Wes Huff Knows Christians Won't Check His Historical Claims (Paulogia)

When Wes Huff appeared on Mikhaila Peterson's podcast, his historical arguments sounded compelling—but how well do they hold up when someone actually checks them?

0:00:00 Introduction: Evaluating Wes Huff and Michaela Peterson
0:01:35 Michaela Peterson's Journey to Faith & Vibes
0:09:05 The Alexander the Great Comparison DEBUNKED
0:12:19 Roman Historians & Proximity to Jesus
0:14:02 Does Popularity Prove the Resurrection?
0:17:37 Where Did the 11 Disciples Actually Go?
0:21:20 The Martyrdom Argument & Contradictions
0:26:42 C.S. Lewis's Trilemma Missed a Major Option
0:29:05 The Reality of Peterson Academy
0:32:15 The Gnostic Gospels vs. Canonical Texts
Interview: 

• Podcast, with optional video: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wes-huff-knows-christians-wont-check-his-historical-claims/id1518399038?i=1000772065575
• YouTube: https://youtu.be/-QnatAH4xNU?si=snBTNYnUGiBBptH5

C. S. Lewis and the Bible, with Leslie Baynes (Dan McClellan and Dan Beecher; Data Over Dogma podcast on YouTube)

Beloved novelist Clive Staples Lewis (Jack to his friends)(?) went through an atheist phase in his life. But that didn't last, and when he came back to Christianity, he came back HARD! Everyone who knows his work beyond life in a wardrobe is well aware of his obsession with the Bible and Christianity.

But though he was an academic, Lewis was careful to remind people he was not a Bible scholar. He relied on the scholarship of others when he wanted to explore biblical topics. Yet he wrote extensively. So how'd he do? Were his conclusions and explorations undergirded by good data, or was he just flying by the seat of his theological pants?

This week, we brought on Leslie Baynes, author of ⁠Between Interpretation and Imagination: C. S. Lewis and the Bible⁠ to help us get a handle on Lewis and his particular brand of apologetics. She'll guide us through his view of the Bible, his explorations of Christianity, and the places he snuck it all in, even when he wasn't explicitly writing about it.
Interview: 

https://youtu.be/3I40VLvNoMQ?si=yygcsnvt7gg4SeGC

The new John Lewis voting rights bill reins in the Supreme Court.

…These provisions do not just overturn the court's previous decisions. They modify the court's rules, weakening its authority to intervene in elections, and diminishing its power to side against voting rights in cases when it does step in. H.R. 4 obviously isn't court expansion, but it does constitute a different kind of court reform: a limit on the court's jurisdiction…

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/08/john-lewis-house-democrats-supreme-court-reform.html

Michael Lewis: ‘We were incentivised to have a bad pandemic response’

"There is no incentive to prevent things," he says. "If you look at what our two societies have in common, we've given ourselves over to markets in a way that's pretty extreme. Which is to say, we strongly encourage things that pay and we give correspondingly less attention to things that don't pay. Prevention does not pay. Disease pays. It pays when Covid is all over society and corporations get to make a lot of money testing for it. It doesn't pay just to shut it down up front. And if there's food for thought, it's that we were essentially incentivised to have a bad pandemic response."

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/may/09/michael-lewis-the-premonition-covid-response-the-big-short-interview

Alabama GOP lawmaker faces calls to resign after celebrating KKK leader’s birthday amid tributes to John Lewis - The Washington Post

As ceremonies honoring the life of civil rights legend John Lewis began over the weekend in Alabama, one Republican state lawmaker elected to take part in a local celebration of another prominent figure in Southern history: Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate Army general and the first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. ....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/28/alabama-republican-lewis-kkk/

“The John Lewis Voting Rights Act.” (Pod Save America podcast)

Donald Trump’s 40-minute interview with Fox News’s Chris Wallace is perfection, the Administration is sending unidentified paramilitary troops to crack down on protesters in Portland, and America says goodbye to Congressman John Lewis and CT Vivian, two giants of the Civil Rights Movement. Then Voto Latino’s María Teresa Kumar talks to Tommy about organizing the Latino community ahead of November.
Interview:

https://www.spreaker.com/user/9513168/the-john-lewis-voting-rights-act

Wake up!

