Has Christianity been a net positive or negative for humanity? If you wander into an online debate

between an atheist and a Christian apologist, you may hear an enthusiastic discussion on just this topic,

with the Christian arguing that Jesus' teachings led to the development of charity, hospitals and

orphanages, among many other things. Are these claims actually correct, though?

Today, Dr. Bart Ehrman and I continue our discussion on the influence of Jesus' ethical

teachings on the Western world, diving into just that question.

Welcome to misquoting Jesus with Bart Ehrman.

The only show, where a six-time New York Times bestselling author and world-renowned Bible scholar,

uncovers the many fascinating, little-known facts about the New Testament,

the historical Jesus, and the rise of Christianity.

I'm your host, Megan Lewis. Let's begin.

Hello everyone. Welcome back to misquoting Jesus. We are continuing today to talk about

Jesus' impact on the ethics and morals of the Western world. We're also going to be talking

about some blog news. We've got some

listeners questions. And as always, we have Bart. Bart, how are you today? Yeah, doing pretty

well. We're, you know, now that I've finished this other book, I'm starting in on the next

one, as one does. And I'm getting, it's kind of thing where I'm rereading stuff that I've read, like years and years ago that I've always really liked and get to read some more about how we got the New Testament. How we, why do we get these 27 books? And for some reason, I don't know why, but since I was like 18 years old, this has been a really fascinating question to me. And so virtually every book I write,

I enjoy writing, I'm interested in, but there's some things that go way back for me, and this is

one of them. So I'm, yeah, so I'm probably spent most of the rest of the summer reading about this

kind of thing. Well, I look forward to talking about it as you continue your research and writing.

Yeah.

So, like, do you, do you have time to do, like, any reading in your field, generally?

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