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Author: Robert M. Price

Robert M. Price is the author of Beyond Born Again: The Incredible Shrinking Son of Man, The Case Against ‘The Case for Christ,’ and other books. He is also the host of the podcasts The Bible Geek and The Human Bible.

How Morality Evolved
Saint Peterasty
Volume 39, No. 2
February / March, 2019
Robert M. Price

The Roman Catholic Church reached the point of crisis some years ago. The ever-expanding scandal of priestly sexual abuse and, just as bad, the intricate and systematic cover-up by the highest authorities has deepened the shadows in which lay Catholics have painfully struggled. What should they do? Leave the Church for Eastern Orthodoxy or Episcopalianism? …

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Myth Became Fact
Volume 38, No. 4
June / July, 2018
Robert M. Price

OK, so Christianity is untrue. But what if it were made “true”?

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Jesus: Mything the Point?
Why Jesus Mythicists Should Abandon Secular Humanism
Volume 38, No. 2
February / March, 2018
Robert M. Price

A leading Mythicist rebuts an earlier critique.

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The Christian Fallacy: The Real Truth about Jesus and the Early History of Christianity
Volume 38, No. 1
December / January, 2018
Robert M. Price

The Christian Fallacy cherry-picks intriguing but highly dubious hypotheses … and cobbles together from them a chain of weak links.

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Bait and Switch
Volume 37, No. 3
April / May, 2017
Robert M. Price

Confessions of a Secular Jesus Follower: Finding Answers in Jesus for Those Who Don’t Believe, by Tom Krattenmaker (New York: Convergent, 2016, ISBN 978-1-101-90642-2) 245 pp. Hardcover, $25.00. Despite the title, Confessions of a Secular Jesus Follower, this book is classified by the publisher on the dust jacket as “Religion-Spiritual,” and it is. One wonders …

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High Heresy
Trojan Horde
Volume 36, No. 2
February / March, 2016
Robert M. Price

Jean Raspail’s novel  The
Camp of the Saints was not clairvoyant, but in 2015 it sure seems prophetic.

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An Important Book
Volume 34, No. 2
February / March, 2014
Robert M. Price

A review of An Imperfect Book: What the Book of Mormon Tells Us about Itself, by Earl M. Wunderli.

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The Secular Right and Its Discontents
Why I Am Not a Liberal, and You Shouldn’t Be Either
Volume 34, No. 1
December / January, 2014
Robert M. Price

Sometimes I am asked how I can combine utter skepticism on religious topics with a conservative political stance, as if the two were somehow inconsistent. Here is an answer.

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A Conversation That’s Fodder for More
Volume 33, No. 4
June / July, 2013
Robert M. Price

God or Godless: One Atheist. One Christian. Twenty Con­troversial Questions, by John W. Loftus and Randal Rauser (Ada, MI: Baker Publishing, 2013, ISBN 978-0-8010-1528-1) 203 pp. Paperback, $13.99. Baker deserves a lot of credit for publishing God or Godless: One Atheist. One Christian. Twenty Con­troversial Questions. It represents a departure from the traditional evangelical Christian …

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God on Trial
Does the Bible Vilify Israel?
Volume 33, No. 2
February / March, 2013
Robert M. Price

No, I’m not asking the old (but good) question of whether the New Testament gives Jews a bum rap. I want to make the argument that the process of unfairly condemning Jews, or Israelites, already begins in the Old Testament. We still read in Jewish as well as Christian writers, even ecumenically sensitive ones, about …

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Old Religion for a New World
Volume 32, No. 6
October / November, 2012
Robert M. Price

The Messiah Game: A Comedy of Terrors, Book I, by Tom Flynn (Tucson: See Sharp Press, 2012. ISBN 978-1-937276-04-1) 245 pp. Paperback, $11.95. Who but Tom Flynn could have written such a book? Anyone familiar with his keenly insightful and humorous essays will discover in these pages that his skills as a teller of tales …

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Analyzing Jesus’s Words
Volume 32, No. 5
August / September, 2012
Robert M. Price

What Jesus Didn’t Say, by Gerd Lüdemann (Salem, Oregon: Polebridge Press, 2011. ISBN 978-1-59815-030-8). IV + 133 pp. Paper, $18.00. When the members of the Jesus Seminar finished sifting through the sayings and stories of the Gospels, their goal was to construct a database from which one might reconstruct the career and teaching of the historical …

