"Which religion seems to make people the happiest?" Maybe Buddhism. This isn't proof of anything, just a less emotional and…
Thank you for your reply. I agree that Jesus displayed vanishingly little concern with conventional “ritual” purity; and instead demonstrated,…
Dr. Ehrman, Have you read "Man's Search for Meaning" by Holocaust survivor Victor Frankl? If not, it's rather short and…
This is very similar to my own view of God as Ultimate Reality.
Moism (not to be confused with Maoism!) in China developed in the 4th or 3rd century BC with a similar…
Is helping a circle of kin and friends truly altruism, or just an enlarged sense of self?
Dr. ehrman, 1. How do you reconcile this with Luke 23, where Jesus denies the charge of making the claim…
People have known the messiah itself is a false prophecy for possibly ever since it began almost 3000 years ago.…
3) I think it’s not really possible. The nations of the world are not going to surrender their weapons and…
In the Athenian democracy women and slaves were excluded from the governance process, and since slaves made up 80% this…