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Recent Comments

  • Ignorant Amos

    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 · 23 minutes ago

  • Bob Jase

    "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 · 52 minutes ago

  • Ignorant Amos

    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 · 1 hour ago

  • Ignorant Amos

    I'm reminded of the Isaac Azimov essay:- The Relativity of Wrong

    Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 1 hour ago

  • Daniel Mocsny
    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 · 1 hour ago

  • Ignorant Amos
    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 · 1 hour ago

  • Daniel Mocsny

    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 · 1 hour ago

  • Daniel Mocsny

    This is a great example:

    To justifiably believe a biblical tale of a miracle requires more than mere human testimony. Just think of what it would take to believe someone who told you...

    Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 2 hours ago

  • ORAXX

    You mean to tell me 'divine inspiration' didn't carry the day until the invention of the printing press? I'm shocked! ;)

    Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 4 hours ago

  • ORAXX

    One man's heresy is another man's self-evident truth, and around and around we go.

    Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 4 hours ago

  • josephpalazzo

    Sure, but it doesn't beat: "Once upon a time..." which it should have.

    Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 6 hours ago

  • Bob Jase

    I have this nearly sub-conscious 'belief' that I won't die until I finish reading all my books - conditional immortality.

    Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 8 hours ago

  • Ficino

    I'll raise ya one: Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ Λόγος ... OK, I'll go away now.

    Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 1 day ago

  • Ficino

    My father claimed that he received visions that revealed things from God. If he'd been more clever, bless his heart, he could have parlayed them into real money.

    Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 1 day ago

  • Ignorant Amos

    But your first example doesn't seem to be talking about the norms and methods in that discipline. Sure, folk can be bias, and their peers are usually the ones calling out that bias. They are...

    Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 1 day ago

  • Ignorant Amos

    Well, that's where he says he got it, "visions". 11 I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that the gospel I preached is not of human origin. 12 I did not receive it from any...

    Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 1 day ago

  • Ignorant Amos
    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 · 1 day ago

  • Bholly72

    A concoction need not be deliberate, but a lie does.

    Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 1 day ago

  • ORAXX

    I suspect Paul got his information from the voices in his head.

    Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 1 day ago

  • Daniel Mocsny

    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 · 1 day ago

  • Daniel Mocsny

    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 · 1 day ago

  • Daniel Mocsny
    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 day ago

  • Robert Conner

    ISWYDT

    Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 1 day ago

  • Ignorant Amos
    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 · 1 day ago

  • Ignorant Amos
    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 · 1 day ago

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