Haha, that's a really good question, so sharp and so straight to the essence. You are right. Jesus was…
Cults sometimes spread quickly like infectious diseases. I estimate that by the time Jesus died, the Christian community had already…
I just recently read this book. In it you describe the telling and retelling of miracle stories as a key…
Is there a July Q&A on the horizon?
Pliny goes further in what could be seen as a failed prophecy: ‘For this CONTAGIOUS SUPERSTITION is not confined to…
“Obviously Christianity was not growing at a steady rate… But clearly, in the early years, it had to grow faster…
I used to watch Simcha Jacobovici's "The Naked Archaeologist" series on a cable channel a couple decades ago. I was…
Doesn't it seem likely that when Jesus and his disciples made their fateful trip to Jerusalem that he might have…
The population growth rate when the Mormon church was founded was 3-4% per year, so it seems that the Mormon…
Again: "Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world.“ Albert Einstien