The common answer is, of course, around 30. There was a tradition that early Christian church leader Irenaeus (author of Against Heresies) that he lived until age 50.
Of course, there is the tradition that he never lived and therefore never died. That’s a fun one as well.
In The Incredible Shrinking Son of Man, Robert M. Price asked, is the gospel tradition reliable? The answer was an emphatic: no. But, if the traditional explanation of the Christian religion is not accurate, where did the Jesus mythos come from? Deconstructing Jesus is his attempt to answer that question.
Deconstructing Jesus is not as easy [...]
I found this hilariously bad blueprint for Noah’s ark in a book called The Compact Timeline of the Bible.
See, this is why idjits believe that the biblical flood story is real. Because some people people feel perfectly fine about making shit like this up. The Noah myth in the bible is told in Genesis 6:5 [...]
If you’re a reading junkie, books can get quite expensive, especially skeptical books on religion that often are only published in smaller quantities and therefore are priced higher. Not to mention, many of the Higher Critical standards were originally published in German (being home to the Tübingen school) and don’t often get translated into [...]
Early this year, the Pope said, enough’s enough. He’s sick of all the Virgin Mary sightings showing up in toast, on griddles, in tree stumps … he’s cracking down, damn it! Further claims of Mary sightings will be investigated fully by a team of “psychiatrists, psychologists, theologians and priests who will investigate the claims systematically”.
Well, [...]
The US House and Senate passed legislation to carve “In God We Trust” into the visitor center of the Capitol. What part of not endorsing a religion do they not understand? It’s pretty plain and simple, people can follow any religion they like, the “government” can’t.
What are these people, dogs? Having to mark their territory [...]
A bishop has advised that holy water be removed from churches in a bid to halt the spread of swine flu.
The Bishop of Chelmsford, the Right Reverend John Gladwin, said at some churches people were invited make a sign of the cross using holy water.
“The water in stoups can easily become a source of infection [...]
Why is it that the “spiritual” leaders of cults are always on trial for crimes of the earthly sort? If this sort of scandal keeps up, I’m going to start thinking that they are nothing but deceitful nuts.
Tony Alamo, aka Papa Tony, who had previously been imprisoned for tax evasion, is currently on trial for [...]
