The Crappy Golden Orrery Award 2021
To finish 2021, here is my annual year in review survey of History for Atheists. But I also detail the nominees for the Crappy Golden Orrery Award for the most egregious, boneheaded and/or stupid bad history by an atheist for 2021 and announce the winner of this year’s award. Happy New Year to all.
11 thoughts on “The Crappy Golden Orrery Award 2021”
That was fun.
It was clearly a bumper crop this year for Richard Carrier not to get an honourable mention.
Well, some people are perpetual bad history generators and so would win every year. And I give that guy enough attention already.
Don’t know if you’re as much of an old fossil as I am, but there used to be a show called The $1.98 Beauty Show, a beauty pagent of sorts where the big prize was, you guessed it, $1.98. This would be a great model for The Crappy Golden Orrery Award
Damn, I just got Powers and Thrones for Christmas. Not surprising he got some stuff wrong, the book is huge and possibly covers too large a timespan to include many details.
Thanks Tim! I really thought the Stalinist would win! Go figure!
G’Day Tim,
I was both surprised & disappointed to find Cosmic Skeptic getting a serve over erroneous historical claims. I fully admit that the man’s only 22, but I reckon that his work has been typically well based in rational thought & he’s been an effective voice in countering theistic bullshit from the British Islamic community, especially.
It looks like I’m going be making an educational look into both his historical claims & as your rebuttals, which should be fun.
What is a “Pagan theogist”?
I have no idea. Why do you ask?
9:22
“Pagan theurgists”. Theurgy was a system of magic used by some schools of Neoplatonism to commune with higher powers.
Thanks!