List: Christianity and Islam | Curated by Benjamin Cain

Feb 20, 2025
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Christianity and Islam
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Grim Tidings
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Benjamin Cain
Christianity’s Betrayal of the Axial AgeHow the Roman Empire neutralized the ancient enlightenment
Jan 23, 2020
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Jan 23, 2020
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Grim Tidings
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Benjamin Cain
Assessing the Christ Myth TheoryHow to address the question of Jesus’s historicity, in good secular faith
Jun 2, 2020
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Jun 2, 2020
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Grim Tidings
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Benjamin Cain
Clarifying and Debating the Christ Myth TheoryWas Jesus historical or mythical?
Jun 21, 2020
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Jun 21, 2020
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Grim Tidings
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Benjamin Cain
Clarifying and Debating the Christ Myth Theory: Round TwoDebating whether Jesus was a historical figure
Jul 6, 2020
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Jul 6, 2020
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Interfaith Now
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Benjamin Cain
Should You Believe Jesus Was Historical?Historians’ consensus, charitable readings, and reasonable doubts
Feb 16, 2022
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Feb 16, 2022
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Interfaith Now
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Benjamin Cain
The Mythic Core of the Christian NarrativeOrphism, Jainism, Shamanism, and the Christ myth theory
Feb 3, 2022
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Feb 3, 2022
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Interfaith Now
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Benjamin Cain
Jesus and Osiris: How Christianity Adapted Egyptian MythsThe solar cycle, dying and rising gods, and the vulgarity of Christian spirituality
Jan 1, 2022
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Jan 1, 2022
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Interfaith Now
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Benjamin Cain
The Impure Jewishness of Christianity’s OriginSyncretism, ancient satire, and the Christ myth theory
Feb 9, 2022
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Feb 9, 2022
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God’s Funeral
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Benjamin Cain
The Divergent Countercultures of Socrates and JesusJewish satire, Platonic humanism, and Christian one-upmanship
Feb 3
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Feb 3
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Interfaith Now
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Benjamin Cain
How Christians Misunderstand the Nature of ReligionMyths, history, and the Christ Myth theory
Jan 12, 2022
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Jan 12, 2022
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Interfaith Now
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Benjamin Cain
How Apologists Evade the Christ Myth TheoryCopycats, parallels, and other irrelevancies to the art of mythmaking
Jan 17, 2022
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Jan 17, 2022
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Christianity’s Gross Expropriation of JudaismAnd the New Testament’s Orwellian Temerity
May 11, 2022
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May 11, 2022
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Deconstructing Christianity
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Benjamin Cain
Did Jesus Conquer Rome or did Rome Conquer Jesus?The rise of Christianity and the Roman Empire’s last laugh
May 30, 2023
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May 30, 2023
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Deconstructing Christianity
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Benjamin Cain
The Irony of Jesus’s Short-Lived Victory Over RomeAnd the irrelevance of the Church’s theological elaborations on Jesus’s social message
Sep 27, 2023
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Sep 27, 2023
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Deconstructing Christianity
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Benjamin Cain
Was Christian Self-Sacrifice Meant for the Dark Age?Augustine’s “City of God” as the paradigm of Catholic evasiveness
Jan 2, 2024
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Jan 2, 2024
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Augustine, Luther, and the Rise of Post-Christian CultureA critique of Anthony Kronman’s case against Christianity
Mar 17, 2020
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Mar 17, 2020
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The Mythic Jesus and the Fragmentation of ShamanismA critique of Jesus mythicism
Feb 17, 2020
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Feb 17, 2020
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Deconstructing Christianity
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Benjamin Cain
Christianity’s Miracle: It’s the Planet’s Most Annoying ReligionMyth, history, and the sordid business of Christian proselytizing
May 12, 2023
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May 12, 2023
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Deconstructing Christianity
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Benjamin Cain
A Jungian Uses Psychology to Fudge the Merits of ReligionJordan Peterson on how atheists misunderstand the metaphors in Christian fiction
Apr 4, 2024
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Apr 4, 2024
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Interfaith Now
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Benjamin Cain
An Atheist Eavesdrops on a Clash Between ChristiansHow to understand the conflict between classical theists and theistic personalists
Sep 16, 2021
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Sep 16, 2021
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