During a visit to Alexandria around 69-70 CE, Vespasian was approached by a blind man and a lame man who sought his healing touch. The story of Vespasian's healing is often compared to the...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 8 · 1 hour ago
Something gamblers are keen to do, is boast about their wins, while keeping shtum about all the times they lose. Which usually turns out to be a lot more than the wins.
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 1 hour ago
An excellent lay introduction thereto is the book (recommended on this site numerous times), The Improbability Principle: Why Coincidences, Miracles, and Rare Events Happen Every Day by...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 1 hour ago
Thank you again Dr. Madison, for recommending my chapter on Jesus. At best, if we ignore a lot and try making some sense of what we find in the gospels, Jesus was a failed apocalyptic prophet. But...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 8 · 1 hour ago
Does anyone know whether Don Camp is still pleasuring the planet with his pious presence?
Yip! His most recent article posted on his shite blog, was yesterday. Apparently,...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 1 hour ago
I wonder whether stupid people can actually know they are stupid, relative to someone smarter.
Not according to John Cleese:-
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 1 hour ago
It's a problem already, without the assisstance of the Ukrainians. Drinking in the military has been a common practice dating back to pre-modern times, as alcohol was believed to provide...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 1 hour ago
So it was all about war, nothing to do with "practical" reasons other than winning battles.
As it is in modern times. In some theatres of operation, we had a two...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 2 hours ago
The headline writer seemingly has never read a sociobiology book, because the headline indicates ignorance about what a 'default setting' in biology is.
Yeah,...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 2 hours ago
Yeah, I thought it would be a great strategy for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, whenever they are forced to retreat, to leave easily discoverable stockpiles of vodka for the Russian soldiers to find....
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 14 hours ago
Perhaps he finally realized the futility of trying to spread his apologetics in a community much smarter than he is.
I wonder whether stupid people can actually know they...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 14 hours ago
Whatever practical reasons there were for banning alcohol...
The reasons Islam banned alcohol had nothing to do with health or social problems at all. It had nothing...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 15 hours ago
It's like the way that wildlife near me (deer, coyotes, etc.) use the local bike (multi-use) path as their wildlife corridor. The path goes through some wooded areas, where the animals live,...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 15 hours ago
The last two years have demonstrated that AI could be something like Galileo's telescope: a game-changer. Galileo's telescope had a magnifying power of about 30X, revolutionizing...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 15 hours ago
We never stayed in touch, so I can't help you there. I will be completing my 77th trip around the sun come September.
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 18 hours ago
There are so many problems with 1 Kings 18:20-40, such as how did Elijah know that just this one time, God was going to come through with the needed miracle? Presumably there have been countless...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 18 hours ago
[Sam] Harris also criticized existing empirical studies for limiting themselves to prayers for relatively unmiraculous events, such as recovery from heart surgery. He suggested a simple...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 18 hours ago
Incidentally you can ask an AI such as Google Gemini to explain the probability of getting those ten consecutive heads, and Gemini is smart enough to tell you about the binomial distribution and...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 18 hours ago
By analogy, there was a guy who videorecorded himself flipping a coin. After some long number of hours of coin-flipping, he managed to record a sequence of ten consecutive heads. So, he had video...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 18 hours ago
And a bit of general advice: while the ultimate goal may be deconverting your friend from religion, a possibly more attainable proximate goal would be to get your friend to read some books....
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 18 hours ago
Perhaps he finally realized the futility [...]
People also happen to be mortal. And old people, especially so. (Many of us are closer to the end than to the beginning.) Does...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 19 hours ago
People in the ancient world did not always believe in the gods, a new study suggests – casting doubt on the idea that religious belief is a 'default setting' for...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 19 hours ago
I didn't realize it had been that long. Perhaps he finally realized the futility of trying to spread his apologetics in a community much smarter than he is.
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 20 hours ago
The last time he was on Disqus, was also the last time he was here. Back in May 2023.
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 1 day ago
I think he shows up now and then when his martyr complex is in need of feeding.
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 1 day ago