Skeptophilia

In C. S. Lewis's book Mere Christianity , he addresses the question of why there are unkind and unpleasant Christians (and, conversely, ...

Today, for the umpteenth time, I saw the following image posted on social media: The people who posted it apparently think that it's ent...

By now, I'm sure you've all heard that my former home state of Louisiana has passed a law requiring all public school teachers to po...

Sometimes my searching for topics for Skeptophilia  leads me down some very peculiar rabbit holes.  Like yesterday, when (while looking for ...

As of this morning, I have now seen the following post five times: It seems like it should be obvious this can't be true, because if the...

There are many things I don't get about religion, but one of the ones I understand least is the idea of intercessory  or petitionary  pr...

The majority of dubious historical claims have at least some  basis in fact.  As we've seen many times here, stories about real people i...

Apparently prompted by Saturday's post, about some of the bizarre manuscripts that didn't quite make the cut when the ancient church...

If there's one thing I still don't understand about the past eight years of politics, it's the ongoing support of right-wing Chr...