The telescope, microscope, and printing press were still centuries in the future.
Debunking Christianity: Careful Bible Study Shows It’s Not a Divinely Inspired Book · 15 minutes ago
For starters, it's easy to love one's friends; loving one's enemies is harder. Love for enemies is therefore greater than love for friends. Picture the Trolley Problem...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 4 hours ago
If somebody predicts and accomplishes His own resurrection from the dead, I just trust whatever the guy says. And that's what Jesus did.
And I failed to remember on...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 6 hours ago
Quantum physics in a Bronze Age scroll is exactly the kind of thing you can’t explain away as "lucky guess".
Debunking Christianity: Careful Bible Study Shows It’s Not a Divinely Inspired Book · 7 hours ago
Good list, but there's also theolojiving and philosopharting.
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 15 hours ago
I don't know about anybody else, but I might have trouble staying in character. It would be hard for me to overcome my internal sense of disgust at the destructive lies I was...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 18 hours ago
Doug (Pinecreek) has a great question that he asks Christians: would you choose annihilation, and miss out on the glories of Heaven so as to save me, an atheist, from eternal conscious torment in...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 18 hours ago
Yes, it's like having "faith" that the Sun will rise again tomorrow. We know about Hume's problem of induction, so we are aware that just because the Sun rose every day in all...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 19 hours ago
In Roman Catholicism, one can employ a ‘mental reservation’ so as to mislead so long as the truth is not owed to the person being misled, and so long as what the mental reserver said...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 19 hours ago
Of course the exercise is a whole lot easier going forward. The options for change are more favorable, as is many societies.
You're completely correct. It's...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 20 hours ago
My partner used repeatedly say to me back in the day, that I could make a fortune at that kind of pretending, because of what I know. I'd reply that I couldn't be so...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 20 hours ago
God might have also warned his future Catholics, when you sail westward as far as you can on the mighty ocean, and you meet strange people who give you some burning leaves to suck on, don't.
Debunking Christianity: Careful Bible Study Shows It’s Not a Divinely Inspired Book · 20 hours ago
I remember back when the paper was published, I had a different approach to the situation than I have today. I thought it was highly dishonest for a disbelieving preacher to lie to the gullible...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 21 hours ago
Yup! Had Jesus taught people the value of sanitation and hygiene, he would have contributed far more actual good to the world than he did.
Debunking Christianity: Careful Bible Study Shows It’s Not a Divinely Inspired Book · 22 hours ago
It wasn't too long ago that audiences would gather at public executions or lynchings and laugh at the painful struggles of the victims. Robert Sapolsky describes this behavior from...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 22 hours ago
Had god included "wash your hands after taking a shit"...
Debunking Christianity: Careful Bible Study Shows It’s Not a Divinely Inspired Book · 1 day ago
That's why you should never inspire illiterate goat herders to write.
Debunking Christianity: Careful Bible Study Shows It’s Not a Divinely Inspired Book · 1 day ago
‘Indeed, if you say something while knowing that someone else will form an incorrect belief as a result of what you said, then you have told a lie. At a bare minimum, you did not act in...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 1 day ago
I'd advise anyone in TACO's inner circle to be blitzed on something.
Debunking Christianity: Careful Bible Study Shows It’s Not a Divinely Inspired Book · 1 day ago
they can’t be bothered to engage in serious, critical study of the gospels
When the gospels have loaves multiplied, god-beings walking on water, demons in pigs, insta...
Debunking Christianity: Careful Bible Study Shows It’s Not a Divinely Inspired Book · 1 day ago
The context of Sagan’s quote from chapter 2 might give more meaning to your thoughts on the quote:
There is much that science doesn't understand, many mysteries still to be...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 1 day ago
Had God included in the bible a little of quantum physics - you know, such things as the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, the Schrödinger equation, quantum entanglement - even though the people...
Debunking Christianity: Careful Bible Study Shows It’s Not a Divinely Inspired Book · 1 day ago
I'd advise anyone in TACO's inner circle to be blitzed on something.
Debunking Christianity: Careful Bible Study Shows It’s Not a Divinely Inspired Book · 1 day ago
Their stories sound like a collaboration between RFK, Jr and Donny Trump.
While high on Elon's supply.
Debunking Christianity: Careful Bible Study Shows It’s Not a Divinely Inspired Book · 1 day ago
The gospels were in fact, divinely inspired. What is not generally known however is that God had consumed several barrels of communion wine and was feeling puckish. Being fairly well pickled, he...
Debunking Christianity: Careful Bible Study Shows It’s Not a Divinely Inspired Book · 1 day ago