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Sometimes Christian apologists say there are only three options to who Jesus was: a liar, a lunatic or the Lord. But there…
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You can’t believe something just because someone else desperately wants you to.
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In the entire first Christian century Jesus is not mentioned by a single Greek or Roman historian, religion scholar, politician, philosopher or…
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Traditionally in Christian circles, Judas in fact has been associated with Jews. Of being traitors, avaricious, who in fact, betray Jesus, who…
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There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty.
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Different authors have different points of view. You can't just say, 'I believe in the Bible.
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In terms of the historical record, I should also point out that there is no account in any ancient source whatsoever about…
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The search for truth takes you where the evidence leads you, even if, at first, you don't want to go there.
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[P]eople need to use their intelligence to evaluate what they find to be true and untrue in the Bible. This is how…
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The problem then with Jesus is that he cannot be removed from his time and transplanted into our own without simply creating…
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In Matthew, Jesus declares, “Whoever is not with me is against me.” In Mark, he says,“Whoever is not against us is for…
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I do gravitate toward 19th century writers, and I never mind being compared with some of the most memorable writers from that…
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When I say that George Eliot has long been my hero, I mean to include those aspects of her thought and temperament…
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The novel at its nineteenth-century pinnacle was a Judaized novel: George Eliot and Dickens and Tolstoy were all touched by the Jewish…
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England opened up the world of literature for me. Not really having a world of my own, I made up for my…
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I…
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