History for Atheists

Everyone knows the story of Galileo.

My very special guest today is Professor Bart Ehrman.

Alice Roberts, Domination: The Fall of the Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity, (Simon and Schuster, 2025), 413 pp.

My guest today is Dr Dan McClellan.

The “Conflict Thesis” forms a kind of underlying historical metamyth that informs and undergirds a substantial number of assumptions about history by anti-theist polemicists.

My guest today is Dr Thomas C.

In 2019 public historian Tom Holland published his book Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind, a thematic history examining the ways Christianity has fundamentally influenced western thinking.

My guest today is Dr Ada Palmer, Associate Professor of Early Modern European History at the University of Chicago and author Inventing the Renaissance: Myths of a Golden Age.

One regularly repeated element in the mythic version of the Galileo story is the claim that the Catholic Church did not even admit Galileo had been right about heliocentrism until 1992, which is when Pope John Paul II finally issued an apology for his per…

My guest today is Dr Nathan Johnstone.

Every year, without fail, we find endless articles, memes and claims on social media about the supposed “pagan origins” of Christmas.