Gareth McCaughan: "Why I Am No Longer A Christian."
Here's his deconversion story, here are some more of his essays, and this is who he is
Vic Reppert pointed this out.
Vic Reppert pointed this out.
Therefore I'd have some empathy for Ehrman despite not being prone to his exact error of thinking myself. I, like everyone else, am prone to errors of thinking.
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Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 9 minutes ago
OT but it's about WLC and I couldn't resist:
Craig for his part simply rejects the Quinean account of ontological commitment. Even the ‘serious’ assertion of extensional claims...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 20 minutes ago
Well, I don't want to be tiresome with the disclaimers, but I like to think I'm a poor example of optimism. I even put italics on the word potential.
Oh...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 1 hour ago
Unfortunately, this material development was accompanied by the "importation" of a whole new form of Islam. I emphasize the word "importation" because that's...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 14 hours ago
That's a commonly quoted saying in the "peak oil" literature. It's almost de rigueur for any book that mentions Hubbert's curve to include it. Saudi Arabia's...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 14 hours ago
As a layperson I relied heavily in his expertise in the field of critical biblical scholarship. That reliance took a bit of a knock and led me to have trust issues with all the stuff I...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 14 hours ago
Almost every time a human is wrong about something, you can identify the books they have not read. AI doesn't "read" books in the same sense that a human does, but the...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 14 hours ago
They might even make a comeback after fossil fuels run out, or after..
Reminds me of something I heard a few times some years ago, attributed to a lucid Saudi Arab: Thinking...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 15 hours ago
Another example is Benghabrit, the Algerian rector of the Grand Mosque in Paris: During WWII though he himself was a victim of colonialism, he and the faithful of his mosque risked their lives to...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 16 hours ago
Algiers was just like Paris at the time. Even not too far away from us there were large cities just like those in France. Albert Camus, Yves Saint-Laurent and a number of well-known French people...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 17 hours ago
Let's hope your optimism regarding AI is realized. For all our sakes.
I am hoping for a time when, if someone asked the question, "Do you believe Jesus Christ and...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 17 hours ago
1971 was only the beginning of the end of donkeys as a means of transportation in the area. It took another 15-20 years before they became practically non-existent. When I went back to visit about...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 17 hours ago
Let's hope your optimism regarding AI is realized. For all our sakes. I'm a bit more pessimistic, but would love to be proven wrong.
Well, I don't want to be...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 17 hours ago
But in 1971, donkeys were not the only "transportation" in the Middle East, even in North African Algiers. It was just the only transportation in that village due to lack of access. Irony...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 17 hours ago
2. Reading more things yourself, to get different perspectives. (In line with Miguel de Unamuno's famous adage, in paraphrase, "The more books you read, the less harm they...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 18 hours ago
I rode donkeys many times in my adolescence. It was the only kind of "transportation" my village had until 1971.
Much as it likely was since the domestication of...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 18 hours ago
[...] anyone happening upon it and reading only that, won't know it is erroneous.
Which is how the great majority of people have read things since the dawn of writing -...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 18 hours ago
Incidentally, as recently as 2 years ago, that HuffPo miseducation from Ehrman, is still being cited by ignorant fuckwits with nearly 2.9 million views.
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 18 hours ago
Nor does he call for it to be corrected at the Huffington Post. So it will go on miseducating readers. Forever.
The "forever" is to be read in context with...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 23 hours ago
That's a great inside baseball summary by Carrier, for those who like the inside baseball details. But I have to (at least potentially) question the "Forever" aspect of this...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 1 day ago
At a school where I was head of the high school division, the 2nd grade teachers took their classes on a field trip. One of the stops was at a pumpkin patch. Then a zoo. And so on. While the group...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 1 day ago
LOL !...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 1 day ago
The fictional movie '71, is based around a squaddie being left behind when his comrades pull out. A young British soldier is accidentally abandoned by his unit following a terrifying riot...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 1 day ago
An example from peacetime, made into a movie:
Open Water is a 2003 American survival horror thriller film. The story concerns an American couple who go scuba diving while on vacation,...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 1 day ago
Then there is the story of the woman who forgot her baby at an airport and the flight had to turn around and go back to get it. I kid you not.
This is actually something...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 1 day ago