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The Crappy Golden Orrery Award 2023

The Crappy Golden Orrery Award 2023

Here is my annual year in review survey for History for Atheists in 2023. But I am happy to announce the return of the much loved Crappy Golden Orrery Award for the most egregious, boneheaded and/or stupid bad history by an atheist in 2023. A lack of suitable candidates meant it was not awarded last year, but 2023 saw some prime examples of terrible takes on history by anti-theists, with some stiff competition for this unprestigious prize. Tune in to…

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The Crappy Golden Orrery Award 2021

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.

The History for Atheists Podcast is Launched

The History for Atheists Podcast is Launched

As promised, I’ve now launched a History for Atheists podcast, which has audio versions of the videos on the History for Atheists video channel. The podcast is aimed at those who prefer to listen to content on the go rather than watching a video. The History for Atheists podcast is currently available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Podcast Addict, TuneIn, iHeartRadio, Podchaser, Google Podcasts, Pocket Casts, Deezer, Listen Notes, Player FM and Podcast Index, and should soon be available on Amazon Music and Pandora. Or you can listen to all current episodes on…

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The History for Atheists Video Channel is Live

The History for Atheists Video Channel is Live

After a long gestation, the History for Atheists video channel is now up and running. For the last five years I have written fairly regular articles here at History for Atheists, with the aim of providing substance and depth on topics that are, all too often, covered in a manner that is superficial and usually wrong. But not everyone reads 10,000 word articles, so I have launched this accompanying video channel to cover most of the same subjects. The channel…

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2020 – The Year in Review

2020 – The Year in Review

With a tumultuous year now over, I have been doing my annual review of the statistics for History for Atheists and thought I would post some of them here, with a few comments. This site is now entering its sixth year of operation and is still attracting plenty of readers and commenters. I also have a large number of topics I still need to tackle and new examples of anti-theist bad history continue to arise, so I suspect I will…

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History for Atheists on MythVision

History for Atheists on MythVision

Derek Lambert, the enthusiastic and open-minded host of the MythVision podcast and video channel, was kind enough to have me on as a guest. Derek is someone who has been both a Christian and then a Jesus Mythicist, but is now exploring ideas about the historical Jesus and the origins of Christianity with a broad range of guests. It was a pleasure to speak with him and explore the problems with Jesus Mythicism in a fairly long and wide ranging…

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History for Atheists on Answers in Reason

History for Atheists on Answers in Reason

It is always nice to be invited to speak to other atheists and to highlight the work I do here on History for Atheists. This week I had the pleasure of talking to Davidian from Answers in Reason in a live discussion which was mainly about the historical Jesus but also on how history is analysed, the nature of ancient source material and the problem of atheist bad history and anti-theist tribalism. We did not get to cover many other…

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2018 – The Year in Review

2018 – The Year in Review

Since we are now a few days into the new year, I have been looking at the statistics for this blog over the last twelve months and thought I would post a short summary, with a few comments. History for Atheists has been running since October 2015, and so is now into its fourth year of operation. In that time, I am happy to say, it has built up a solid following and has gone some way toward its objective…

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History for Atheists on the Non Sequitur Show – Part 1

History for Atheists on the Non Sequitur Show – Part 1

Yesterday I had a great conversation with Steve McRae and Kyle Curtis of the Non Sequitur Show about History for Atheists, atheist bad history and why non-believers need to get history right if they want to be taken seriously. This was the first of what we plan to be several conversations and this time around we discussed the myth of the Medieval flat earth, touched on Jesus Mythicism and talked a little about the myth of Pius XII as “Hitler’s…

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Welcome to the New Look Blog

Welcome to the New Look Blog

When I began “History for Atheists” in October 2015 it was largely as an opportunity to put down some summaries of why certain persistent New Atheist pseudo historical myths are wrong, curate the positions of expert historians and other scholars on relevant issues and direct readers to reliable information on history.  This was at least, in part, because I found myself writing refutations to the same nonsense claims over and over again and was starting to find the repetition pretty…

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