Have you ever found fundamentalist Christian websites making arguments so bizarre that you're left scratching your head and laughing about how the heck they came up with their idea they are proposing?

Post illustrating connections between the Hadith and sayings of Jesus on AcademicQuran the source for all things pertaining to Islamic studies, the Quran, early Islam and Islamic history:

Radio Acolyte performs a portion of the Ancient Egyptian text Dispute Between a Man and His Ba on her custom-made Ancient Egyptian lyre. @mattcrotts thought you might like this one

Post announcing a new substack on Islamic studies and an article on Western Islamic Studies on AcademicQuran the source for all things pertaining to Islamic studies, the Quran, early Islam and Islamic history:

Post criticizing a false statement attributed to Advicenna on AcademicQuran the source for all things pertaining to Islamic studies, the Quran, early Islam and Islamic history:

Hopefully you've been reading and following my biblical criticisms of pre-tribulation rapture theology this past week. In exploring the New Testament, I believe the evidence better fits historic pre-millennialism rather than pre-millennial dispensationism.

Trying to rein in my Gemini AI alternate history timeline of late antiquity by getting it to not be so science fiction crazy (although admittedly that part was kind of fun) by making it more realistic but still have a Christian Caliphate and green energy as main points

Post asking about academic opinions regarding female dress code in the Quran on AcademicQuran the source for all things pertaining to Islamic studies, the Quran, early Islam, and Islamic history:

Pretribbers like to try to make the distinction that erchomai in Matthew 24 and Mark 13 and the parousia are not the same thing, but it seems kind of odd because 1 Thessalonians 4 and 2 Thessalonians 2 have Christ gathering believers at the second coming as well. Hmmm....

This anime looks so wholesome and kawaii and it's Islam-themed so I'm interested

If the rapture is supposed to be before the tribulation, it makes little to no sense why Revelation 13 says that the Beast was given authority to declare war on the saints. If they've all been raptured, who's he declaring war on? And there's no mention of left behind conversions.

Post asking about the historical development of early Muslim apostasy laws on AcademicQuran the source for all things pertaining to Islamic studies, the Quran, early Islam and Islamic history:

Matthew 24 and Mark 13 clearly describe Christ gathering believers together at his second coming, there is no gathering beforehand. Paul in 2 Thessalonians 2:1 says that the gathering of believers occurs at the coming of Jesus. There is no gathering mentioned beforehand.

Forget science fiction, Lucian's True History was the first shonen manga

Post about literacy rates and Pre-Islamic Arabia on AcademicQuran, the source for all things pertaining to Islamic studies, the Quran, early Islam and Islamic history: www.reddit.com/r/AcademicQu...

Wow, in Narsai's Homily on the Antichrist, not only is the Antichrist a Jew with a demonic horde and Jews under his command, he fights Elijah before Jesus returns to destroy him. This sounds similar to Jesus and the Mahdi teaming up to defeat ad-Dajjal

Post arguing for parallels between wudu and Jewish and Zoroastrian customs on AcademicQuran the source for all things pertaining to Islamic studies, the Quran, early Islam and Islamic history:

If you look at the writings of the Church Fathers, it was generally believed that Christians would live through the Great Tribulation, not be spared from it. The Shepherd of Hermas has a select few being spared from the tribulation with most Christians having to endure it

Premillennial dispensationalism is a modern Christian heresy that has no biblical support. 1 Thessalonians 4 says the rapture occurs at the second coming. The only people getting "raptured" beforehand are the 144,000 according to Revelation 7 and 14.

Post observing a possible parallel between Isaiah and the Hadith on AcademicQuran the source for all things pertaining to Islamic studies, the Quran, early Islam and Islamic history:

Have archaeologists discovered the Arabian equivalent of Heracles? This study says yes, citing examples of club and belt imagery associated with the Pre-Islamic Arabian god Kahl:

I can't tell you how angry the Gen Z Revival myth makes me. This story is unfortunately one in a very long list of urban legends many (but not all) evangelicals have uncritically accepted that only makes them look foolish.

Even though I know the story is BS, I wish the Gen Z Revival myth was real and that young people were embracing moderate forms of Christianity that actually followed the teachings of Jesus and treated people with respect instead of toxic dudebro mentalities

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If the Gen Z Revival was real, this news report would not exist:

Pretribbers like to try to make the distinction that erchomai in Matthew 24 and Mark 13 and the parousia are not the same thing, but it seems kind of odd because 1 Thessalonians 4 and 2 Thessalonians 2 have Christ gathering believers at the second coming as well. Hmmm...

