Reading paths
Suggested orders
The site has 19 sections and 22 long-form notes. Different readers come in with different starting points. These are five suggested orders for working through the material, each tuned to a particular audience.
The skeptic's path
12 steps
You have read Dawkins, Harris, Hitchens. You are willing to be moved by evidence. You want the philosophy first, then the history.
The site's case is not "trust us." It is a chain of inferences, each defensible on its own evidence. This path walks the chain from the most general (does theism even make sense) to the most specific (did Jesus rise) and gives the strongest engagement with the contemporary skeptical position at each step.
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The history first path
11 steps
You are pragmatic. Show me the evidence for the central claim. Save philosophy for later.
If the resurrection happened, the philosophical questions reframe themselves around it. Start with the historical case. Decide what you make of it. Then come back for the rest.
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The comparative religion path
9 steps
You are weighing Christianity against Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, or atheism. You want a fair comparison on the central historical and philosophical points.
Each major alternative is engaged on its strongest version. The site does not dismiss any of them. It applies the same evidential standards across the board.
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The deconvert's path
8 steps
You left a Christian background. You found the version you were given unsupportable. The site is for you, with no defensiveness.
Most deconversion triggers are intellectual, moral, or social. The site's strongest answer is to category one (intellectual). It argues that the Christianity you left was not the only version, and that mainstream scholarship supports more of the case than popular skepticism implies.
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The philosophy of religion path
8 steps
You want the philosophical case engaged at depth before the historical particulars.
The cosmological argument, the fine tuning argument, the moral argument, the argument from consciousness, the problem of evil, the trinity as a solution to the relational problem of strict monotheism. Then the historical case as the load bearing test.
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