There is a striking irony in how Irish people discuss America’s freefall into theocracy, undergirded by a rise in Christian nationalism — we treat it like fascism, while blithely ignoring our own almo ...

For instance, with the growth in paganism, the appeal of St George has been less his sanctity than his role as dying and reviving god of vegetation, as featured in what we call ‘fertility myth’. Again ...

The notion that much of the Bible is myth has long been held by some Protestant theologians, including the U.S.’s Paul Tillich and Germany’s Rudolf Bultmann. But this has rarely been stated flatly by ...