On April 9th there was a debate at Portland State University entitled "Does anything Supernatural Exist?" In part of the debate they discussed whether the Bible story of Noah's Ark should be ...

In "Atheists in the Bible Belt: A Survival Guide" (available here) Daniel Burke offers 8 tips for surviving as an atheist in the South. I was struck by the characterization in the article of the Bible ...

In a column published Tuesday ("The Bible: Myth or History") Jack Grimes offers a shortsighted defense of the Bible as an objective history. He makes his case by disputing the notion, articulated to ...

Coming out of the theatre, one of the many questions "The Passion of the Christ" raises is simply, "did it really happen?" Since the story is pulled straight from the documents Christians call the ...

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Are some of the wild Bible stories actually true? On April 9th, there was a debate at Portland State University entitled "Does anything Supernatural Exist?" In part of the debate they discussed ...

The Bible is one of 27 books for which divine origin is claimed. Christians deny the divinity of all Bibles but their own. I deny the divinity of only one more than they do. The Bible, a work that for ...

No doubt you have often heard this saying — the Bible is just a collection of myths. Perhaps we need to retrace our steps and come to a working definition of the term myth. Aristotle defined the term ...

Hoyer, of Hardy, is a retired Presbyterian minister. After reading Susan B. Wallcraft's essay "Public officials should be sworn in on the Bible" (Feb. 12), I felt like I needed to report her to the ...