by VorJack
Well, it looks like it’s time for the mythicists to pack up. The Telegraph suggests that an archeologist has found a nail used in the crucifixion:
Nail from Christ’s crucifixion found?
A nail dating from the time of Christ’s crucifixion has been found at a remote fort believed to have once been a stronghold of [...]
by VorJack
While reading about the Flat Earth Society, I ran across a reference to a little-known contest that took place 140 years ago today. I decided that the coincidence of dates was too good to pass up.
On January 12, 1870, a message ran in the magazine Scientific Opinion, offering a wager of up to [...]
by VorJack
I may have found a new hero.
In a post at Religion in American History, I just learned about an atheist newspaperman who I’d never heard of before. His name was Charles Chilton Moore (1837-1906), an atheist who modeled himself after his contemporary, Robert Ingersoll.
One major difference was region – Moore resided in Lexington, [...]
by VorJack
Here in Albany, the most famous of our odd Christian sects were the Shakers. Today the Shakers are most known for their furniture and their celibacy, but in 18th century they were known for their group dances.
The dances became a tourist attraction of a sort. The hall where the Shakers danced actually [...]
by VorJack
The Tim Minchin clip from last week reminded me of a theory that was going around for a while.
The pseudonymous Christoph Luxenberg wrote a work titled A Syro-Aramaic Reading of the Koran, in which he maintained that Muhammad and other early Muslims incorporated certain words and phrases from Aramaic into their Arabic. He [...]
by VorJack
… to these books about self-help. Self-help is a multi billion dollar industry in America, selling millions of books. Here are a few that take a look at the movement from the outside.
Legacy of the Occult
Pullquote: ”The leaders in [New Thought] have had an intuitive belief in the all-saving power of healthy-minded [...]
by VorJack
You may know of Dr. James McGrath, a professor of religion at Butler University. He’s the author of two excellent books on the history of Christianity, The Burial of Jesus and The Only True God. He’s also a blogger at Exploring Our Matrix, where he blogs about religion, biblical history and the [...]
by VorJack
The New York Times has come out with a very interesting article about the fight over textbook history standards in Texas: How Christian Were the Founders?. It’s a long, weaving article that uses the debate in Texas as a frame to discuss the movement among Conservative Christians to inject more explicit mentions of [...]
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