A Comedian on Genesis
Ed Babinski sent me this link to a comedian on Genesis. Check it out. It'll provide some respite from our usual debates.
Ah but they haven't met AI cats yet have they?
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 4 hours ago
The more anal the logic the better.
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 4 hours ago
Oh yes they are!
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 4 hours ago
The demons are from Canada?
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 4 hours ago
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 · 5 hours ago
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 · 5 hours ago
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 · 8 hours ago
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 · 8 hours ago
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 · 8 hours ago
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 · 9 hours ago
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 · 10 hours ago
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 · 10 hours ago
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 · 10 hours ago
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 · 10 hours ago
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 · 10 hours ago
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 · 10 hours ago
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 · 10 hours ago
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 · 10 hours ago
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 · 10 hours ago
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 · 10 hours ago
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 · 11 hours ago
Ha ha ha! Perfect response.
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 14 hours ago
probably liberals.
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 15 hours ago
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 · 15 hours ago
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 · 15 hours ago