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God Walks Into a Bar: Why the Evidence Nobody Showed You Would Have Ended the Argument Twenty Years Ago
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ISBN13: 9798249151850
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 20 2026
Pages: 148
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.32 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 20 2026
Pages: 148
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.32 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
GOD WALKS INTO A BAR Why the Evidence Nobody Showed You Would Have Ended the Argument Twenty Years Ago
You've heard the setup. You're waiting for the punchline. This is not that book.
This is the book for the person who left faith angry and has spent fifteen years being very loud about not missing it. For the one scrolling at 1am with a specific kind of hollow they can't name. For the skeptic who has confused immunity with intelligence and called it critical thinking.
You've heard the setup. You're waiting for the punchline. This is not that book.
This is the book for the person who left faith angry and has spent fifteen years being very loud about not missing it. For the one scrolling at 1am with a specific kind of hollow they can't name. For the skeptic who has confused immunity with intelligence and called it critical thinking.
The God debate didn't die. It got buried under bad arguments, institutional embarrassment, and a culture that decided the question was settled before it actually examined the evidence. It wasn't settled. The cosmological argument has been sitting there since Thomas Aquinas. The fine-tuning data kept accumulating. Neurologists kept bumping into consciousness and not being able to explain it. Historians kept running into a first-century resurrection claim that refuses to go away. None of that stopped. We just collectively agreed to stop looking.
This book looks.
Mitchell Kirby is not a theologian. He's a manufacturing executive with 27 years of sobriety, a background in jail ministry, and an aggressive intolerance for arguments that sound rigorous but aren't. He writes the way your smartest, most honest friend argues - without the condescension and without the comfort. The evidence assembled here comes from physicists, philosophers, historians, and neurologists, most of whom did not want it pointing where it points.
And if the main argument moves you - or just unsettles you enough to keep going - the book doesn't leave you there. The bonus section Meeting Mark walks you through the oldest, fastest, most uncomfortable gospel ever written, in plain English, with zero assumption that you've read it before. Because the argument is one thing. The source material is another. Both matter.
This is not church. It's a conversation. The bar is open.
This book looks.
Mitchell Kirby is not a theologian. He's a manufacturing executive with 27 years of sobriety, a background in jail ministry, and an aggressive intolerance for arguments that sound rigorous but aren't. He writes the way your smartest, most honest friend argues - without the condescension and without the comfort. The evidence assembled here comes from physicists, philosophers, historians, and neurologists, most of whom did not want it pointing where it points.
And if the main argument moves you - or just unsettles you enough to keep going - the book doesn't leave you there. The bonus section Meeting Mark walks you through the oldest, fastest, most uncomfortable gospel ever written, in plain English, with zero assumption that you've read it before. Because the argument is one thing. The source material is another. Both matter.
This is not church. It's a conversation. The bar is open.
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