The Spectre is Now a Christian Shill

It’s official, The Spectre is now a Christian shill. I’ve recently had the immense displeasure of reading Crisis Aftermath: The Spectre and it may have ruined my interest in the supernatural comic book genre.
Ok, I’m not really much of a comic reader of late. I was simply trying to re-connect with my youth and catch [...]

Book Review: Deconstructing Jesus by Robert M. Price

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 to answer that question.
Deconstructing Jesus is not as [...]

Book Review: Who Wrote the Bible by Richard Friedman

Believe every word it says, or dismiss it all as bunk, there is no question that the Judeo-Christian Bible is one of the most controversial and perplexing books ever compiled. Conservative Christians commonly claim that all events mentioned in it are factual, yet any attempt to study the true historicity of the text is met [...]

Mithras

Mithraism was a mystery religion (a religion requiring an initiation rite and secrecy from non-members) popular in the Roman Empire from the first to the fourth century AD. The members met in a cave or other underground structure, known as a mithraeum, and we have found hundreds of them all over the Roman Empire (modern [...]

Book Review: The Jesus Puzzle

Was the figure of Jesus of Nazareth historical? Historian and classical scholar Earl Doherty wants to know. In the book The Jesus Puzzle: Did Christianity Begin with a Mythical Christ?, Earl examines the the idea that the central figure to the Christian religion was a mythical figure, a concept more popularized by G.A. Wells. Earl [...]

Book Review: Lost Christianities by Bart D Ehrman

The early history of Christianity is murky and confusing, even to scholars. Even though Christianity separated itself from many other religions by relying heavily on written texts, many of those documents , documents that would fill in many gaps in the movement’s early history, are missing. The loss of some of these documents is just [...]

Book Review: godless by Dan Barker

Dan Barker’s Losing Faith in Faith has been for a very long time not only the best selling book on atheism, but practically the only book on atheism. Even though independently published, it was the number one book about atheism until the God Delusion was released and set the world of atheists books on it’s [...]

Book Review: The Incredible Shrinking Son of Man

The subtitle of Dr. Robert M Price’s book The Incredible Shrinking Son of Man tells the whole story: How Reliable is the Gospel Tradition? And that is the question we all have, as either atheists or theists. How reliable is this thing? As atheists, we don’t believe in the supernatural aspects relayed on the pages, [...]

Book Review: Atheism Advanced

David Eller’s Atheism Advanced is not your run of the mill atheist tome, rehashing the old logical arguments against holding a god belief. It reads, instead, as an anthropological study, and it closely scrutinizes this thing that we call religion. I learned the answer to questions I never even thought of asking before; such as [...]

Book Review: The Bible Unearthed

The Bible Unearthed
by Israel Finkelstein and Neil Asher Silberman
Since Israel and the religions that formed there receive so much attention world wide, it is odd to remember that it is one of the world’s countries that we know least about historically. Not only has archaeological research been difficult to perform there until the later [...]