That time Jesus got really nasty, and claimed that magical thinking can do the trick.

A Christian theologian admits too much about the uphill battle to understand the Bible.

The apostle Paul bragged that he didn’t learn about Jesus from the disciples. He preached about Christ based on his hallucinations, hence Paul's letters fail to qualify as historical evidence for Jesus.

Don’t trust those who claim to know the will of God. Especially Christians, who have splinted into more than 30,000 denominations, divisions, factions, cults, sects: so much contention and disagreement. What a scandal.

How come the folks in the pews are so okay with the creepy superstitions of their religion? Self-delusion seems to be part of the faith-game.

We really have no idea what Jesus said. "Reliable oral tradition" is wishful thinking on the part of devout Bible scholars who want to believe that the gospels preserve the authentic words of Jesus.

Perhaps the biggest problem for Christianity: there is no way, at all, to verify the words and deeds of Jesus reported in the gospels.

It's a shame that Christians know so little about their own faith. Their ignorance allows preachers and priests to get away with so much.

The feeling in your heart that your religion is true doesn't count as evidence for God. It counts as evidence for what you're feeling. Period.

Miracle stories don't help make the case for God. In fact, it's the other way around.