Ex-Preacher Says Good-bye to God
*ahem* That's me. All are welcome.
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 · 19 minutes 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 · 5 hours 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 · 5 hours ago
Don Camp?
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 5 hours ago
I read somewhere about research that there was a number of largely isolated groups dotted around the Pacific islands iirc, that were similar to the Pirahã. I just can't remember where I read...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 6 hours ago
Yeah, I meant they were attending the camp in praise of the Lord. Not praising 24/7. Though maybe some were praising in their dreams. Though I doubt it.
Evidently when you really need a...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 7 hours ago
Which is great for the casino hucksters, it's like a license to print money, unless your name is Trump and somehow you manage to bankrupt your casino.
Four of them ffs....
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 7 hours ago
Although Woody Allen joked in one of his movies that he did not want to be a member of any group willing to have him...
Woody Allen made a reference to a Groucho Marx joke....
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 8 hours ago
When I was in IVCF, our campus staff worker joked about how he'd ask one of the Christian students, "How are you doing?" The answer would be, "Great!" sometimes with the...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 9 hours ago
Many of whom were at Christian girls summer camp. Praising the Lord I'd imagine.
I believe they were sleeping. The Guadalupe River rose in a few hours at night, in...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 9 hours ago
Another relevant quote from The Triumph of Sociobiology:
The other pattern that emerges from any examination of genocide is the role of certain proximate psychological mechanisms...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 9 hours ago
Daniel, I think Dennett's idea was that religion is not necessary for what believers claim it is necessary for. We can get over the fear of death without needing to posit faeries....
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 9 hours ago
Thanks for that. I was just reading in The Triumph of Sociobiology (2001) by John Alcock (fabulous book BTW, although it predates the genomics revolution) about how "cultural...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 9 hours ago
Right, instead of "need it" I should have written "need to believe you have it" or "need to fool others into thinking you have it". A good deal of Christianity amounts...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 10 hours ago
I just checked, the last time was as recently as two years ago. I thought it was longer ago than that. Go figure, eh!
A lot has happened in two years! Like Felon 47, and the...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 10 hours ago
I have a Christian friend who is going through a tough time and he admitted privately to me that if this thing doesn't get resolved, there is a good chance he might leave the...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 10 hours ago
I wonder how many Bible-believing, spirit-filled washed in Blood of the Lamb born againers suffer from anxiety, depression, etc., and either deny it or beat themselves up for not Jesusing...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 1 day ago
Wow! That's a lot of blog posts destroying Don Camp's attempts to defend the indefensible!
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 1 day ago
Just to add, and in case you were not aware, a number has been done on Don Camp here already:-
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 1 day ago
...Christianity was never as united against slavery as they were historically united against the Jews. Or against the gays. Or against witches.
What do the Jews, the gays...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 1 day ago
I gave him the following advice, "Bet on your God:" If things work out, while I won't accept that as evidence, I won't argue you with you and let you conclude that...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 1 day ago
Hi Greg, you have more knowledge about his situation than I do. You also have enough wisdom the respond to his situation. My guess is you might have him on the hook but he's liable to slip off it,...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 1 day ago
@JohnLoftus @Ignorant_Amos:disqus@danielmocsny:disqus Gents, I need your advice. I have a Christian friend who is going through a tough time and he admitted privately to me that if this thing...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 1 day ago
It depends on what kind of mood I'm in at the time.
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 2 days ago
That makes sense. I think I was - again - extrapolating too much out of my own old society, under French colonialism and never having given up hope for its independence. I had lost sight of the...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 3 days ago