tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4307187040250193857.post8289032477731199023..comments2024-03-20T03:33:22.357-07:00Comments on Skeptophilia: Cockeyed optimism and the Gospel of BarnabasGordon Bonnethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06003472005971594466noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4307187040250193857.post-11912167715668915832012-05-28T15:03:40.668-07:002012-05-28T15:03:40.668-07:00I always understood the so called Gospel of Barnab...I always understood the so called Gospel of Barnabas to be a fairly well known fourteenth or fifteenth century concoction that circulated in Muslim ruled territories with high Christian populations in an attempt to persuade them that Islam was the One True Religion and that they had better convert post haste. It's a plainly fabricated document, although I haven't heard of this recent "discovery". The story is quite plainly at the religious fundamentalist end of the wood spectrum…Keith Fitzpatrick-Matthewshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03389756629394171606noreply@blogger.com