In broad outline and in detail, the life of Jesus as portrayed in the gospels corresponds to the worldwide Mythic Hero Archetype in which a divine hero's birth is supernaturally predicted and conceived, the infant hero escapes attempts to kill… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
But if they did really refer to some kind of a "personal relationship," it would in effect be a case of channeling. I suspect this is why fundamentalists who condemn New Age channelers do not dismiss it as a fraud...,… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
"You ask me how I know he lives?" asks the revival chorus. "He lives within my heart." Exactly! A figment. — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
The Koran was assembled from a variety of prior Hagarene texts (hence the contradictions re Jesus' death) in order to provide the Moses-like Muhammad… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
The notorious tendency of conservative apologists and New Age paperback writers alike is to leap from mere possibility to the right to believe. "If… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
Real morality is not the product of fearing a spanking. But what does fundamentalist hell-belief encourage? It retards any developing moral judgment by freezing… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
“The answer is simple: if you cannot find meaning inherent in life right now, as you live it in this visible world, the addition… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
“Warren is stuck in Sunday School-level, pretheological fundamentalism. It is religious infantilism of the kind that Freud to conclude that religion is nothing more… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
Fundamentalism fills you with answers before you even think to ask the questions. — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
“Born-again living seemed to me just a crutch which no longer facilitated healing and growth, but actually protracted immaturity.” — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
“But if subjective pietism is not the real crux of this all-important Gospel, if it is instead belief in the plan of salvation, how… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
I wonder how appropriate it is to try to 'argue someone into the kingdom.' Many apologists hotly deny any such charge, but I don't… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
“I bet you've seen the fundamentalist bumper sticker that says, "God said it! I believe it! That settles it!" It must be a typo… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
The born-again gospel promises joy and peace of mind, but it does so by prolonging childhood. — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
