History
Video Summaries of Religious History
Jason Sylvester, host of the AAI Podcast, has a YouTube channel dedicated to the history of religion. Based on writings for a book, in progress, on how the world became secular, each video tackles a s...
Book Review: The World’s Biggest Lie
Recently an AAI follower, Andrew McQuinn, contacted the blog to ask if AAI would review his new book The World’s Biggest Lie: A Trial for Truth. While McQuinn is not a historian or religious scholar—t...
Michael Sherlock – Early Buddhism – God, gods & Other Religions
The belief in an eternal soul was, and remains, antithetical to the aim underscoring Buddha’s ‘Four Noble Truths’, i.e., it perpetuates dukkha by fostering the delusional clinging to, and craving for,...