An Everlasting Quid Pro Quo Just a handful of copies sold this year. One day, they’ll say it changed biblical studies. Just… not today. Still, it left its mark on the few who read it—and that’s enough for now.

A century ago, churches earned tax exemption by running schools, hospitals, and charities. Today many just collect donations and fund politics — often against the needy. Yet the rest of us-and the needy-still subsidize them. The social contract expired, but the privilege remained

The likes of Tim O'Neill may dismiss my work and mock AI, but we’ll see who’s laughing last as LLMs keep improving. Here’s Grok’s latest take on my monograph An Everlasting Quid Pro Quo.

Simon Maechling

People say they seek evidence—but my experience shows most are really only searching for confirmation bias...

Christian nationalists are crawling out of the woodwork — as if racism, xenophobia, and cultish zeal were suddenly back in fashion. Not long ago, we’d almost managed to shame them into silence.

Why is my timeline full of people literally obsessed with Jesus? Gosh, the brainworm is real. Take a breath — go live a little. Love thy neighbor and all will be fine... Nobody will save you. You will...

Amazing how few Christians realize that the cult of the dead was central to early Israelite religion — the very root of their faith. We now know far more about these ancestor-based rites than ever before — enough to challenge everything we thought we knew about the Bible’s

Check out my latest publication under the editorship of Christoph Heilig about how inscriptions inform our interpretation of the imperializing ways of the Roman Empire. It is open access! Let the debate begin! mohrsiebeck.com/en/book/empire…

Your Afternoon #TimelineCleanser .. Here's A Jersey Cow Getting Some Love.

Sign of the Times...

HELP! Twitter's been tweaked and is now out of control. It's pushing idiotic Christian posts like never before. The right thinks there is a resurgence of faith, but it's just the "algorithm" ... or perhaps the "All-God-rhythm!"

1/2 I will be limiting my time on Twitter. The time that I am devoting to spiritual counseling has increased exponentially lately. Many people are upset with how their church is responding to political issues. I guide them to congregations they would be more comfortable in.

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Hammurabi’s wife would be considered as "lordess" or a "queen" in the Akkadian world in the 18th century BCE. Her title for a royal wife or queen would have been "šarra-tum" (literally “queen,” feminine form of šarrum, king). 👇⚠️ Abraham's “Sari” looks like it could be

Jason Babesauce I would suggest reading Earthly Covenant יהוה ⇢ ב׳ליה ו ב׳לה An Everlasting Quid Pro Quo. He thoughtfully lays out the facts using Bible, history and archeology to support the deified king hypothesis.

.@JamesTalarico: Christian nationalists walk around with a mouth full of scripture and a heart full of hate. Don't tell me what you believe. Show me how you treat other people, and I'll tell you what you believe

Imagine that.