The Secular Frontier

Check out Ed's latest interview with Dr. Robert M Price: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B35R-HfVkcM ... Read Article

Check out Keith Augustine skeptically addressing the life after death hypothesis, especially 15 minutes near the end and forward. ... Read Article

It's one of the great literary mysteries that Luke researched his account and Paul is the great hero of Acts, yet Luke does not seem to have read Paul's letters. Unless there is something else going on, like satire. It is often commented by secular cr ... Read Article

There is nothing indicated about the miraculous nature of Jesus's birth in Paul or Mark. Scholars thereby generally conclude the virgin birth was a later invention by Matthew and Luke. The two genealogies of Joseph's bloodline in Matthew and Luke might ... Read Article

ROBERT COSTA talks about Tim Alberta and the odd bedfellows of a morally corrupt Trump and religious ideals. In the end, a sport analogy may be apt. If my favorite team is in the baseball playoffs, I would probably want the pitcher who is most likely ... Read Article

Here Trump says if you don't like "our religion," you're not immigrating into America. There will be ideological screenings/tests. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-ytpojdA4I ... Read Article

We lost John Lennon 43 years ago today. Here is his great song about secularism: Imagine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkgkThdzX-8 ... Read Article

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Brand new - Check it out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpnaR6RNvi0 ... Read Article

Checkmate, Atheists lol: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4yBvvGi_2A ... Read Article

The problem of evil and suffering has long been a solid critique against theism. Recently, a conservative apologist has taken another swipe at this, writing: If science ever leads to the creation of fully functional AI robots, human beings will be th ... Read Article

Above memes created and shared by @YoursMemely on Twitter for the purpose of defending Islam and being reposted. My position is if the founder of a religion took a child bride, this invalidates their status as an authority on how to live life. ... Read Article

From the article: Written by Scott McKay, a local Louisiana politics blogger, the book, “The Revivalist Manifesto,” gives credence to unfounded conspiracy theories often embraced by the far-right – including the “Pizzagate” hoax, which false ... Read Article

Politically moderate and left-leaning evangelicals appear to have been most impacted by Trump-era: See analysis HERE ... Read Article

Did Jesus have the conservative evangelical inerrant view of scripture that nothing should be changed or added? Clearly not, he challenged conventional wisdom such as regarding the sabbath. Regarding love of neighbor he clarified "43 “You have he ... Read Article

Reactions have certainly not all been positive: How will history judge him? ... Read Article

No, as near as we can figure Jesus taught forgiveness did not come through sacrificial payment, but rather repentance that then resulted in God forgiving. Ehrman will deal with this in his upcoming book and briefly outlines the issue here (SEE TIME 23:48 ... Read Article

Conservative Christians may tell you the bible is inerrant, and cite as a proof text 4 Timothy 3:16-76: 16 All Scripture is inspired by God and beneficial for teaching, for rebuke, for correction, for training in righteousness; 17 so that the man or w ... Read Article

New documentary out about the Roman influence creating Christianity featuring Robert Price and Robert Eisenman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHOK66qj9xc&t Relatedly, check out my essay on the Noble Lie Theory of Christian Origins ... Read Article

I just wanted to share this Mythvision interview from yesterday with Dr. Richard C. Miller.  It raises the interesting point that the mythicism of Price and Carrier isn't even given a seat at the table by most scholars when discussing Christian origins, ... Read Article

If any of you are suspecting speaking in tongues is a little crazy, please do watch this and alleviate all doubt, lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ6HVSyxIIE If you are insight impatient like me start watching at 11:21ff and see how conservati ... Read Article

This is an interesting video by Rationality Rules pointing out it's unclear why Ayaan converted and even what she thinks Christianity means ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COfOeYq-Ln0 ... Read Article

When we look at the gospels, we see that Mark was written first and Matthew and Luke used Mark as a source. However, there is also material common to Matthew and Luke that does not come from Mark, and so scholars usually suppose there was another now los ... Read Article

Robyn Faith Walsh's proposal of the dependance of Mark on Paul and the Pauline origin of the Last Supper: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjRUy4TncYo&t For more on Mark's use of Paul, see: https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/15934 ... Read Article

The Hidden Brain Connections Between Our Hands and Tongues: Sticking out your tongue while doing delicate work with your hands reveals a history of evolutionary relationships. From the article: Where did this coordination come from? It likely origi ... Read Article