Author: opoudjis

Amazon.co.uk: Charles Freeman: 9780300170832: Books One of the few negative reviews on Amazon, by someone offended by Freeman’s secularism, says: If you are looking for a secular or fundamentalist liberal account of the Early Church, which presupposes that there is very little which needs to be understood about the person of Jesus, and his followers’ […]

Consistency. There are lots of quotes on why consistency is overrated, which I won’t verify because I’m on my phone. Keynes’ “When things change, I change my mind; what do you do?” Emerson’s (?) “Hobgoblin of small minds”. Whitman’s “I contain multitudes.” But the world has ever admired, and the world has long been led, […]

I am blessed to have lived in a country with a state religion—which ends up tantamount to no religion at all—and in an aggressively secular country. So while I may have had the zeal of Voltaire in my teens about atheism, I no longer get, nor particularly care to get, strident atheism such as abounds […]

I’ll register some confusion at Robert Semple’s answer that it’s a day labourer; I’ve read Crossan too, and I don’t remember that. I’m not disputing it; Crossan is pretty dense. What’s stuck in my head is what the Jesus Seminar decided (and Crossan was a prime move behind it, but not the only one): they […]

I’ve tried to reword the question to what OP Sam Rizzardi intended (“what do King James Only proponents think…”); but QCR knows what he intended out of the question better than OP does, clearly. *sigh* There are different flavours of King James Only, as explained at King James Only movement – Wikipedia. Not all versions […]