"Explanations, explanations"... Just about every sentence, maybe every word, in the "holy" books has to be justified, explained, "clarified", "interpreted"...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 29 minutes ago
In the NT, the people knew (supposedly) the names of Jesus's siblings, and that would exclude the possibility they were using "brother" and "sister" as members...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 39 minutes ago
Just this morning I thought of the gospel "brothers" vs. "cousins" thing!
I know something about that in my own old Kabyle culture. Today things have...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 1 hour ago
Good stuff, David. A few typos:
that the gospels tell to [the] true story
laying his hands of [on] them
Just this morning I thought of...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 4 hours ago
David, I am very flattered.
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 1 day ago
The JWST is turning the world of cosmology upside down, which is a welcome AFAIC. I've always viewed the Big Bang Theory (BBT) as a fairy tale, especially that it was started by...
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 1 day ago
Sad.
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 1 day ago
My poor father was diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenic. He was functional in many ways, but it got worse over time.
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 2 days ago
The majority of drivers don't end up in ditches. The number that does, is miniscule to the number of drivers out there. As you point out, the reasons are wide and varied, but it isn't...
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 2 days ago
My father claimed that he received visions that revealed things from God.
FUck waht?!?! MY Dad claimed (ya know bible god) voices arresting him in his car asking what would...
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 2 days ago
invoking divine inspiration as proof assumes the very thing in question — that a god exists and communicates — which is a textbook example of circular reasoning.
Fuck thanks...
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 2 days ago
Or in the case of the Buybull, the Lukan comma. 1. “Verily I say unto you, today you will be with me in paradise” 2. “Verily I say unto you today, you will be with me in paradise" Which makes...
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 2 days ago
And they all lived happily ever after ... oh wait (goes back to reread Revelation...)
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 2 days ago
We won't get fooled again. https://uploads.disquscdn.c...
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 2 days ago
Of course, but ya know what a mean.
Side observation: many if not most Christians picture God saying exactly that, every time we encounter a bible verse that makes no sense...
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 2 days ago
It's worth following the link and reading the whole thing. I like the way, when the various resurrection verses refer to the same thing N times, you get as many as N discrepant versions of it...
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 2 days ago
One way to process the shock is with sarcasm - oh I see you're already there.
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 2 days ago
In antiquarian times, there was no reason why folk should know better.
Today, no such excuse is available.
That's right, no such excuse....
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 2 days ago
Of course, but ya know what a mean. It was reasonable to believe stuff that what is now deemed to be complete nonsense, because the knowledge to know differently, was not available. It had yet to...
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 2 days ago
"Today, no such excuse is available." Yes there is, one I'm constantly trying to get my ex to understand. Its called the internet - millions believe that just because they use...
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 2 days ago
In antiquarian times, there was no reason why folk should know better.
Today, no such excuse is available.
All the things we know today, weren't available to the average Joe of antiquity.
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 2 days ago
I'm reminded of the Isaac Azimov essay:- The Relativity of Wrong
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 2 days ago
A concoction need not be deliberate, but a lie does.
Yeah, and sometimes it's hard to tell the difference, since we aren't mind-readers. Like with Trump who...
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 2 days ago
1. The book Unbelievable by Rob J Hyndman
Started it today.
Up to part 8 The biblical crystal ball.
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 2 days ago
Right, and before Galileo, probably well over 90% of medieval Europeans believed the Sun goes around the Earth. And that was right across the whole IQ distribution, probably to the very top. Maybe...
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 2 days ago