skip to main | skip to sidebar

Debunking Christianity

Dr. Craig's Calamitous Cock-Up -- Bayes' Theorem and the Resurrection

By John W. Loftus at 2/17/2012

16 Comments  

Newer Post Older Post Home
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

Follow Us @ Follow It

Don't Miss The Action, Subscribe!

Amazon Links To Books By John W. Loftus

01 Why I Became an Atheist
02 The Christian Delusion
03 The End of Christianity.
04 The Outsider Test for Faith
05 God or Godless?: A Debate
06 Christianity Is Not Great
07 How to Defend the Christian Faith
08 Unapologetic: Philosophy of Religion
09 Christianity in the Light of Science
10 The Case Against Miracles
11 Varieties of Jesus Mythicism
12 God and Horrendous Suffering
13 Debating Christianity

Amazon Links to Books by Dr. David Madison

--Ten Tough Problems in Christian Thought
--Ten Things Christians Wish Jesus Hadn't Taught
--GUESSING ABOUT GOD

Please Support The Work Here

Buy Something From AMAZON!

Details About John's 13 Books

Details About John's 13 Books

Seek And Ye Shall Find:

Recent Comments

  • Bob Jase

    Ah but they haven't met AI cats yet have they?

    Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 33 minutes ago

  • Bob Jase

    The more anal the logic the better.

    Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 34 minutes ago

  • Bob Jase

    Oh yes they are!

    Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 35 minutes ago

  • Bob Jase

    The demons are from Canada?

    Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 40 minutes ago

  • Ficino

    All the problems are made to go away by the doctrine of analogical predication.

    Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 1 hour ago

  • Ficino
    At least Switzerland had a real army, and mountains for defense. The Vatican only had its imaginary God, and maybe the potential discontent of all the Catholics serving in Nazi and...

    Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 2 hours ago

  • ORAXX

    Religion and morality are not mutually exclusive, but they are far from the same thing.

    Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 4 hours ago

  • ORAXX

    That's just it. I do not believe the genuine word of God would ever be subject to never ending debate.

    Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 4 hours ago

  • ORAXX

    I'm cautiously optimistic that at my age I can stay ahead of the AI curve far enough it won't affect me much. Probably wishful thinking as technology is advancing at a frightening pace.

    Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 5 hours ago

  • Daniel Mocsny

    One also wonders whether the Gospel writers met occasionally over drinks and had a running contest to see who could write the most ridiculous thing that grown men two thousand years later would...

    Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 6 hours ago

  • Daniel Mocsny

    It all makes sense now. The whole scene seems unnecessarily dramatic, but perhaps demons are like Will Shatner and prone to hamming it up.

    Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 6 hours ago

  • Daniel Mocsny

    I wonder, did Jesus have a Bacon Number of 2000? And speaking of the food, and not the prolific actor, perhaps Paul's Christianity wiped out the original Jewish Christianity partly on the...

    Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 6 hours ago

  • Daniel Mocsny

    There's also the rather awkward issue that Jesus answers demon prayers! It's a wonder that Christians haven't taken the obvious lesson when Jesus refuses to grant their requests....

    Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 6 hours ago

  • Daniel Mocsny

    And isn't there also the Thomist notion that God exists outside of time, whatever that means? So if demons had a beginning, then God experiences demons as existing and not existing at the same...

    Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 6 hours ago

  • Daniel Mocsny
    Christian scholars are divided on the ultimate origin of "evil spirits"

    As well they should be, given the absence of any objective data about evil spirits. To...

    Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 6 hours ago

  • Daniel Mocsny
    I'm not opposed to every religion . . . only those involving people.

    Looking to the future, I might be opposed to AI religion, should AI prove defective enough to have...

    Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 6 hours ago

  • Daniel Mocsny
    The Catholic Church was down with Mussolini's Fascism and largely OK with, even supportive of, Nazism.

    Not that the RCC has earned any sympathy after its long history...

    Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 6 hours ago

  • Daniel Mocsny
    But the problem is, if it is an allegory, why does the story-teller not tell us so?

    That might be like asking why Deepak Chopra today makes no sense. The term of art for...

    Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 6 hours ago

  • Daniel Mocsny

    Technically the pig farmers would have been conservatives, given that pigs were a common domesticated animal in the region before Judaism became established. That's also how archaeologists...

    Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 7 hours ago

  • Daniel Mocsny

    And if Jesus could violate the conservation laws by turning water into wine and multiplying the loaves and fishes, it should have been trivial for Jesus to compensate the victims of his property...

    Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 7 hours ago

  • Rick O'Sheikh

    And the destruction of the fig-tree. A fig-tree had to belong to someone, and even if it belonged to a temple or a community of some kind, someone had to take care of it. A fig-tree was very...

    Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 8 hours ago

  • John W. Loftus

    Ha ha ha! Perfect response.

    Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 10 hours ago

  • Tom

    probably liberals.

    Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 11 hours ago

  • Tom

    Your questions are legitimate, but Christian scholars are divided on the ultimate origin of "evil spirits", and therefore, how such story characters can be properly dealt with. Lay...

    Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 11 hours ago

  • Tom

    Should Jesus have compensated the pig-owners for the loss that he created? Mark 5:17 says that after this destruction of property, the people of that town begged for Jesus to leave. Sounds to me...

    Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 11 hours ago

About John W. Loftus and DC

5 Chapter Summaries of My Case vs Christianity
Invite John to Speak for Your Group
Loftus On Why I'm Not A Christian. [2008]
Loftus On Why I'm An Atheist. [2013]
Frequently Asked Questions
Some Interviews John Has Done
Advice if You Leave the Fold

A Few Links For Christian Apologists ;-)

The 5 Most Powerful Reasons for Unbelief
On The Demise of Evangelicalism
5 Definitive Answers To "You Never Were Christians"
Doubt Is The Adult Attitude & How Science Helps
Christianity is Unworthy of Thinking Adults
On God and Objective Moral Values
The Lie of the Exodus Out of Egypt
Plato's Cave Allegory and Faith
How To Destroy Natural Theology
Faith Based Belief Processes Are Unreliable
Faith and Reason are Mutually Exclusive
Dr. Hector Avalos Debates Biblical Morality
How to Debunk Christianity
The OT Caught in Lie After Lie
Here's the Evidence for the Multiverse
Take the Debunking Christianity Challenges
John's Top Posts from 2009 thru 2013

Please Support DC

If this Blog or John's books have been helpful to you please consider making a donation. Thanks so much!!!

There are several different ways to donate.

Blog Archive