The Secular Frontier

As I said in a previous post, no. But, logic doesn't stop the right from claiming that it was. Benny Johnson left Charlie Kirk and Alina Habba SPEECHLESS after asking them if Donald Trump dodging death was the most viewed miracle in human history: ... Read Article

JD Vance has a known history of rejecting Trump. He has said of Trump: I'm a never Trump guy Never liked him Terrible candidate Idiot if you voted for him Might be America's Hitler Might be a cynical Asshole Cultural Heroine ... Read Article

Well, Trump is claiming God did. On Truth Social Trump's reaction to the events was: Thank you to everyone for your thoughts and prayers yesterday, as it was God alone who prevented the unthinkable from happening. We will FEAR NOT, but instead re ... Read Article

One of the hallmarks of contemporary conservative theology is the idea that Jesus will come and rapture (take away) the church during the End Times. See for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psln9BvU8Do But is the rapture Biblical, or read ... Read Article

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7K3Q-OMXuRs&t Christian communities face growing political divide as religious affiliation declines. More than a quarter of Americans now claim no religious affiliation, a finding from the Pew Research Center. Tha ... Read Article

Enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrU5X5iep4Q ... Read Article

Here is the presentation: https://www.youtube.com/live/gv4bh0qVYgc Here are the corresponding peer reviewed articles (top two on list) ... Read Article

All Oklahoma schools are now required to incorporate the Bible and the Ten Commandments in their curriculum, the state's superintendent announced. The Oklahoma memorandum follows a law in Louisiana passed June 19, that requires all public classroo ... Read Article

A group of nine Louisiana families with children in public schools filed suit in federal court today to block HB 71, a new state law requiring all public elementary, secondary, and postsecondary schools to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom ... Read Article

Growing up in the fundamentalist evangelical flock I believed my Pentecostal pastor when he told me God had revealed to him that I, a scrawny little schoolgirl who came to church because I had nothing better to do, possessed the gift of divine healing. I ... Read Article

ABSTRACT: This is Part B of a three-part literary application and defense of Robyn Faith Walsh’s recent (2021) hypothesis that the Gospels are not, as is usually thought, the product of literate spokespersons conveying the oral tradition of their commun ... Read Article

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Supreme Court rejects challenge to abortion pill mifepristone, allowing drug to stay on the market. CNN—The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a lawsuit challenging the Food and Drug Administration’s approach to regulating the abortion pill mifep ... Read Article

MAGA pastor/Trump cultist Mark Burns has advanced to a runoff in South Carolina, putting him one step closer to Congress. Burns has promised that if elected, he'll work to see that those who promote LGBTQ rights are held "accountable for treason." Se ... Read Article

James McGrath published his major trade book on John the Baptist today: The scholarly version comes in October: John of History, Baptist of Faith: The Quest for the Historical Baptizer ... Read Article

Justice Samuel Alito spoke candidly about the ideological battle between the left and the right — discussing the difficulty of living “peacefully” with ideological opponents in the face of “fundamental” differences that “can’t be compro ... Read Article

If you haven't checked them out yet, do take a look at Freethinker Podcast and the Internet Infidels Discussion Board Here is a great sample podcast where our Vice President Edouard Tahmizian Interviews renowned Biblical Studies scholars Prof Dennis R ... Read Article

Saint John the Baptist, a 1540 painting by Titian Prof James McGrath's new books in John the Baptist are coming out soon and he has done 3 guest posts about them on Bart Ehrman's blog. But did Jesus know John the Baptist? Certainly, John baptiz ... Read Article

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So, I have a new essay out - part 1 of three on Robyn Faith Walsh. Check it out: Gospels, Classics, and the Erasure of the Community: A Critical Review Testing the Hypothesis of Robyn Faith Walsh’s The Origins of Early Christian Literature, Part A ... Read Article

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12bU6BFsStU Sufficiently advanced aliens would be able to capture vast quantities of energy from their star using a massive structure called a Dyson sphere. Such a device would give off an infrared heat signatu ... Read Article

The argument seems to be they should be allowed to have the jets because they really enjoy using them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWt5PJhCmmg ... Read Article

One of the slam dunks scholars as diverse as Bart Ehrman and John Loftus name against the existence of the Christian God is the problem of horrendous suffering, for surely the world is not reflective of a powerful, loving God. If there is such a God, why ... Read Article

The "not religiously affiliated" group is now a large societal group, although strict atheism is not yet surging. See article HERE. ... Read Article