"The Cognitive Dissonance Theory of Christian Origins," Link.
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Been reading the Bible
Making you different from most Christians, if you're reading the whole thing from start to finish, or starting at a random passage as opposed to...
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon on the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 4 · 1 hour ago
For most believers the Bible is a talisman, a magic charm like a crucifix hanging from a rearview mirror. Believers who read holy books do so as a mindless religious exercise like saying the rosary...
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon on the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 4 · 3 hours ago
If the Gospels are how the divine being who willed the universe into existence chose to communicate the most important message imaginable, then that being is clearly not results oriented.
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon on the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 4 · 3 hours ago
Been reading the Bible and it’s just a clusterfuck of weirdness. How in the everliving-FUCK did USA get to the point where they want to have it as a basis for society? The Bible is simply bizarre.
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon on the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 4 · 6 hours ago
When Josephus supposedly saved his "acquaintance" from crucifixion, he was with someone called "Cerealins" which is remarkably similar to the name "Cerealia" which was...
Debunking Christianity: The New Testament Itself Sabotages Belief in the Jesus Resurrection · 17 hours ago
But of course, we're suppose to believe Jesus was a swell guy and his word got "hijacked" and "distorted" by evil Conservatives with a agenda. Nope, nothing...
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon on the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 4 · 20 hours ago
I don' think this kind of discourse would have sounded shocking to the people it was addressed to back 20 centuries ago. Probably to the contrary, it must have made them feel all warm and...
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon on the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 4 · 21 hours ago
Isn’t teaching supposed to help people, not fool them? What was the motivation of the author of this gospel in presenting this declaration?
It's how conspiracy...
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon on the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 4 · 1 day ago
That s why I have repeated that they should not be allowed to jump into the fields of scientific or philosophical reasoning without first extricating themselves - or trying to - from...
Debunking Christianity: Apologist Daniel Ray One More Time, Part 2 · 1 day ago
It's what Jesus would want. Open carry, stand your ground, trickle-down Jesus.
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon on the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 4 · 1 day ago
"For to those who have, more will be given, and from those who have nothing, even what they have will be taken away.”
Also known as Reaganomics.
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon on the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 4 · 1 day ago
Criminal. Crazy and criminal.
Debunking Christianity: Apologist Daniel Ray One More Time, Part 2 · 1 day ago
Japanese businessmen would pay the higher price to show they were the kind of men to spend 250 dollar on a cup of coffee.
Reminds me a wee bit of that fuckwit...
Debunking Christianity: Apologist Daniel Ray One More Time, Part 2 · 1 day ago
Apparently modern art exists as a way for modern ultra-wealthy people to send a costly signal to their peers, where the signal is only the signal of itself: "Look at how much money...
Debunking Christianity: Apologist Daniel Ray One More Time, Part 2 · 1 day ago
This is what happens when people don't know what ta fuck the words mean that they use to talk about stuff. Charlie boy epitomized that phenomena. With Libertarians saying stuff like:-...
Debunking Christianity: Apologist Daniel Ray One More Time, Part 2 · 1 day ago
Where religions offer thousands of "explanations" using thousands of different and contradictory systems of "logic" and mountains of books and obscure words and obscure...
Debunking Christianity: Apologist Daniel Ray One More Time, Part 2 · 1 day ago
Rick when you look and truly without blinders about how much pain and suffering actually exists in this world and has done over millions of years I don’t see any “theodicies” cutting it ever. If a...
Debunking Christianity: Apologist Daniel Ray One More Time, Part 2 · 1 day ago
Invoking the hand of God in the "miracle" of one baby kept alive in an earthquake by an overturned bathtub, ignoring 10 000 dead people, including a bunch of babies.
Debunking Christianity: Apologist Daniel Ray One More Time, Part 2 · 1 day ago
If this was a basketball scoreboard it’d be the Science Lakers 400 to the Theology Celtics 0 (heh heh) and all of that is magni-fucking-wonderful evidence for the “abstract” evidence principle. I...
Debunking Christianity: Apologist Daniel Ray One More Time, Part 2 · 1 day ago
When the priests claimed to have a large "effect size" (such as a 100% success rate at controlling volcanoes, insuring good harvests, etc.), it didn't take highly...
Debunking Christianity: Apologist Daniel Ray One More Time, Part 2 · 1 day ago
Back in the day, a regular on RDFRS would use a "post-modernist word generator", as referenced by Dawkins himself, to show some religious nutjob who pitched up spewing word-salad and...
Debunking Christianity: Apologist Daniel Ray One More Time, Part 2 · 1 day ago
I weighed in with "Maybe squirrels are stupid" and that got some laughs.
Or the evolved trait of understanding that cyclists are dangerous, has not caught up with...
Debunking Christianity: Apologist Daniel Ray One More Time, Part 2 · 1 day ago
I read once about some Native American tribe where the chiefs would gather every year and compete to see who could destroy the most wealth.
That's potlatch, known among...
Debunking Christianity: Apologist Daniel Ray One More Time, Part 2 · 1 day ago
Modern Christian apologetics relies heavily on not mentioning the bible. If you only ever listened to the Christian apologists, you might not even realize a bible...
Debunking Christianity: Apologist Daniel Ray One More Time, Part 2 · 1 day ago
A urinal attached to a canvas and a stupid black rectangle elevated to REVOLUTIONS IN ART. If those are not insults to people's intelligence, I don't know what...
Debunking Christianity: Apologist Daniel Ray One More Time, Part 2 · 1 day ago