This November, Americans will have the opportunity to embody Lewis’ spirit, take up his mantle and carry on his enduring legacy by exercising their right to vote.
https://youtu.be/JqZV--6Q2fg

John Fogerty, Little Richard & Jerry Lee Lewis

https://youtu.be/DHaywqZ0RYk

LISTEN: GOP congressman rants whites are the real victims of 'racism' and black people are addicted to welfare - Raw Story

CNN's KFile has uncovered more audio files from Rep. Jason Lewis (R-MN) and this time he is asserting that white people are the real victims of racial violence. Lewis made these comments from 2009 to 2014 on his radio show entitled "The Jason Lewis Show." ...
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/07/listen-gop-congressman-rants-whites-real-victims-racism-black-people-addicted-welfare/

Rep. John Lewis: ‘Health care is a right. It is not a privilege.’

Rep. Lewis gave a speech imploring members of Congress to vote against Trumpcare....
https://thinkprogress.org/rep-lewis-health-care-is-a-right-22452ad7e9a4#.lmp20ljrq

Lewis Black Destroys Donald Trump (2017) - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_x6Qk13Tv8&t=2122s

Michael Moore Backs up John Lewis With 6 Reasons Trump Is an 'Illegitimate President'

Moore also accused the FBI of interfering in the 2016 presidential race....
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/michael-moore-backs-john-lewis-6-reasons-trump-illegitimate-president

Seth Meyers Exposes Trump's Complete Hypocrisy About John Lewis' District

If Atlanta is such a "crime-infested" hellscape why did Trump want to build a $300 million condo there?...
http://www.alternet.org/video/seth-meyers-exposes-trumps-complete-hypocrisy-about-john-lewis-district

Trump's exaggerated claim that John Lewis' district is 'falling apart' and 'crime infested'

President-elect Donald Trump kicked off Martin Luther King Jr. weekend by sparring with Democratic Georgia Rep. John Lewis, after the civil rights icon said he doesn’t see Trump as a "legitimate president."

Lewis, in an interview with NBC, said he wouldn’t attend the presidential inauguration because he thought the Russians had helped Trump win election. A few hours later, Trump hit back on Twitter, saying the place Lewis represents is "crime infested."...
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/jan/15/donald-trump/trumps-john-lewis-crime-invested-atlanta/

Trevor Noah Destroys Donald Trump With Pitch-Perfect John Lewis Analogy | Alternet

"Saying John Lewis isn’t a man of action is like me saying ‘Donald Trump is all tax returns, no tweets.’”...
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/trevor-noah-destroys-donald-trump-hilarious-john-lewis-feud-analogies

If MLK were alive, Donald Trump would treat him exactly how he treated John Lewis (Mic)

Conservatives are comfortable heaping praise on civil-rights leaders so long as they don't point out that racism still exists. ...
https://mic.com/articles/165754/if-mlk-were-alive-donald-trump-would-treat-him-exactly-how-he-treated-john-lewis#.mW0LuKyoV

The Democratic inauguration boycott is about more than John Lewis

Lawmakers say they’re following the will of their districts by skipping the ceremony....
https://thinkprogress.org/the-democratic-inauguration-boycott-is-about-more-than-john-lewis-e8fedb04ff81#.cow8lhoqy

Rep. John Lewis' Legitimacy Comments Set The Stage For Resistance In A Trump Presidency (ESSENCE)

Political analyst Lauren Victoria Burke takes a look at the significance of Donald Trump denouncing civil rights hero John Lewis during MLK weekend, while exploring how Lewis' view of the President-elect stands to set the stage for resistance movements in a post-Trump world....
http://www.essence.com/news/john-lewis-trump-comments-resistance-presidency

After Years Of Birther Conspiracies, Trump Aide Claims GOP Never Questioned Obama's Legitimacy (The Huffington Post)

For years, Donald Trump was the lead promoter of the theory that Barack Obama was born in Kenya, not the United States, and was therefore not a legitimate president. That conspiracy was based on nothing other than the fact that Obama is black. ...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/reince-priebus-obama-legitimacy_us_587b9619e4b09281d0eb61ad?

Pence defends Trump calling John Lewis a failure to black people (ThinkProgress.org)

Vice President-elect Mike Pence told Fox News Sunday's Chris Wallace Sunday morning that he's "deeply disappointed" that civil rights hero Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) doesn't consider Donald Trump to be a legitimate president and won't be attending the inauguration. Lewis made the comments in an interview airing this weekend on Meet The Press, saying he believes “the Russians participated in helping this man get elected.”
https://thinkprogress.org/pence-defends-trump-john-lewis-9b66a7a9303a#.iy49mlblc