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Centuries of Lying in the Name of Christianity: A Review of Forged, by Bart D. Ehrman

“The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.” ~Thomas Paine Professor Bart Ehrman has done something that more than 99 percent of American Christians have failed to do. He has devoted much of his adult life to a serious study of the New Testament. Ehrman commenced his studies at a fundamentalist Bible college, Moody Bible Institute, before completing his undergraduate education at Wheaton College. While at Wheaton, Ehrman did what every serious student of the New Testament must do; he studied Greek. As he explained, “I took Greek, so that I could read the New Testament in its original language.” [p. 4] After graduating from Wheaton, Ehrman went to Princeton Theological … Read entire article »

Filed under: Book Reviews, Christianity

What Say Ye, Bum and Scum, Today?

Do you remember the period, during President Obama’s administration, when former Vice President Cheney was accusing the new president of conducting a foreign policy based on weakness and conciliation, a foreign policy guaranteed to result in more terrorist attacks on the United States? Granted, Cheney’s smears were part of a campaign to rehabilitate the Bush/Cheney regime and prompt Americans to forget that the worst terrorist attack in American history occurred during their “watch” — as well as to forget that Bush and Cheney had left office without capturing the leader of that attack, Osama bin Laden. Do you remember when the Bush/Cheney regime pulled resources out of Afghanistan – thus hamstringing its very attempt to capture bin Laden — in … Read entire article »

Filed under: Bush Administration, Politics