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As far as big news goes, this is really Big News. For the first time in centuries, the tomb of Jesus Christ in Jerusalem is being opened. ...

Throughout my life, attitudes towards the Jesus phenomenon have been evolving constantly. As a child, I was led to believe that Je...

I think that one miracle in particular has become more famous than all the others, for the simple reason that almost everybody has tried to ...

When I was looking around for an image of a bottle of so-called "holy water" for my blog post on placebos, I stumbled upon an awes...

There may be readers who fail to understand how I can be irritated by the present-day practice of religion ( disgusted at times, as in my p...

When I heard that the US novelist Dan Brown had suggested, in The Da Vinci Code , that Jesus had been married to Mary Magdalene , I was to...

Several years ago, in the context of my document on maternal genealogy entitled A Little Bit of Irish [ access ], I tackled briefly (in the...

Having just announced the creation of a new religion—in my previous blog post [ display ]—I'm aware that it's somewhat risky to subm...

The original statement by Alexander Pope [1688-1744] spoke of learning: A little learning is a dangerous thing. Since then, we've usua...

This hilarious song of praise to Jesus by the Australian comedian Tim Minchin was supposed to be included in a show on ITV in the UK this ...

I found this funny story in the excellent Pharyngula blog by PZ Myers [ access ] . The history of Catholicism is filled with magic happeni...

All four evangelists agree on the name of the place where Jesus was crucified. It was called Golgotha , which is a Hebrew term meaning the ...

My subject line might be misleading. I'm incapable of saying whether Simcha Jacobovici , revealer of the Talpiot tomb, is deliberately s...

On 3 March 2007, I wrote my article entitled Thomas time concerning the affair of the tomb in Talpiot. [Click here to display this article...

In genealogy, there's a relatively unusual approach that consists of only taking into account your female ancestors. So, you disregard y...

I return to the fascinating subject of the work of Simcha Jacobovici concerning a tomb at Talpiot, to the south of Jerusalem, that containe...

Many people like to believe antiquated nonsense such as the notion that the crucified Jesus once ascended bodily into the sky. In a differen...