Episode 35 – Show Notes

Andrew continued the long story of hell, picking up with St Paul. The various twists and turns (and torments) were related up to today.

We frequently mentioned Chris Date, he was our guest in episode 9.

Then Ed talked through his material on the apologetics of defending hell, based on a paper he wrote with Josh Parikh, find it here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Zq-BQro4qIaVMQNX6t4tMGRWIm5uVNc5/view?usp=sharing

Finally we became festive and Frances provided some Seasonal debunking. First in her sights was a myth about the shepherds at the nativity, such as given here:
https://www.premierchristianity.com/Past-Issues/2014/December-2014/Christmas-Scandals
Her source material was partly from ‘Facts and Trends’:
https://factsandtrends.net/2015/12/17/christmas-urban-legends-shepherds-as-outcasts/
And Frances mentioned the Jewish take on shepherds
https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/1762017/jewish/People-of-the-Land.htm

For good measure Frances then took on an atheist’s myth about Jesus and Mithras, such as was peddled on the BBC’s QI:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSm7YPMQOSo&feature=emb_logo
See Tim O’Neil’s work on this one:

https://historyforatheists.com/2016/12/the-great-myths-2-christmas-mithras-and-paganism/

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