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1. Not So Polite Dinner Conversation – a great paper on how cults rationalize their nonsense – Club Schadenfreude on “The Rationalization Hypothesis: Is a Vision of Jesus Necessary for the Rise of the Resurrection Belief?” — by Kris KomarnitskyMay 1, 2022
  […] very good paper on how cults, aka religions, can invent nonsense and end up believing it to be true.“The…
2. Autorzy Ewangelii: Kim byli? - Tradycja w świetle badań historycznych on Authorial Third Person Narration–in Thucydides, Josephus, Xenophon, and Caesar–Versus the Gospel of MatthewMay 6, 2021
  […] osobie. W przypadku tych klasycznych autorów sprawa ma się trochę inaczej. Matthew Ferguson wskazuje na kilka niuansów, które zwięźle…
3. Mike on “The Rationalization Hypothesis: Is a Vision of Jesus Necessary for the Rise of the Resurrection Belief?” — by Kris KomarnitskyJune 29, 2020
  Suppose, doe the sake of argument that such predictions were based on talk of the general resurrection, but were modified…
4. taterskank on “The Rationalization Hypothesis: Is a Vision of Jesus Necessary for the Rise of the Resurrection Belief?” — by Kris KomarnitskyJune 28, 2020
  You're right that most scholars think the predictions *in their canonical form* are inventions but there is nothing implausible about…
5. Review, part 11. Comparing the Lives and Deaths of Aesop and Jesus (Litwa: How the Gospels Became History) | on Lawrence Wills: “The Life of Aesop and the Hero Cult Paradigm in the Gospel Tradition”January 28, 2020
  […] Lawrence Wills: “The Life of Aesop and the Hero Cult Paradigm in the Gospel Tradition” […]

Nicholas Covington Reviews “The Case for Christ: The Movie”

Posted on January 7, 2018 by Celsus

Nicholas Covington, who blogs at Hume’s Apprentice, has recently written a review on Amazon of the new The Case for Christ movie edition. Covington’s review discusses issues such as the preponderance of post-mortem hallucinations in religious movements, the growing legendary … Continue reading →