My friend Lance introduced a lot of topics in the comment stream under my article Debunking Myself: What A Long Strange Trip It’s Been so I moved it here to create a fresh thread. He introduced five topics which I…
Author: R. A. McGough
Answers for Kristina – Was I really a Believer?
I received a long list of questions from Kristina Biro in the comment stream under my post Answers for Amber on Why I Quit Christianity. Here are my answers: I have yet to find anything on your site where you…
Posted in Bible Wheel, Losing My Religion
Reader’s Questions: Is there a God? Who was Jesus?
I received these questions in a comment from “Skybreaker” under my article Debunking Myself: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Hi Richard, It must be over 10 years since I bought your book and I am very surprised about your…
Posted in Losing My Religion
The Times They Are A Changin’
The times continue their incessant change (both inside and out), as the Greek philosopher Heraclitus of Ephesus (535 BC – 475 BC) famously observed. And while looking up that quote for this post, I learned that he also was responsible for “establishing…
Posted in Thinking Freely
The forum is back up now
The image is something I drew on the cover page of my journal I wrote while hitch-hiking around the country back in 1987. It captures the essence of the human condition. We are made of “dust” – all that we…
Posted in What's New?
As you can see, the site is no longer down. ;)
The server for this site crashed a couple weeks ago and the the company hosting it said all their backups were corrupted, so it has taken some time for me to reconstruct it from my personal backups. I moved to…
Posted in Bible Wheel
On the Couch with Psychoanalyst Terry Blanchard
Terry Blanchard is a long time reader who had a lot to say about my previous article Is God Trustworthy? The Root of Religious Delusion. His comments involve a lot of “psychoanalysis” of my motives, so I cast him in…
Posted in Losing My Religion, Why Christianity is False
Is God Trustworthy? The Root of Religious Delusion
Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool. ~ Mark Twain Someone who is trustworthy in a small matter is also trustworthy in large ones, and someone who is dishonest in a small matter is also dishonest…
Posted in Why Christianity is False
Debunking Dan Gleason, the “Jesus is a Circle” guy
The early Christian Sacred Geometers called a circle with a circumference of 888 units “the living Jesus” because the diameter of his circle is 282 units, which is the gematria value of the Greek word bios (BioV), meaning “earthly life.” ~…
Posted in Debunking Bullshit
The Isaiah-Bible Coincidence Debunked
MERE COINCIDENCE is the primary “evidence” that convinces most people of the truth of such religious beliefs as “God answers prayers” and “prophecies have been fulfilled” and “God designed the Bible.” Any random coincidence that “confirms” what one wants to…
Posted in Bible Wheel, Debunking Myself
Richard Amiel McGough
I am educated in Mathematics and Physics and am currently a software engineer at 4QTRS in Yakima, Wa.
I created this site on February 11, 2001 to share the Bible Wheel which I discovered in 1995. For over a decade I was completely convinced it was proof of the divine inspiration of Scripture. In late 2009 my wife and I began questioning our beliefs and have since left the faith.Oddly enough, the evidence for the Bible Wheel withstood our skepticism though the Bible itself did not. What it means remains a mystery. The mystery has been resolved. See my post Debunking Myself: What A Long Strange Trip It's Been
I created this site on February 11, 2001 to share the Bible Wheel which I discovered in 1995. For over a decade I was completely convinced it was proof of the divine inspiration of Scripture. In late 2009 my wife and I began questioning our beliefs and have since left the faith.
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