Well, that's the beauty of fiction, innit? It can always be spun in another direction which is exactly what we see the gospel writers doing again and again. Maybe the empty tomb was on the...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 1 hour ago
Generally speaking, humans have a pretty flat learning curve. In WWI a guesstimated 10 million soldiers died along with 10 million civilians. Convinced they could do it better, the combatants took...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 1 hour ago
In Rabbi Singer's youtube video above, he explains that the purpose of spices in Judaism was for the funeral service. It was to mask any smell from the dead body. Once the body was buried,...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 2 hours ago
Robert, I don't doubt what you say is broadly true. But why do you do it all of the time? James Aames is a guy who's trying to reach believers with a healthy discussion. What on your...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 2 hours ago
I would briefly respond by noting that nothing about Fat Donny's ever been a big secret. Not his frauds, or his bankruptcies, or his decades of skeezy associates. Trump radiates sleaze; anyone...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 3 hours ago
[...] I've long been puzzled by the idea an all powerful God could want anything.
Right, the human experience of want cannot be divorced from our incapacity. If I am...
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 3 hours ago
Trying to steelman: what if a fundagelical replies 1. the women didn't know that J + N had spiced the body 2. the women thought that after a day and a half (it wasn't literally 72 hours)...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 3 hours ago
"Joseph of Arimathea asked Pilate for the body of Jesus. Now Joseph was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly because he feared the Jewish leaders. With Pilate’s permission, he came and took the...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 4 hours ago
"It’s okay to engage in healthy discussions, but you will learn (as I did) that arguing with Christians either face-to-face or virtually wastes a lot of time and serves mostly to...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 4 hours ago
One: evidence means next to nothing to them. Most of can't even define it.
Oh, they're happy to accept evidence when it tells them what they want. For example, if...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 4 hours ago
I've come across another strategy to debunk Christianity's claims: Expose Christians to Jewish critiques of Christianity's claims. Most Christians have never heard the Jewish side of...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 5 hours ago
"Jesus will kick their ass."
Liberal Protestant: Well, that's a metaphor for ...
Fundagelical: Yeah, and I'll be kicking it too, and laughing.
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 5 hours ago
This goes back to the picture of God as like a middle school boy playing with an ant farm.
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 5 hours ago
My alternate theology holds that the kingdom of heaven awaits those who reject magic books and think for themselves. Heaven being where all the great minds gather and mingle until such time they...
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 6 hours ago
I do not believe the genuine word of God would ever be subject to never ending debate.
Unless God wanted to cause a never-ending debate. If God is omnipotent and...
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 6 hours ago
The thing is, the RCC is a worldwide institution. Could Hitler afford the Holy See to come right out against his regime? Nazi Germany was around 41% Catholic, and Hitler was one of them. Hitler...
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 6 hours ago
https://uploads.disquscdn.c... "It’s okay to engage in healthy discussions, but you will learn (as I did) that...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 6 hours ago
Yep!
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 7 hours ago
It's not just apologists who are making the argument though, it's bona fide scholars, some of whom are atheists.
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 7 hours ago
But the problem is, if it is an allegory, why does the story-teller not tell us so?
The whole point of allegory is a hidden message. And used in gMark to cover an idea that...
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 7 hours ago
You can always count for the apologists to assert something is an allegory or metaphor when a verse is incoherent or makes no sense and contradictory. Who knows, maybe, like they say we...
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 8 hours ago
I asked ChatGPT your question, framing it from my own viewpoint: Me: -- "Someone asked: "aren't there people who speculate that gMark was written by a Roman or associate of Romans,...
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 10 hours ago
OMG, "chariots of iron" were Panzers! Proof of something. ?? aliens!!
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 12 hours ago
I'm too lazy to look this up, but aren't there people who speculate that gMark was written by a Roman or associate of Romans, or at least that it was written in Rome for a gentile audience?
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 12 hours ago
"...even if the Catholic Church had been in some sense moral at the time, it's not clear how much they could have done to stop Hitler and Mussolini."
They had...
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 15 hours ago