Irreligiosophy

After discussing one final heresy, I hand the podcast reins over. Brace yourselves, it’s another Leighton-filled podcast, complete with all the stellar research you’ve all come to expect from Irreligiosophy. Or at least, have come to expect since Leighton’s Hinduism podcast.

UPDATE: New new forum. Register at your peril. I gave bbpress a try because it integrated with WordPress so nicely, but it just didn’t have enough features to be a “real” forum. So I converted to phpbb, but of course there isn’t a conversion pathway from bbpress to phpbb, so I had to do it [...]

Today we talk about early Christian heresies like docetism and adoptionism, and how they influenced both the formation of the canon and the texts within it. It may not surprise you to learn that during the decades-long course of the argument over whether or not Jesus was fully human, fully divine, or both, scribes made [...]

We’ve caught those wily NT rascals at it again — this time plagiarizing not from pagan sources but their own Old Testament! In this episode we discuss various portions of the Gospels that were obviously cribbed from OT sources like Psalms or Isaiah. Now why would God be plagiarizing himself? All this and an extended [...]

Now I know what God felt like, being subjected to the whining of 3 million Israelites for 40 years. No podcast this week. Feel free to complain about it in the One True Forum.

[leighton] Just to let all the whiners out there know, we have recorded the podcast, but it was far too boring for even us to endure. We’re going to re-record things when we have a free moment on Thursday. So, suck it up bitches. We’ll give you what you need when we get around to [...]