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The Debunking Christianity Challenges

By Anonymous at 3/04/2011
Here are three Debunking Christianity Challenges:

1) The 2015 Debunking Christianity Challenge.

2) The Debunking Christianity Challenge, Part 2

3) The Debunking Christianity Challenge, Part 3

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  • 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 · 14 minutes 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 · 16 minutes 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 · 2 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 · 3 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 · 19 hours 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 · 19 hours 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 · 20 hours 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 · 20 hours 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 · 21 hours ago

  • Bholly72

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

    Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 21 hours ago

  • ORAXX

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

    Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 21 hours 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 · 21 hours 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 · 21 hours 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 · 22 hours ago

  • Robert Conner

    ISWYDT

    Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 22 hours 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 · 23 hours 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

  • Ficino
    which makes Jesusology basically a word game

    Well, in the beginning was the Logos/Word. Heh heh. /s

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

  • Robert Conner

    Interesting stuff. Goes to show that at the end of the day, Jesusology's a word game because the only evidence for early Christianity is words. Not even original words but words copied over...

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

  • Ignorant Amos

    Right.

    Whataboutery is interesting, but relevant because?

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

  • Daniel Mocsny
    That's true, but other factors come into play. For example, I'd not heard of Hyndman's book until here. Now that I have, am I going to splash out £23 on a deconversion...

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

  • Daniel Mocsny
    "Jesus Versus Christianity" by Alfred Reynolds (1993)
    “Docetists [...] maintained that since Christ was fully divine, he could not have been fully...

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

  • Daniel Mocsny
    " [...] Because of this, he maintains that, more than any other group in present day academia, biblical historians are under immense pressure to theologize their historical work...

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

  • Ignorant Amos

    Well, "concocted a lie" or "grief induced hallucinations", both have their places. Religious leaders, aka cult leaders, concoct lies all the time. They also believe they see...

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

  • Bholly72

    “Concocted a lie” — I’m so tired of this all too familiar straw man. I don’t know any atheist who claims that the disciples were lying. All you need is a couple of grief induced hallucinations, say...

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

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