For future reference, Victor Reppert can first be credited with using this line. ;-)
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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 hid and helped hundreds...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 3 minutes 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. The port of Bougie, with a population of Kabyles, was renowned even in the...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 16 minutes 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 · 23 minutes 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 · 32 minutes 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 · 50 minutes 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 · 1 hour 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 · 1 hour 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 · 1 hour 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 · 1 hour 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 · 2 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 · 6 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 · 22 hours 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
Still, allowing a child to go "missing" for three days is highly, highly, unlikely.
This was in the days before smartphones, so nobody had a "Find my...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 1 day ago
Of course, all "explanations" are imaginable, just an endless string of possibilities each more extraordinary than the next.
Well, extraordinary claims, require...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 1 day ago
What are some other examples that may predate gLuke?
A bit of a stretch, King David...maybe. “I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite who is skillful in playing, a...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 1 day ago
Of course, all "explanations" are imaginable, just an endless string of possibilities each more extraordinary than the next.
Think Home Alone on donkeys. While the movie is...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 1 day ago
The getting accidentally left behind, was a literary device used to get the 12 year old Jesus alone with the wise old sages, so as to impress with his knowledge and wisdom at that young...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 1 day ago
I think I was comparing too closely with my own old society's customs, where this would have been impossible.
Especially if movement in and out of the community was a...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 1 day ago
I get what you are saying, but the idea is far from outlandish. Religious folk love to get the freak on. Rick mate....it's as realistic as fuck.
I think I was comparing...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 1 day ago
A bit longer ago than that.
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 1 day ago