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What the Radicals and Conservatives Have in Common
Elsewhere, I have written about my annoyance with mainstream New Testament scholars. Here I sum up the situation: “Only scholars who are...
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Bart Ehrman on “Mass Hallucinations”
In a truly insightful passage from How Jesus Became God, Bart Ehrman wrote, “most people at the end of the day believe that mass...
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The Miracle Claims of the Apostles
According to 1 Corinthians 15:11, Paul wrote, “I preach what they [the other apostles] preach” (Jerusalem Bible). If we’re going by that...
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How Jesus Became God: Ten Years Later
It’s been ten years now since Bart Ehrman published his great book How Jesus Became God (HarperCollins, 2014). At the time, I didn’t...
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Is Bitcoin a MLM Scheme?
Years ago, when Robert Kiyosaki was asked what he thought of a multi-level marketing (MLM) business, he replied, “I have heard rumors...
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Bitcoin: Good as Gold?
A fairly new book by Bitcoin enthusiast Bobby C. Lee is titled The Promise of Bitcoin, but the public is still ignoring the challenge of...
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Do Deficits Matter?
In a YouTube video, Robert Kiyosaki referred to MMT as “Marxist Monetary Theory”. A recent book about MMT, which mentions the “People’s...
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The American Way of Death Protection
In 1963, Jessica Mitford published an exposé on the “cost of dying,” and it became a best-seller. The book was called The American Way of...
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Increased Government Spending and Inflation
Even when gold was money, the quantity of money could fluctuate. Gold could be hoarded or used in jewelry. As Karl Marx explained, "By...
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Jerome Powell’s Momentous Mandate
On November 22, 2021, President Biden nominated Jerome Powell to be Fed chair for another four years. According to the Associated Press,...
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Does Government Spending Cause Inflation?
The new large spending bill, known in the media as Build Back Better, was passed by the House recently. Opponents of the law are on...
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Will the Fed Have to Raise Rates?
Pundits are finally asking officials if the Federal Reserve is going to "raise rates." Federal Reserve (from here, Fed or the Fed)...
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The Intractable Labor Shortage
For as long as I can remember, eliminating unemployment was a political objective. It is, therefore, surreal to be constantly reminded of...
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Problems with Keynes Revisited
I established in my last post that Keynes's objection to classical economics had something to do with a labor supply curve that was...
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Problems with Keynes
According to John Maynard Keynes, the classical economists of his day taught that the “utility of the wage when a given volume of labour...
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The Case Against Kalam
Today, Christians share the Kalam Cosmological Argument through social media posts, books, etc. Kalam is an Arabic word, and Muslims,...
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The 1 Corinthians Problem
When it comes to Paul, scholars have long presumed that he received the famous creed (1 Cor. 15:3-7) from people. For example, C. H....
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THE ARGUMENT FROM "MERELY"
It's basically the Second Edition of the pamphlet. Most of the pamphlet made it into the book. See the link. http://booklife.com/project/...
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"Forget the Old Bluffer"
Christian apologists regularly teach variations of the principle "Nonbeing cannot produce being." According to my notes, the late Norman...
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The Scourge of the Kalam Argument
Again. I know it's a popular book and not a scholarly tome, but I just noticed that William Lane Craig cited a curious statement in Lee...
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