Ehrmageddon! With Bart Ehrman
Data Over Dogma
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When Prophecy Fails
When Prophecy Fails is a book that social psychologists have studied. It started out by, I think Dan, you mentioned the great disappointment in the 1840s. In 1844, they thought they knew the date and it was going to happen and it didn't happen. And these social psychologists were not Christians. They were just interested. Why don't they just give up? The head of this group was a guy named Leon Festinger. He invented the term cognitive dissonance. Cognitive dissonance is when you've got an idea in your head that is contradicts reality.
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