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The Michael Shermer Show · 2026-03-08 · 53 min · 9,307 words

Shermer Says 7: Responding to Fan Mail … "Who Was Jesus?"

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Hello everyone, it's Michael Schirmer and it's time for another episode of the Michael Shermer Show. This another special edition of Shermer says. This is brought to you by the Skeptic Society and Skeptic magazine. Here's our new issue on UFOs and UAPs as religious uh Well, icons of of some sort, like a a religious mythology.

Anyway, check it out. Go to skeptic.com slash magazine or go to your local Barnes and Noble or or any of the other uh chain bookstores to get it. Um, and look at that cover. It's just a gorgeous cover. There's a holy Bible down there, which is a little hint at what's going on, not just there, but in today's episode, because I got a letter, I got mail.

Here I got a letter from eighth grade students at Trinity Christian Academy in Texas, and I'm going to read it to you. I'm not going to read their names. We'll keep their privacy private. Keep their names private.

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