Someday I'm going to write a piece comparing the Hadith traditions of ad-Dajjal with Late Antique Christian traditions about the Antichrist. Believe me, there's a lot of overlap

I've been called a Christian apologist by Muslim apologists and a Muslim apologist by Christian apologists. Seeing as how I can anger both apologetic camps, I guess I must be doing my job right.

Post to asking about the Quranic prohibition about entering a house through the back door on AcademicQuran the source for all things pertaining to Islamic Studies, the Quran, early Islam and Islamic history:

I don't know why, but given the subject matter, title and clickbaity nature of the thumbnail I suspect there's some vital context missing from this video:

Post by @drjavadthashmi.bsky.social highlighting varying orientalist views of Muhammad's wars through the 17-20th centuries on AcademicQuran the source for all things pertaining to Islamic studies, the Quran, esrly Islam and Islamic history:

Someday, I'm going to motivate myself to watch the entire God's Not Dead series. I just hope it doesn't kill too many brain cells doing it.

Two of the greatest dangers when it comes to religious freedom is when the state dictates a religion's theology, and when a religion dictates the state's policies. Both the government and religion must stay separate from each other but must respect each other.

Post asking about early Islamic historical sources for Zoroastrians resisting conversion on AcademicQuran the source for all things pertaining to Islamic studies, the quran, early Islam and Islamic history:

Happy St Joseph's Day to all my fellow Italians! Buona festa di San Giuseppe a tutti i miei connazionali italiani! Buona Festa di San Giuseppi a tutti li me cumpagni taliani!

Liberal Christian apologist Randal Rauser delivers a heaping helping of scorn to a Christian influencer incensed over Ramadan appearing in her Apple iPhone calendar

Theocratic governments are bad, but authoritarian secularism is just as awful. Quebec sounds like an absolutely awful place to live if you belong to any religion. You should be free to express yourself and what you believe without fear of reprisal from the state.

So I've heard BTS is back. Guess who else is back? ETS: Ephrem the Syrian

Bought myself a bulb of fennel yesterday to make pasta con sarde for St. Joseph's Day tomorrow. Although the way that I cook it I omit the fish since I know people in my family are not fond of sardines, still good anyway and a way of celebrating my heritage.

Post contrasting the differing and evolving interpretations of Muhammad throughout European history on AcademicQuran the source for all things pertaining to Islamic Studies, the Quran, early Islam and as long history:

Post asking academic interpretations of Surah 4:24 on AcademicQuran the source for all things pertaining to Islamic Studies, the Quran, early Islam and Islamic history:

If you think the concept of the separation of church and state is stupid, read the history of early modern Britain or Calvin's Geneva and you'll see why it's necessary. Or go visit any Islamic theocracy and see firsthand what happens when religion and politics get too close.

@chonkshonk.bsky.social shows charts by Nicolai Sinai highlighting parallels between the Quran, and other texts and their conceptions of the eschaton on AcademicQuran the source for all things pertaining to Islamic studies, the Quran, early Islam and Islamic history

There's anybody out there that's interested in a Syriac studies enigma, give this manuscript a try. The part that's linked leads to a homily on John, Paul and Peter in Antioch. Might relevant to the story of the town and its Messengers in Surah 36:

I don't think that many of the people who deny the existence of the separation of church and state realize that without it they would have no religious freedom, but would live under an oppressive system where one religion would call the shots and actively persecute them.

Radio Acolyte plays an adaptation of a poem from Papyrus Harris 500 on her new custom-made Ancient Egyptian style lyre

Just asking about the significance of architectural similarities between the Kaaba and the Ka'ba-ye Zartosht on AcademicQuran the source for all things pertaining to Islamic Studies, the Quran, early Islam and Islamic history:

Christian Nationalism is an insult to the history of Christianity in the United States because most of the religious groups that emigrated to North America did so to flee religious persecution by state institutionalized religion.

This YouTube channel is performing recitations of Ephrem the Syrian's Hymns of Paradise. Unfortunately they're only up to the sixth hymn at this point youtube.com/@hymnsonpara...

Some days I have a hard time deciding what is a greater cancer in the Body of Christ: Word of Faith theology, premillennial dispensationalism, Christian Nationalism, Christian Zionism or Evangelical AI slop art.