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156 - The Forbidden Island

No Dumb Questions

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The Evolution of Christianity

There were 50 Messianic claimants we know about in the time frame of Jesus. Rodney Stark is a sociologist who focuses on why things stick historically. He's like, they didn't catch on by killing all of their rivals. They caught on by outliving their rivals by when plague hit.

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