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ReligionForBreakfast — 218 episodes
John Green on Religion
The Gods of Pre-Islamic Arabia
Is There Any Difference Between a Cult and a Religion?
The History of Hell
Why Does the Number 7 Appear Everywhere in Religion?"
The Very Recent Origins of the Christmas Tree
The Rise of Atheist Churches?
This Is Not The Buddha (yet)
How Did the New Testament Form?
The Siege of Masada: What Really Happened?
How Did the Nicene Creed Form?
The 3 Wise Men: Ancient Magicians?
Using Computer Models to Study Religion? (feat. Dr. Connor Wood)
Jesus in Islam | Interview with Dr. Gabriel Said Reynolds
The Easter Bunny Is Not Pagan
Cult of Mithras Explained
100 Subscribers for Religious Literacy!
Intro to Islam (feat. Dr. Hussein Rashid)
What Are Gog and Magog?
The Amish Explained
Is Religion the Opium of the People?
Religious Residue: What Sticks After You Leave Religion
"Orthodoxy" versus "Heresy" in Ancient Christianity
Religious Practice Precedes Religious Belief?
What Did Marcion Believe?
Why Do People Leave Their Childhood Religions?
The Infancy Gospel of Thomas Explained
Is Atheism Growing in the Arab World?
Star Wars Fan Fiction Explains Early Christian Apocrypha
Teaching about the Bible in Public School: Legal or Not?
What Did Gnostic Christians Believe?
People Felt God Wearing This Helmet...But It Was Fake
The Daoist Scriptures Are Huge
One Million Subscribers, Still Just Getting Started
The Enduring Appeal of Gnosticism and Esoteric Christianity (Interview w/ Dr. David Litwa)
Demons Are In Your Toilet
Is Buddhism an Atheistic Religion?
Did Emperor Decius Target Christians?
Did Jesus Really Have Long Hair?
The Dajjāl: The Islamic Antichrist?
Mazu: The Chinese Goddess Who Went Global
What is Hermeticism?
Religion in the Legend of Zelda: The Ultimate Guide
Do Atheist Friends Make People Lose Their Faith?
Was Jesus Really Born in Bethlehem?
Does Religion Affect Public Health?
Who Was Asherah? (and was she God's wife?)
How Hinduism Inspired Pop-Culture Avatars
Who Was Baal? (and why he sounds a lot like Yahweh)
666: What Does It REALLY Mean?
The Battle to Control the Next Dalai Lama
What is the Kaaba?
How the New Testament Canon Was Formed (Interview with Dr. Bart Ehrman)
Should Public Schools Teach Religion?
The Shakers Explained
How Plato Changed Christian Theology
Modesto, CA: A Public School with Mandatory Religion Courses?
Excavating Göbekli Tepe: An Interview with Archaeologist Jens Notroff
What It's Like Inside the Dome of the Rock
You Don't Need to be Religious to Study Religion
Who is Gabriel in Islam? | Jibrīl Explained
The Archaeology of Ancient Magic
The Most Painful Religious Rituals
How Secular Are We? [Interview w/ Dr. Josephson-Storm]
What Is Religion?
What Does it Mean to Be Religious?
Li Hong: The Daoist Messiah
When Did Christianity and Judaism Part Ways?
Is Religion Declining?
There Are More Atheists Than We Thought?
QandA #2: Answering Your Comments!
How Scholars Are Reconstructing the Lost Gospel of Marcion
Why Ancient Christians Destroyed Greek Statues
Göbekli Tepe: The World's Oldest Temple?
What Did the Tomb of Jesus Actually Look Like?
What is the Hajj?
Exploring Tel Arad: An Ancient Canaanite and Israelite City
Emperor Constantine Did NOT Choose the Books of the Bible
YHWH had a Wife?
The Academic Study of Religion Explained
Big News...
Whose Religion Counts as "American?" | ft. Dr. Simran Jeet Singh
Who were the Nephilim?
Would Alien "First Contact" Destroy Religion?
What is the History of Magic Wands?
Is Animal Sacrifice Legal in the USA?
Was Nero the Antichrist? (and why early Christians thought he’d rise again)
Modern Paganism and Modern Pilgrimage in Salem, Massachusetts
The Real Origin of the Pope's Pointy Hat
Is Coca-Cola a Religion?
Ancient Greek Sacrifice: Why did they do it?
Religion and the No True Scotsman Fallacy
Is Witchcraft Going Mainstream? | Interview w/ Thorn Mooney
Why These Christians Worship with Deadly Snakes
Garden Tomb vs. Holy Sepulchre: The Quest for the REAL Tomb of Jesus
What Did Freud Think About Religion?
Why More Māori Are Rejecting Christianity
Does the Bible Command Women to Wear Veils?
Why Fictional Religions Feel So Fake
The Jade Emperor: The Daoist God Who Out-Buddha’d the Buddha?
Why Ancient Christian Artists Gave Jesus a "Magic" Wand
Was America Founded as a Christian Nation? | ft. Dr. Brook Wilensky-Lanford
What "Speaking In Tongues" Does To Your Brain
Melchizedek: The Most Mysterious Man in the Bible
What is the Dome of the Rock?
The Gen Z “Religious Revival” Isn’t Real
Why Fictional Magic Systems Feel So Fake
Did Christianity Steal the Egyptian Ankh?