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God on Trial
The Problem of the Parables
Volume 32, No. 3
April / May, 2012
Robert M. Price

Readers may know that I have argued that exactly none of the Gospel sayings “of Jesus” stem from a historical Jesus of Nazareth, and not for the simple reason that there was no historical Jesus. No, my reasoning on that score is inductive, not deductive. My initial working hypothesis was to assume there had been …

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America's Peculiar Piety
Joseph Smith: Liar, Lunatic, or Lord?
Volume 31, No. 6
October / November, 2011
Robert M. Price

I have been convinced for some time that Joseph Smith’s claims about the discovery of the Golden Plates were a hoax, that Smith himself wr ote the Book of Mormon, that he forged the “Reformed Egyptian” writing he showed to Professor Charles Anthon, and that the whole imposture grew out of Smith’s earlier career as …

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The Prosecutor’s Case Against Christanity
Volume 31, No. 5
August / September, 2011
Robert M. Price

Divinity of Doubt: The God Question, by Vincent Bugliosi (New York: Vanguard Press, 2011, ISBN 978-1-59315-629-9) 352 pp. Cloth, $26.99. Vincent Bugliosi has been a personal hero of mine since I saw the CBS television movie Helter Skelter in 1976. He successfully prosecuted the self-styled Antichrist Charles Manson in the face of police incompetence and …

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A Failure to Deliver
Volume 31, No. 3
April / May, 2011
Robert M. Price

An Enlightened Philosophy: Can an Atheist Believe Anything?, by Geoff Crocker (Hampshire, U.K.: O Books, 2011, ISBN 978-1-8-84694-424-6) 132 pp. Paper $13.95. Author Geoff Crocker is, like this reviewer, an atheist and former evangelical Christian. Perhaps as a result of religious nostalgia, Crocker wants to supplement reductionistic materialism with a depth derived from biblical mythology …

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Relics of the Christ
Volume 27, No. 5
August / September, 2007
Robert M. Price
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Op-Ed
The Grand Inquisitor Takes the Throne
Volume 25, No. 4
June / July, 2005
Robert M. Price
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The Da Vinci Code
Volume 24, No. 4
June / July, 2004
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Applied Ethics
On Having Your Head Up Your Assumptions
Volume 24, No. 1
December / January, 2004
Robert M. Price
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Applied Ethics
An Odd Crop of Agnostics
Volume 23, No. 4
Fall, 2003
Robert M. Price
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Jesus in Smallville
Volume 23, No. 2
Spring, 2003
Robert M. Price

The Myths of Jesus’ Childhood No Account In Nazareth The earliest known Gospel, Mark, has no tale to tell of Jesus before his baptism as an adult. There is nothing about a miraculous conception or birth, no angelic annunciation, no child prodigy stories such as we find in the other New Testament Gospels. Considered as …

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Religious and Secular Humanism
Volume 22, No. 3
Summer, 2002
Robert M. Price
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Challenging the Verdict
Volume 22, No. 3
Summer, 2002
Robert M. Price
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Planet of the Apes
Volume 22, No. 1
Winter, 2002
Robert M. Price
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Op-Ed
Would the Apostles Die for a Lie?
Volume 21, No. 4
Fall, 2001
Robert M. Price
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The Christ Conspiracy: The Greatest Story Ever Sold
Volume 21, No. 3
Summer, 2001
Robert M. Price
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Great Minds
Errors of the Elohist
Volume 21, No. 2
Spring, 2001
Robert M. Price
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The Quest for the Historical Muhammad
Volume 21, No. 2
Spring, 2001
Robert M. Price
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Religion as Fandom
Volume 21, No. 1
Winter, 2001
Robert M. Price
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Op-Ed
Truth and Dogma
Volume 20, No. 3
Summer, 2000
Robert M. Price
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The Origins of the Koran: Classic Essays on Islam’s Holy Book
Volume 20, No. 3
Summer, 2000
Robert M. Price
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The Great Deception, And What Jesus Really Said and Did
Volume 20, No. 2
Spring, 2000
Robert M. Price
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Unmasking Holy Men
Volume 20, No. 1
Winter, 2000
Robert M. Price
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Looking for Jesus
Volume 19, No. 3
Summer, 1999
Robert M. Price
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Op-Ed
The Jesus Seminar: Historians or Believers?
Volume 19, No. 1
Winter, 1999
Robert M. Price
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