Reading Time: 5 minutes Just to remind people of what I have been up to of late and what I plan for the near future (and a book that might be right up your alleys). Let’s start with the now. I have just released a book called The Family Book of Word of the Day. For a Year. Every Year. […]
The Nativity: A Critical Examination
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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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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 […]
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(The Worst) Quote of the Day (Ever): JohnM on Probability and Whatnot.
Reading Time: 7 minutes Holy cow. Get ready for this. I am not trying to be rhetorical here, but these are corkers, and none of them in a good way. The total lack of understanding is almost embarrassing. Should I waste my time dealing with these comments? Probably not. It gets frustrating when an argument goes like this: JP: […]
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Conflicting Genealogies of Jesus and JohnM’s Thesis of a Matrilineal Bloodline Refuted. Again.
Reading Time: 13 minutes It’s all so painful, watching apologists insist and insist on a thesis in light of it being thoroughly refuted. So here I go again, in some kind of masochistic use of my time. I will say this again, as I did a few years ago, because the same apologist commenter has returned to spout the […]
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Debunking the Nativity: Ancestral Maths
Reading Time: 5 minutes As I have pointed out numerous times, the census as claimed in the Gospel of Luke, is simply incoherent. I have given out a challenge to one of the commenters here. Here is my challenge in the form of statements that the apologist has to address: A client kingdom has never been taxed directly or had such […]
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The Nativity Census Challenge: Update
Reading Time: 3 minutes For any of you who haven’t been reading the threads on the census, a challenge that I set to See Noevo to answer, I would like to update you on what he has delivered by way of riposte: For longtime readers here, you might be surprised to learn that JohnM has returned to the fray. […]