Episode Guide - Religion
| 3/12/13 | Pope Joan (Skeptoid #353) - Was a Middle Ages pope actually a woman in disguise? Read | Listen (12:42) | Discuss |
| 1/1/13 | The Hollow Earth Theory (Skeptoid #343) - Throughout history there have been a number of different beliefs that the Earth might be hollow. Read | Listen (13:00) | Discuss |
| 11/27/12 | The Flat Earth Theory (Skeptoid #338) - Rumor has it some people think the Earth is flat. Do they really? And have they ever really? Read | Listen (12:41) | Discuss |
| 9/11/12 | Raiding the Ark of the Covenant (Skeptoid #327) - The true history of the most famous holy relic from Biblical times. Read | Listen (11:53) | Discuss |
| 6/26/12 | Al-Ghazali and Arab-Islamic Science (Skeptoid #316) - Some say that Persian theologian al-Ghazali was solely responsible for the end of the Golden Age of science. Read | Listen (12:32) | Discuss |
| 4/24/12 | The Siberian Hell Sounds (Skeptoid #307) - Russian scientists are said to have drilled a borehole that broke into hell and released the screams of the damned. Read | Listen (13:05) | Discuss |
| 3/6/12 | The Secret of the Gypsy Queen (Skeptoid #300) - In which a little girl saves her kingdom when she is the only one who does not fall for the pop pseudoscience of the day. Read | Listen (14:09) | Discuss |
| 10/4/11 | Brainwashing and Deprogramming (Skeptoid #278) - Can people really be brainwashed, and then deprogrammed back to who they were before? Read | Listen (11:43) | Discuss |
| 8/16/11 | The Zionist Conspiracy (Skeptoid #271) - Are the rumors true that Jews are planning to take over the world's governments and banks? Read | Listen (12:47) | Discuss |
| 7/5/11 | "Curing" Gays (Skeptoid #265) - Do therapies intended to help gays become straight actually work? Read | Listen (13:33) | Discuss |
| 6/14/11 | The Haitian Zombies (Skeptoid #262) - Are Haiti's legendary zombies real, or just an imagination fiction? Read | Listen (13:08) | Discuss |
| 6/7/11 | Near Death Experiences (Skeptoid #261) - A comparison of the effects of hypoxia to the reports of a brush with the afterlife. Read | Listen (12:19) | Discuss |
| 3/8/11 | The Exorcism of Anneliese (Skeptoid #248) - Can exorcisms such as the one that killed Anneliese Michel truly help critically ill people? Read | Listen (13:08) | Discuss |
| 3/1/11 | The Miracle of Calanda (Skeptoid #247) - They say God doesn't heal amputees... but apparently he did, once. Or did he? Read | Listen (11:34) | Discuss |
| 1/25/11 | Scientology (Skeptoid #242) - The real facts behind the most notorious religion on Earth and its space opera backstory. Read | Listen (13:08) | Discuss |
| 4/13/10 | The Virgin of Guadalupe (Skeptoid #201) - Is the Virgin of Guadalupe a miraculous apparition, a dismissable religious icon, or does it have more importance? Read | Listen (14:50) | Discuss |
| 3/30/10 | Cargo Cults (Skeptoid #199) - We point the skeptical eye at native religious groups in the South Pacific hoping to recreate WWII's influx of material goods. Read | Listen (12:17) | Discuss |
| 3/23/10 | The Georgia Guidestones (Skeptoid #198) - Dubbed "America's Stonehenge", this granite monument in Georgia appeals to all sorts of conspiracy theorists. Read | Listen (12:33) | Discuss |
| 3/9/10 | Zeitgeist: The Movie, Myths, and Motivations (Skeptoid #196) - The Internet movie Zeitgeist uses flagrant dishonesty to make an ideological point that could have easily been made ethically. Read | Listen (12:08) | Discuss |
| 2/2/10 | Did Jewish Slaves Build the Pyramids? (Skeptoid #191) - It's a popular story, but all the documentary and historical evidence tells us that no Jews were in Egypt at the time of the pyramids. Read | Listen (12:30) | Discuss |
