Dennis McKinsey

Claud Dennis McKinsey (March 5, 1940 – June 23, 2009 in

atheist and author of works on the subject of biblical inerrancy

Biography

McKinsey obtained a

University of Indiana. He taught social studies full-time at the secondary level for ten years. He was a community college instructor in sociology and a secondary guidance counselor for the London City School District

. For brief periods he was a civil rights investigator, a truant officer, and a government researcher.

McKinsey was highly skeptical of claims from the Bible which he believed contained many errors, contradictions, and fallacies.^[2] He authored The Encyclopedia of Biblical Errancy (1995) and Biblical Errancy: A Reference Guide (2000). He also wrote and published a monthly periodical known as Biblical Errancy from 1982 to 1999.^[3]

He was an advocate of the Christ myth theory. McKinsey wrote that "Jesus is a mythical figure in the tradition of pagan mythology and almost nothing in all of ancient literature would lead one to believe otherwise. Anyone wanting to believe Jesus lived and walked as a real live human being must do so despite the evidence, not because of it."^[4]

Politics

McKinsey identified as a Marxist-Leninist. He authored the book The Relevance of Marxism (1994).^[5]

Publications

The Relevance of Marxism (1994)
The Encyclopedia of Biblical Errancy (Prometheus Books, 1995)
Biblical Errancy: A Reference Guide (Prometheus Books, 2000)

References

^ Obituary - Claud Dennis McKinsey
^ "The Encyclopedia of Biblical Errancy". Retrieved 22 October 2017.
^ "Don’t Miss “Errors, Contradictions and Fallacies in the Bible”". Freethought Association of West Michigan. Retrieved 22 October 2017.
^ McKinsey, Dennis. (1995). The Encyclopedia of Biblical Errancy. Prometheus Books. p. 108
^ McKinsey, Dennis (1994). "The Relevance of Marxism".

External links

[1] Obituary - Claud Dennis McKinsey

[2] "The Encyclopedia of Biblical Errancy". Retrieved 22 October 2017.

[3] "Don’t Miss “Errors, Contradictions and Fallacies in the Bible”". Freethought Association of West Michigan. Retrieved 22 October 2017.

[4] McKinsey, Dennis. (1995). The Encyclopedia of Biblical Errancy. Prometheus Books. p. 108

[5] McKinsey, Dennis (1994). "The Relevance of Marxism".

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v t e Christ myth theory
Biblical minimalism Historicity of the Bible Textual criticism Criticism of the Bible People whose existence is disputed
Proponents	John M. Allegro Bruno Bauer Georg Brandes Thomas L. Brodie Richard Carlile Richard Carrier Paul-Louis Couchoud Herbert Cutner Earl Doherty Arthur Drews Charles François Dupuis Kersey Graves Tom Harpur Edwin Johnson Albert Kalthoff Alvin Boyd Kuhn Samuel Lublinski M. M. Mangasarian Michael Martin Michel Onfray Robert M. Price J. M. Robertson Acharya S Gilbert T. Sadler William Benjamin Smith Thomas L. Thompson Raoul Vaneigem G. A. Wells Thomas Whittaker Frank Zindler
Organizations	Mythicist Milwaukee
Documentaries	The God Who Wasn't There The Pagan Christ Zeitgeist: The Movie
Publications	Anacalypsis The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors The Christ Myth The Denial of the Historicity of Jesus in Past and Present Did Jesus Exist? (Wells) The Jesus Mysteries The Pagan Christ Caesar's Messiah The Jesus Puzzle The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross Journal of Higher Criticism
Critics	Greg Boyd Joseph Estlin Carpenter Shirley Jackson Case Maurice Casey F. C. Conybeare Bart Ehrman Maurice Goguel T. J. Thorburn H. G. Wood