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Jesus, John, Paul, George, and Ringo Mythicism

June 28, 2012 By James F. McGrath 17 Comments

Commenter Admiral Mattbar shared a link to a site, “The Beatles Never Existed.” I got a glimpse of it, but the next time I tried to reload it, it was as though it was not there. I began to wonder if perhaps I should become a “The Beatles Never Existed” web site mythicist… But then there [...]

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If You Can’t Have the Bible You’d Love, Love the Bible You Have

January 3, 2012 By James F. McGrath 13 Comments

I probably shouldn’t tamper with the wording of a song for the title of this post. Cee Lo Green has sparked a lot of controversy with his New Year’s Eve rendition of John Lennon’s “Imagine,” in which he changed “no religion, too” to “all religion’s true.” But in fact, what Cee Lo did with the [...]

Filed Under: Bible, Christianity, fundamentalism, inerrancy, religion, theology Tagged With: atheism, atheists, Bible, Biblical, bling, C. S. Lewis, candidates, Cee Lo Green, God, history, imagine, inerrancy, Jesus, John Beversluis, John Lennon, lyrics, New Year's Eve, pluralism, politics, president, presidential, science, song, wrong 13 Comments