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Jimmy Akin
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Jimmy Akin's personal blog at jimmyakin.com covers philosophy and history. Since 2019, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Don't make fun of renowned Dan Brown”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Jimmy Akin's Catholic apologetics posts on Gospel origins, the Q source, St Patrick, religious art symbolism and church history. One commenter calls his Q-source piece the better article.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Don't make fun of renowned Dan Brown2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-01-01
What Hacker News says?
1. “The Bible” is not one text and is actually a collection of books each written by different people at different times over the course of centuries. Most of these books were written before Jesus was even born. 2. The books probably relevant to this discussion—the Gospels—are generally believed to have been written before the turn of the first century. Some argue that Mark and Luke were written as early as the 50s,…
Comment linking /2018/11/when-was-the-gospel-of-mark-written.html
on “Lost in Thought: Psychological Risks of Meditation”Submitted Don't make fun of renowned Dan Brown as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAnother hand gesture you will frequently see in religious art is a figure (usually a Pope or bishop) pointing upwards with their index and middle finger. This is somewhat unnatural since you would generally point with your index finger alone. The use of two fingers represents the divine and human natures of Christ. A few examples: https://i2.wp.com/catholicism.org/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/fil... https://jimmyakin.com/…
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on “Secret Hand Gestures in Paintings (2019)”Witch hunts were largely a Northern European/Protestant phenomenon. The article doesn't say this explicitly, but in a roundabout way acknowledges this citing examples of how the Church largely saw witchcraft as superstition (which itself is a grave sin if done with full knowledge): "Superstition of any description is a transgression of the First Commandment: "I am the Lord thy God,-- thou shalt not have strange gods…
Comment linking /2020/06/thomas-aquinas-on-the-occult.html
on “Invention of satanic witchcraft by medieval authorities was met with skepticism”Better article: Questioning Q https://jimmyakin.com/2014/08/questioning-q.html
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on “Is the Q source the origin of the Gospels?”I'm Catholic, but my kids take classes once a week at a school run by an Evangelical church. I was surprised last March that one of the teachers gave a talk to the kids about how St. Patrick was not a Catholic. I had never before heard such a suggestion, but apparently it's a sore point with some Evangelicals. In case it interests you, Jimmy Akin, a Catholic apologist, presents some evidence here that strongly sugge…
Comment linking /was-st-patrick-catholic
on “Who Was the Real St. Patrick?”> The critics said his writing was clumsy, ungrammatical, repetitive and repetitive. They said it was full of unnecessary tautology. They said his prose was swamped in a sea of mixed metaphors. For some reason they found something funny in sentences such as “His eyes went white, like a shark about to attack.” They even say my books are packed with banal and superfluous description, thought the 5ft 9in man. He partic…
Comment linking /2024/03/dont-make-fun-of-renowned-dan-brown.html
on “I rebooted my social life”
