Debunking Christianity

I know this is a long podcast, just over 2 hours. But I think I raise a number of good points, some of which came out in the last half hour ...

What can happen when a prophet gets it wrong The Prophet Jeremiah—not the one in the Old Testament—but the Prophet Jeremiah Johnson of Nor...

Weighing probabilities

Remember this day: January 6th 2021. Jan. 6, 2021. 1/6/21.  It's the day Democrats take both houses of Congress with two duly elected se...

“Christianity is not too big to fail” As of today, a fifth of the 21 st  century is now behind us. How are we doing? Does the famous Charle...

Dr. Richard Carrier was probably the first scholar who recognized my work as important. He wrote blurbs for my books along with several chap...

The Ancient Christian Gospels as Historiae: A Secular-Critical Evaluation of M. David Litwa's "How the Gospels Became History"...

“Maybe leave the manger in the basement” So, what to talk about on this Christmas Friday? I could discuss  the Jesus birth narratives in M...

Johno Pearce is an indefatigable debunker of all things Christian. Recently he did a fantastic job of showing that "the infancy narrati...

Enjoy this discussion! Jenna writes: "I got to learn from John during this discussion, in depth, what we know about the likelihood of a...

Train Wreck Bible Verses The Bible is a dangerous book, actually—from the standpoint of preserving the faith. Conservative scholar Ben Wit...

I'm still being approached on Facebook Messenger by Dr. David Geisler   in his attempt to change my mind. He's  an Evangelical schol...

Written by Dale O'Neal:              To assess the morality of a culture, one must determine the point at which any culture crosses the ...

Religious Studies  recently reviewed the book by William Vanderburgh:  David Hume on Miracles, Evidence, and Probability.   In the Appendix ...

Its capacity for “Crazy-Making”    Is my title a dangerous generalization? How could there be new lows after the Crusades, the Inquisition...

Here is a text discussion I had with two family members, JA and TO on trusting the science behind Vaccines. I didn't know their views in...

Here is an excerpt from the Introduction to my 2016 anthology,  Christianity in the Light of Science , pp. 20-23. If you don't have it t...

I just finished my own contributions for my last anthology, tentatively titled,  The Incompatibility of God and Horrendous Suffering , to be...

Again the apostle Paul—what a surprise! It’s probably safe to say that most of the people in the world are not, at any given moment, shopp...

Copycat theology is a bad idea   “The Bible is the Word of God.” This is an idea that Christians don’t take seriously—come on, not by alon...

“Why I Became An Atheist” (WBA) was revolutionary for me. I first read it in 2016 when I was 18 years old. I had been doubting my faith for ...

Ziony Zevit is the Distinguished Professor in Bible and Northwest Semitic Languages in the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at the America...

Please  stop wasting our time and energy   I’m pretty sure that even the most devout Christians experience  flash episodes of atheism ; that...

Tales from the cult A few decades after its inception, the Ancient Jesus Mystery Cult produced writers who had a knack for fantasy literatu...

In a previous post I spoke on the topic,  Miracle Claims Asserted Without Relevant Objective Evidence Can Be Dismissed. Period!  At the end ...

I have been helped by reading and trying to incorporate the commands and/or language used from other attempts to better the Ten Commandments...

In case you haven't seen this.

Protecting the Bible: God wasn’t paying attention One of the most common criticisms of Christianity is that its claims are  incoherent : t...

“Take it to the Lord in prayer” Francis Collins, who headed the Human Genome Project, is a respected scientist who has taken a stand for Go...

Did You Miss the 2020 International Conference on Atheism? You're in Luck! N ot everyone was able to attend the conference, so we'v...