The Gospel of Philip Explained (and why Jesus kisses Mary Magdalene)
Dagon: The "Philistine Fish-God" That Everyone Gets Wrong
Pilgrimage or Tourism at the Baha'i Gardens?
Computer Modeling Religious Violence
Why Are Congregations So Divided?
Can A Robot Be a Priest?
Do Journalists Understand Religion?
6000 subscribers! (and channel update)
Fandoms are Religions
What the Odyssey Gets Wrong About Bronze Age Greek Religion
Jesús Malverde: The Patron Saint of Drug Cartels?
Crash Course Mythology Review
The Gospel of Mary Explained
The Ancient Jerusalem Soundscape: They Experienced Life Differently
Gospel of Thomas: Why Is It Not In the Bible?
Exorcism Gaining Popularity in the USA?
500 Subscribers!
New Age Spirituality Explained
What Are Frankincense and Myrrh?
Why Is Christmas on December 25th? | Dr. Tom Schmidt
What is the Difference Between Theology and Religious Studies?
3 Famous People Who Majored in Religion
What is Ritual?
The Greco-Roman Origins of the Eucharist
Is the Gospel of Jesus' Wife a Forgery?
Why Religions Survive When Prophecies Fail
Göbekli Tepe: Prehistoric Evidence for Animism?
3 Things Everyone Should Know About Religion
Who Are the 144,000 in the Book of Revelation?
Coptic Christianity Explained
The Ancient Greeks Who Converted to Buddhism
Is Religion Biologically Hardwired?
I'm in Jerusalem! [2018 Channel Update]
Saint Patrick: First Missionary to Ireland or Not?
Nimrod: The Bible’s Most Mysterious King
What Fantasy Gets Wrong About Sacred Groves
Come Explore Ancient Turkey With Me (Religion for Breakfast Tour 2026)
Vesak: The Most Important Buddhist Holiday?
History of Halloween: Pagan or Christian?
Does the Bible Really Say Give 10% of Your Money? | Tithing Explained
Why Psychedelics Feel So Religious | Entheogens Explained
How to Make an Ancient Curse Tablet
Agnostics Spiritually Struggle More Than Atheists—But Feel Better About God
Exploring Qumran: The Dead Sea Scrolls Community
The Ancient Egyptians Believed in Invisibility Spells
How to Elect a Pope | Papal Conclave Explained
The Pre-Biblical Origins of Noah's Flood
Was the Gospel of John Changed to Suppress Mary Magdalene?
Do Dreams Explain the Origin of Religion?
Doom-Bringing Solar Eclipses in the World's Religions
What The Mandalorian Gets Right About Real-World Religions
How to Become Immortal According to Daoism (in 5 not-so-easy steps)
Gospel of Judas: What Does It Really Say?
The Pre-Christian Origins of Baptism
Grimoires Explained: Manuals of Magic
Americans Are Religious About America
The Most Famous Extrabiblical Reference to Jesus: Authentic or Not? (Interview w/ Dr. Tom Schmidt)
What Is the Best Bible Translation?
Announcing New Series
Americans Exaggerate How Often They Go to Church
Why the Amish Are Basically Immune to Allergies
Sunni or Shia? | Who Are the Alevis?
Religion for Breakfast Patreon Trailer
The Origins of Infant Baptism
The Druids: What Do We Really Know?
Did Early Christians Think Jesus Was a Ghost? | ft. Travis Proctor
What is Zen Buddhism?
Mars Hill Sermon Explained on Mars Hill
Who Were the Last Pagans of Europe?
What is Atheism?
The Didache | Another Book That Almost Made It Into the Bible?
Why is Christmas on December 25th?
Why did the Romans Persecute Christians?
The Egyptian Goddess that Rome Adopted
The Dalai Lama Explained: The Last Lama?
RFB: 2016 in Review!
Where Did Ancient Christians Meet?
The Gnostic Gospels: Were They Illegal?
Who Was Allah Before Islam?
Confucius Has Living Descendants?
Which Part of the Brain Makes People Religious?
What is Satanism?
Would Jesus Vote Republican or Democrat?
1000 Subscribers!
Exorcism: Ancient Medical Practice?
The Origins of Animal Sacrifice
Holi Explained | The Hindu Festival of Colors
How Japanese Religion Influenced Pokémon
Who Is Satan in Islam? | Iblis Explained
Korean Shamanism Explained
Does Humanity Still Believe in Magic?
How I Became a Religious Studies Researcher
Jerusalem Syndrome: Real or Not?
What is the Hagia Sophia?
Why Strict Religions Succeed
Why AI Feels Spiritually Dangerous | ft. Jared Henderson
Colbert On Religion
QandA #1: Theology, Teaching Religion, and the Demiurge
How Star Wars Explains the New Testament Canon
Sikhs and Muslims: Bullied at US Schools?
Marian Apparitions Explained: The Mysterious Appearances of the Virgin Mary
Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls?
The Prophet Idrīs: The Islamic Enoch?
Artemis of Ephesus: The "Mother" Goddess Everyone Gets Wrong
Are Animals Religious?
The Most Misunderstood Parable of Jesus
Can Your Religion Predict Your Politics?
What Everyone Gets Wrong About Elves in Iceland
The Real Reasons Why People Become Atheists
War Makes Us More Religious