […]
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The Todd Delusion
Reading Time: < 1 minute Todd is dead. An emotionally overwrought Spatsby is visited by a familiar apparition. Could it be? But what does it want?
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Fragment Tells When Abraham Actually Killed Isaac
Reading Time: 3 minutes It’s the classic biblical tale that speaks of obligation to divine commands. But it’s all okay in the end because God provides a ram for Abraham so he doesn’t have to sacrifice his son. That would be terrible and nothing that God would ever condone anyway (Jephthah’s daughter, anyone?). In April, many outlets reported on […]
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Todd’s Happy Faith Test Murder Fun Times
Reading Time: < 1 minute Even gods like Todd get bored at times. Fortunately, he has a devoted follower in Spatsby!
Similarities between this comic and the story of Abraham and Isaac are purely coincidental.
Posted inDeath & Dying
Jesus’ Sacrifice Wasn’t All That
Reading Time: 2 minutes There is a ubiquitous notion that Jesus sacrificed an awful lot for our sins. Putting Atonement to the side for the minute (after all, it’s a completely nonsensical ideal), let us consider the sacrifice that Jesus made. So what happened to Jesus at the end of his life? Well, we know that, unbeknownst to him […]
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Even Gods Need a Pick-Me-Up Sometimes
Reading Time: < 1 minute We all need a friend to cheer us up from time to time. But what do you do if you’re feeling down and you’re Todd Almighty?
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A Succinct Synopsis of the Nonsense of Easter
Reading Time: < 1 minute Easter is the time for the christian church. Christmas is all lovely and present-y, but Easter is what it’s all really about. It is the climax of Jesus’ existence. But this is really what is going on: JesusManGod sacrificed himself to himself to sit on his own right hand for an eternity in heaven to pay for […]