Top posts of 2023

 Again, not all of these may have been written in 2023, but they were the most read last year.

We'll start from the bottom.

At No. 10, from January 2023, me calling out a then-new moderator at Reddit's r/AcademicBiblical site as a moderator Nazi, for various good reasons, which eventually got me comment-banned there, and led to me starting my own, currently restricted group. 

No. 9 was also from last year and was various commenting fails by "Smart Fool" at the same subreddit. (There will be more; when none of the mods has an academic biblical degree, even at the bachelor's level, you get problems.)

No. 8? The myth that Paul Hill from St. John's College wrote "Lean on Me," blogged years ago, started trending, in part because I posted a piece where I had dropped this link onto a St. John's College Facebook group.

No. 7, from way back in 2009, trending because I posted it to various biblical subreddits, including with the Nazi. "Paul, Passover, Jesus, Gnosticism" ties together several critical threads.

No. 6? As if a first round of proofs wasn't enough, "More proof the Buddha was no Buddha." Goes way back to 2007, but trended because I posted it to a subreddit in response to some Buddhist chuds. But, the comments long before that, like "Addie"? Claiming that the Buddha's teachings are ineffable sounds like Paul quoting Job in Romans. Nope on both.

No. 5? Back to this past year. Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod President Matthew Harrison is either actually dealing with or else pretending to deal with Trumpian-aligned fascism in his denomination.

No. 4? Way back in 2006, but trending because I posted it to r/classicalmusic. "Mahler: the anti-Beethoven" invites discussion.

No. 3? "Say goodbye to History for Atheists" was written in 2017, but has been updated more than once since then.

No. 2 goes back to the world of Reddit. I called out anally-retentive mods at r/religion and (of course) got banned.

Drumroll ....

No. 1 again goes to r/AcademicBiblical, as I called out a shitload of stupidity in people commenting on a post about the Woman Taken in Adultery pericope from John.