Amateur historian writing skeptical, source-driven analyses of biblical prophecy and ancient history. MLA citations; NRSVUE quotes; context over proof-text.
Magdalena de la Cruz was revered as a living saint, bearing Christ’s wounds. But on her deathbed, she confessed: the stigmata were faked with animal blood and stage tricks. Her piety was a performance.
Jesus and Asclepius both healed the sick—but one ended up a god in the stars, and the other ended up on a Roman cross. Here’s why their “resurrections” are nothing alike—and why Jesus wasn’t copied from a Greek myth.
A Texas church believed a communion wafer was bleeding—but lab tests found it wasn’t blood. It was a red-pigmented microbe. The faithful called it a miracle. Science called it a fungus.
Ezekiel predicted Tyre would be destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar and never rebuilt. But Tyre survived, fell to Alexander centuries later, and still exists today. A biblical prophecy that simply didn't pan out.
Did the sun really dance over Portugal in 1917? Or did tens of thousands of people just see what they were primed to expect? Let's unpack one of Catholicism’s most famous miracles.
