Phillips is among the lesser lights of fringe history, but a prolific author who has covered many of the genre’s most popular topics. If you think we don’t have enough people claiming to be the “real-life Indiana Jones”-including Graham Hancock, Scott Wolter, David Childress, Giorgio Tsoukalos, and many others-we have another candidate to add to the rogue’s gallery: Graham Phillips uses the passive voice to claim others so describe him on his official website. Socrates was tried for atheism! While I understand the impulse to puff up a new book, the marketing is rather insulting to the presumed audience for the text. Who thinks that? How could anyone not know there were atheists before the Enlightenment? Even the Bible admits as much: “The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God…” (Psalm 14:1). I also saw this terrible press release from the Cambridge University Press this week that claimed a new book is innovative to look at atheism in Greek and Roman times and arguing that few today are aware that atheists existed before the “modern” period. If your critical discernment is so fine, produce the actual facts rather than complaining that Wikipedia is too dogmatic. Hanks joins a chorus of unhappy fringe figures in feeling that Wikipedia is too unfriendly to speculative ideas.
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