And not just in antiquity - antiquarian thinking persists to this day.
Absolutely. I guess what is meant, is the demarcation lines today are less blurred. Belief in ghosts,...
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 9 minutes ago
A concoction need not be deliberate, but a lie does.
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 9 minutes ago
I suspect Paul got his information from the voices in his head.
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 16 minutes ago
Relevant to the claim "more than any other group in present day academia". That should read "more than any other group in present day academia that I happen to think of",...
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 32 minutes ago
Well, the concoction need not be deliberate. We understand this from the concept of social construction. The English language, for example, is clearly a social construct. It didn't exist...
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 38 minutes ago
In antiquity, distinctions were not even routinely made between hallucinations and dreams. Both would be described as “seeing” the god, as the god “appearing” to them, as “revelations”...
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 1 hour ago
ISWYDT
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 1 hour ago
Or you you could read his free online version (link).
I could. But that still suffers from other impediments. Such as:- Lack of Time: Many adults report...
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 2 hours ago
Docetists apparently were comfortable with a Jesus who lied, by falsifying the evidence of what he was.
The term Docetistism, like Gnosticism and Christianity, is an...
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 3 hours ago
which makes Jesusology basically a word game
Well, in the beginning was the Logos/Word. Heh heh. /s
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 4 hours ago
Interesting stuff. Goes to show that at the end of the day, Jesusology's a word game because the only evidence for early Christianity is words. Not even original words but words copied over...
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 14 hours ago
Right.
Whataboutery is interesting, but relevant because?
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 17 hours ago
That's true, but other factors come into play. For example, I'd not heard of Hyndman's book until here. Now that I have, am I going to splash out £23 on a deconversion...
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 22 hours ago
"Jesus Versus Christianity" by Alfred Reynolds (1993)
“Docetists [...] maintained that since Christ was fully divine, he could not have been fully...
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 22 hours ago
" [...] Because of this, he maintains that, more than any other group in present day academia, biblical historians are under immense pressure to theologize their historical work...
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 22 hours ago
Well, "concocted a lie" or "grief induced hallucinations", both have their places. Religious leaders, aka cult leaders, concoct lies all the time. They also believe they see...
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 22 hours ago
“Concocted a lie” — I’m so tired of this all too familiar straw man. I don’t know any atheist who claims that the disciples were lying. All you need is a couple of grief induced hallucinations, say...
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 23 hours ago
How Habermas' rationalizations in service of his particular vice of choice can be beyond anyone who has had five minutes' experience with humans is beyond me. What Habermas does is not...
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 23 hours ago
Christianity was a minor cult for a long time in its early going, and therefore didn't need to be any more factual than any other cult. The Gentiles who adopted Christianity early...
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 23 hours ago
Or maybe the gentile author of the gospel just didn’t realize how unlikely this detail was.
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 23 hours ago
Because when it comes to Christianity, the biased believing scholars, don't play by the normal rules. “Donald Akenson, Professor of Irish Studies in the department of history at Queen’s...
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 23 hours ago
Any political education taught, revolved around the militaries involvement in it. When I did my EPC for promotion, it was called "The Army in the Contemporary World".
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 23 hours ago
For some reason, God always needs money.
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 23 hours ago
Paul says more than 500 "brothers" witnessed an appearance of Jesus, but no one knows who they were, what they saw, or where and when they saw it and no one else ever mentions...
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 23 hours ago
The core argument of books like Who Moved the Stone?, which I had at first found convincing, is that the apostles would not have concocted a lie about the resurrection and then...
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 23 hours ago