As I normally do, but quarterly rather than monthly as at my main site, here's a roundup of my most popular writing of the last quarter.
As is normal, not all pieces may have been written in in the past three months, and I'll give you a original date on the evergreen material.
No. 10? Yes, let's continue to Say goodbye to History for Atheists, as I first did in 2017, as long as Tim O'Neill continues to lie about the reality of post-Renaissance Catholic in general and papal in particular antisemitism.
No. 9? Indeed: What if there were another Bethlehem? Contra the Jesus mythicists, many of whom still claim that Nazareth didn't exist in the first century CE, Bruce Chilton offers good evidence for a second village of Bethlehem, just a few miles away from Nazareth in Galilee, existing then.
No. 8? From 2007, my first, briefer, poetry and not prose callout of Buddhism claims that it’s not a religion.
No. 7 is from 2012 and talks about the true meaning of Hanukkah. Those thoughts spun into several more pieces over the years.
No. 6? From 2017, the 500th anniversary of the beginning of legends about Martin Luther saying or doing all sorts of shit he didn’t actually say or do. (I’ve not kept up post-1521, but may, if I remember, in 1529 dip into the Marburg Colloquy.)
No. 5? From the start of the third-quarter period, FAFO with Leo XIV didn’t work.
No. 4? From 2007, “Patriots, gurus, scoundrels and martyrs” was a Shitter-sized post. Maybe Google thinks its popular because it’s getting botted.
No. 3 was the previous quarter’s version of this roundup.
No. 2 was from 20 years ago, a philosophical reflection, with hat tip to Matthew Arnold, on a recent Pacific Coast-focused National Parks summer vacation.
And No. 1?
ALSO from 2007, like a couple of others, an oldie but goodie:
“More proof the Buddha was no Buddha.”
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