Detail, Albrecht Dürer, The Four Apostles, 1526.

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Recently, James O’Meara offered a fairly detailed review and critique of my book The Jesus Hoax. On the one hand, I want to thank him; as most writers know, any review is better than none at all! Any review is sure to prompt thoughts and debate on all sides of a given issue. On the other, it is a negative review — at times, unduly so — and hence I want to respond to some of his points and concerns. (more…)

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David Skrbina
The Jesus Hoax: How St. Paul’s Cabal Fooled the World for Two Thousand Years
Creative Fire Press, 2019

This short book presents itself as the latest in a genre whose brightest lights are Nietzsche’s The Antichrist (which the author quotes extensively) and Savitri Devi’s pamphlet Paul of Tarsus, or Christianity and Jewry (reviewed here; Skrbina has produced an excellent new and revised edition of her related work, Son of the Sun). (more…)

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Esau McCaulley
Reading While Black: African American Biblical Interpretation as an Exercise in Hope
Downers Grove, Illinois: Intervarsity Press, 2020

Esau McCaulley has been on the faculty of Chicago-area evangelical bastion Wheaton College (alma mater of the likes of Billy Graham) since 2019, where he serves as an assistant professor of the New Testament. He is also a priest in the Anglican Church (despite his Primitive Baptist roots) (more…)

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But when ye see Jerusalem encompassed with armies, then know that its desolation is drawn nigh. [1]

Constant Readers know that my go-to source for Radio Christianity, especially the apocalyptic sort, is Brother Stair. (more…)

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It has been a cliché for a long time now that Christianity is fundamentally a religion that seeks to unify mankind and do away with all distinctions between men, (more…)

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Since, against all justice, probability – and even common sense – the infamous neocons seem to have taken power once again (as witness the return of John Bolton, and the quickly following bombing campaign in Syria), it may be well to consider once again how out of touch, how foreign, how downright alien, the neocon is, vis-à-vis our native European traditions. (more…)

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Part 2 of 2 (Part One here)

Translated by Tatiana Danilova

The Fight for the Christian Truth

The truth, preached by Jesus, is the love for thy neighbor, with no exception. Against the aberration of the Jews, a deviation from the divine law, for which only the members of their people are their neighbors. (more…)

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Part 1 of 2 (Part Two here)

Translated by Tatiana Danilova

The Inaccuracy of Christian Theology (more…)

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The Human Bible New Testament
Translated and introduced by Robert M. Price
Cranford, N.J.: American Atheist Press, 2015

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