{"id":2784,"date":"2010-11-12T18:50:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-12T18:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/11\/nailed\/"},"modified":"2010-11-12T18:50:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-12T18:50:00","slug":"nailed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2010\/11\/nailed.html","title":{"rendered":"Nailed"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div style=\"border-bottom: medium none;border-left: medium none;border-right: medium none;border-top: medium none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/goog_1038572696\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Nailed: Ten Christian Myths That Show Jesus Never Existed at All\" src=\"http:\/\/ws.amazon.com\/widgets\/q?MarketPlace=US&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;WS=1&amp;Format=_SL160_&amp;ASIN=0557709911&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/friendlyatheist.com\/2010\/11\/12\/the-historicity-of-jesus\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Hemant Mehta is giving away a copy of a mythicist book<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;l=bil&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969&amp;o=1&amp;a=0557709911\" style=\"border-bottom: medium none;border-left: medium none;border-right: medium none;border-top: medium none;margin: 0px;padding-bottom: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important\" width=\"1\">. The title is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Nailed-Christian-Myths-Jesus-Existed\/dp\/0557709911?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;link_code=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>Nailed: Ten Christian Myths That Show Jesus Never Existed at All<\/em><\/a><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;l=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969&amp;o=1&amp;a=0557709911\" style=\"border-bottom: medium none;border-left: medium none;border-right: medium none;border-top: medium none;margin: 0px;padding-bottom: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important\" width=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;l=btl&amp;camp=213689&amp;creative=392969&amp;o=1&amp;a=0557709911\" style=\"border-bottom: medium none;border-left: medium none;border-right: medium none;border-top: medium none;margin: 0px;padding-bottom: 0px !important;padding-left: 0px !important;padding-right: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important\" width=\"1\"><\/em>, the author is named David Fitzgerald, and the publisher is Lulu.com.<\/div>\n<div style=\"border-bottom: medium none;border-left: medium none;border-right: medium none;border-top: medium none\">I often highlight the selectivity of so-called Biblical literalists. But on the other end of the spectrum, there are\u00a0those who can only be characterized as\u00a0selective freethinkers. They know enough to realize that self-published \u201ccritiques\u201d of mainstream\u00a0biology are bunk, and yet can\u2019t see the problem when they embrace self-published \u201ccritiques\u201d of mainstream history.<\/div>\n<p>Anyway, I\u2019m sure you\u2019ll want to enter \u2013 the actual competition is rather fun.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-1466273279309116772?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hemant Mehta is giving away a copy of a mythicist book. The title is Nailed: Ten Christian Myths That Show Jesus Never Existed at All, the author is named David Fitzgerald, and the publisher is Lulu.com. I often highlight the selectivity of so-called Biblical literalists. But on the other end of the spectrum, there are\u00a0those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Nailed<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Hemant Mehta is giving away a copy of a mythicist book. 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