| 7/28/09 | What's Up with the Rosicrucians? (Skeptoid #164) - Are they truly an ancient mystical order, or merely a mail-order New Age literature business? Read | Listen (12:08) | Discuss |
| 4/21/09 | Screwed! (Skeptoid #150) - A secret recording of an actual meeting of the Illuminati. Read | Listen (9:40) | Discuss |
| 3/24/09 | How Old Is the Mount St. Helens Lava Dome? (Skeptoid #146) - Young Earthers point to an infamous dating error as evidence that the Earth is only as old as the Bible says. Read | Listen (13:00) | Discuss |
| 1/20/09 | The Angel of Mons (Skeptoid #137) - Did a mysterious heavenly host save a small group of British from a large German force in World War I? Read | Listen (10:29) | Discuss |
| 11/4/08 | The Incorruptibles (Skeptoid #126) - We turn our skeptical eye on claims of incorruptibility - bodies that do not decay after death. Read | Listen (11:32) | Discuss |
| 10/28/08 | Ten Most Wanted: Celebrities Who Promote Harmful Pseudoscience (Skeptoid #125) - A critical look at the antics of Oprah Winfrey, Jenny McCarthy, Prince Charles, Bill Maher, Larry King, Pamela Anderson, Ben Stein, Joe Rogan, Chuck Norris, and Montel Williams. Read | Listen (13:30) | Discuss |
| 9/23/08 | The World According to Conservapedia (Skeptoid #120) - A new Young Earth Fundamentalist online encyclopedia rears its ugly head. Read | Listen (11:44) | Discuss |
| 7/22/08 | Illuminating the Fatima "Miracle of the Sun" (Skeptoid #110) - Did three children miraculously predict a dancing sun in Portugal in 1917? Read | Listen (11:05) | Discuss |
| 1/8/08 | What Do Creationists Really Believe? (Skeptoid #82) - Creationism is not one set of beliefs - it is a battleground of dramatically conflicting world views. Read | Listen (11:19) | Discuss |
| 11/27/07 | Who Kills More, Religion or Atheism? (Skeptoid #76) - Has religion or atheism been responsible for the greater death toll throughout human history? Read | Listen (9:00) | Discuss |
| 10/9/07 | Ann Coulter, Scientist (Skeptoid #69) - Conservative pundit Ann Coulter should stick to politics; her science is too screwed up for words. Read | Listen (7:36) | Discuss |
| 9/11/07 | How to Debate a Young Earth Creationist (Skeptoid #65) - Learn the basic arguments against science made by Young Earthers, and how to rebut them. Read | Listen (15:35) | Discuss |
| 8/4/07 | Who Are the Raelians, and Why Are They Naked? (Skeptoid #59) - The Raelians are naked and they worship space aliens. Read | Listen (10:43) | Discuss |
| 6/5/07 | The Bible Code: Enigmas for Dummies (Skeptoid #48) - Do messages hidden within the Bible really predict the future? Read | Listen (10:20) | Discuss |
| 5/6/07 | A Mormon History of the Americas (Skeptoid #43) - Can the history of the American continent as presented in the Book of Mormon be true? Read | Listen (9:32) | Discuss |
| 1/23/07 | Paganism: A Naked Rebellion (Skeptoid #23) - What is paganism, and how is different from regular religions? Read | Listen (6:44) | Discuss |
| 12/7/06 | Killing Faith: Deconstructionist Christians (Skeptoid #12) - Is proving the Bible really doing the work of God? Read | Listen (5:31) | Discuss |
| 11/30/06 | An Evolution Primer for Young Earth Creationists (Skeptoid #10) - Evolution 101 for Young Earth Creationists who want to know better. Read | Listen (8:11) | Discuss |
| 11/26/06 | Sin: What's It Good For? (Skeptoid #09) - What's the point? Read | Listen (7:30) | Discuss |
| 10/11/06 | Religion as a Moral Center (Skeptoid #02) - Is religion necessary to a good moral center? Read | Listen (4:31) | Discuss |
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