Bart D. Ehrman vs. N. T. Wright on "Is Our Pain God's Problem?"
Link. You'll have to start from the bottom up to see the flow of things. Thanks to Ed Babinski that surfer of all surfers for this!
and what god could use is a good HR department.
Debunking Christianity: Why Do Christians Keep on Being Christian? · 4 hours ago
When sacrificing goats doesn't work, it obviously means you didn't sacrifice enough goats. Who knew that when Jesus said "Take no thought for the morrow" he actually meant...
Debunking Christianity: Why Do Christians Keep on Being Christian? · 4 hours ago
The nonpartisan party.
Debunking Christianity: Why Do Christians Keep on Being Christian? · 5 hours ago
God has more editors than any other writer. And more puppeteers than any other puppet.
Debunking Christianity: Why Do Christians Keep on Being Christian? · 5 hours ago
But they are really saying "dignifies us through make-work." Which they cannot truly believe. Consider a potential near-term future for humans: AI becomes smart enough to do all the real...
Debunking Christianity: Why Do Christians Keep on Being Christian? · 5 hours ago
There's a principle (and a book title) "Envy up; Scorn down".
Debunking Christianity: Why Do Christians Keep on Being Christian? · 5 hours ago
He is just so nice that he thinks of the others before himself. That's the kind of governor Texas is blessed with ! "Gov. Greg Abbott vowed that authorities will work around the clock...
Debunking Christianity: Why Do Christians Keep on Being Christian? · 10 hours ago
If prayer worked, Greg Abbott would be walking.
Debunking Christianity: Why Do Christians Keep on Being Christian? · 11 hours ago
I have observed before how both the NT and the Koran use strength/violence against the weak and weak responses against the strong. In the NT, the disciples are glad to have been selected to suffer...
Debunking Christianity: Why Do Christians Keep on Being Christian? · 11 hours ago
I loved that man. He never lost his sense of wonder at the universe. I once saw him from a distance, on his knees and hands, inspecting the ground like he was looking for something very small that...
Debunking Christianity: Why Do Christians Keep on Being Christian? · 12 hours ago
I have maintained for a long time that, at least up to a point, religion thrives on persecution, real or imaginary. The claim of persecution promotes the 'us against them' mentality. It...
Debunking Christianity: Why Do Christians Keep on Being Christian? · 13 hours ago
As Max Raabe said in one of his concerts, "A woman needs a man." Nervous titter from audience. "For example, to open bottles of champagne." Relieved laughter. "Or to...
Debunking Christianity: Why Do Christians Keep on Being Christian? · 13 hours ago
Then there's that echelon that feels good about themselves when they can say they're being persecuted "for jes' bein' Chrisshun."
Debunking Christianity: Why Do Christians Keep on Being Christian? · 13 hours ago
Since you mentioned French in another comment, a bit of useless info: in French the letters GPT are pronounced like "j’ai pété" ...like I...uh... released wind. So some joke by...
Debunking Christianity: Why Do Christians Keep on Being Christian? · 14 hours ago
Because it’s ultimately a matter of psychology and sociology. Did you know that even the strongest person can’t break an egg by applying equal pressure to both ends with their hands? When I was a...
Debunking Christianity: Why Do Christians Keep on Being Christian? · 14 hours ago
This man was a character with an extremely vivid imagination, and that's why I said I was not sure if he heard it somewhere or made it up himself. The traditional belief among the rest of the...
Debunking Christianity: Why Do Christians Keep on Being Christian? · 15 hours ago
I thought it was turtles all the way down.
Debunking Christianity: Why Do Christians Keep on Being Christian? · 15 hours ago
The usual answer from apologists is that God works through creatures as means; they are instruments in a causal series. And that gives the apologist a lot in which to glory, being made an actor...
Debunking Christianity: Why Do Christians Keep on Being Christian? · 15 hours ago
Is there a party of those who belong to no party ?
Debunking Christianity: Why Do Christians Keep on Being Christian? · 17 hours ago
Physics dictates the earth cannot possibly be flat. When a celestial object reaches a certain mass gravity will pull it into a spherical shape. You know that, and they would too if they ever...
Debunking Christianity: Why Do Christians Keep on Being Christian? · 17 hours ago
The toll is 51 dead and 27 missing now, Sunday morning. Gov. Greg Abbott [...] declared Sunday a day of prayer for the state. “I urge every Texan to join me in prayer this Sunday — for the...
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LOL.
Debunking Christianity: Why Do Christians Keep on Being Christian? · 21 hours ago
I like the expression "All seriousness aside" to mean the exact opposite. I've actually had people in real life complain that I use too much sarcasm. I don't think they were...
Debunking Christianity: Why Do Christians Keep on Being Christian? · 21 hours ago
It says something when that orange buffoon got voted into the WH...twice!
Yeah, it says the Flynn Effect has probably been over for quite a while. See my comment far above...
Debunking Christianity: Why Do Christians Keep on Being Christian? · 21 hours ago
Many locations in the American West are prone to flash flooding, especially normally arid areas with sloping land. The lack of thick vegetation cover combined with hard-pan soils prevents sudden...
Debunking Christianity: Why Do Christians Keep on Being Christian? · 21 hours ago