It's similar to the way that Muslims feel "harmed" by someone somewhere drawing a cartoon of their prophet. Magical thinking makes people do stupid things out of stupid fears....
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 4 minutes ago
Also absent is the fact that Palestinian elites have boasted openly, on the record, of their deliberate strategy to weaponize fertility. They seek to offset Israel's technological advantage by...
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 17 minutes ago
Every religion (and commercial advertising agency) is adept at presenting one-sided, whitewashed versions of itself or its product(s). Even the worst things, if they are sufficiently complex, may...
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 24 minutes ago
Absent in that discourse is the fact that Palestinians teach their children, as soon as they are born, to hate the Jews - even killing them is all right. As Golda Meir once said: Peace will come...
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 48 minutes ago
I just went to the linked website, and then I closed that window on my computer. Does that mean that by closing that window, I treated the Name as presented on that page with disrespect? I mean,...
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 1 hour ago
OT: I don't endorse Islam any more than I do Christianity, but I post this article here because I think the writer tries to capture some of the things that many people find attractive in...
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 1 hour ago
"...how confident they really are in what they claim to believe (or believe they should believe)..."
That's why I have repeated here a few...
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 2 hours ago
A person's name had magical properties in all pre-literate societies. I wrote a comment here sometime ago about a documentary I saw a few decades ago about an Amazonian tribe. Everyone had -...
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 4 hours ago
Please note: This page contains the Name of God. If you print it out, please treat it with appropriate respect. Bwaaaaahahaha!
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 5 hours ago
Idiotic. But who am I to judge? I just have opinions.
It's beyond idiotic, and I have the same opinions. I tend to use Judaism 101 as a starting point. It is...
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 5 hours ago
I always thought the point of calling Yahweh/God "Ha Shem" (the Name) and similar circumlocutionary tactics is because His name in Hebrew is too holy to pronounce -- on the old magical...
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 5 hours ago
Ha ha! Yes indeed!
Debunking Christianity: 2nd Edition of God and Horrendous Suffering Is Coming! · 14 hours ago
Though me and Dan, don't see eye-to-eye on a few things, and given it's just after 3:00 am here in Ireland and I'm a few sherbets deep and pondering. I have to say......
Debunking Christianity: 2nd Edition of God and Horrendous Suffering Is Coming! · 15 hours ago
It never ceases to amaze me how you can tease out the many nuances of a few words or sentences!
Debunking Christianity: 2nd Edition of God and Horrendous Suffering Is Coming! · 19 hours ago
From the "scoop" article:
Finally, if you hear anyone saying, "if you read two or three of Loftus's books then you don't need to read any others", send...
Debunking Christianity: 2nd Edition of God and Horrendous Suffering Is Coming! · 20 hours ago
And just to beat on the key passage a bit more:
This idea of meaning comes into play dramatically, later in the book, when Mrs. R describes a horrendous event. Backing out of the...
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 22 hours ago
When copying from Jewish sources, the G-D is usually the case.
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 23 hours ago
The practical lesson here is that if countless religions all seem to produce similar results, then the result probably isn't coming from religion. It's probably coming from inside the...
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 23 hours ago
Tennessee Brando on MTN just dropped a video that nails it.
Debunking Christianity: "If There Is No God, Then We Don’t Know Anything." Arguing the Negative: John Loftus. From Loftus vs Randal Rauser, in their co-written book, "God or Godless?" · 23 hours ago
It might get the odd RC who is starting to doubt their support.
Hopefully, it might be more than the "odd" one. No one in their right mind could hope that all, or...
Debunking Christianity: "If There Is No God, Then We Don’t Know Anything." Arguing the Negative: John Loftus. From Loftus vs Randal Rauser, in their co-written book, "God or Godless?" · 23 hours ago
NO, NO, NO!!! Its not magic -
Say that, and I'll raise ya one:
Ho, ho, ho it's Magic
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 23 hours ago
I especially appreciate Porter’s continual description of this god as Yahweh
It always cracks me up when people write "G-D" in comboxes.
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 23 hours ago
By the end of the energetic dialogue, none of the participants have changed their minds—and we would have surprised if that had happened—because R and Mrs. R cannot escape from the...
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 1 day ago
Even worse, I assume (6) she's still driving cars, indicating that "Jesus" is her excuse to avoid learning anything about the deadly nature of her widely shared vice. When motor...
Debunking Christianity: Religions Survive Because Magical Thinking Thrives · 1 day ago
Absolutely. It might get the odd RC who is starting to doubt their support. I was watching last nights Jimmy Kimmel Show, where he showed the social media outbursts of Trumpeter hardliners,...
Debunking Christianity: "If There Is No God, Then We Don’t Know Anything." Arguing the Negative: John Loftus. From Loftus vs Randal Rauser, in their co-written book, "God or Godless?" · 1 day ago