Ex-Preacher Says Good-bye to God
*ahem* That's me. All are welcome.
I was a traditionalist Catholic, and I think that Leo XIII gave a definition of inerrancy very close to that of the Chicago Statement in Providentissimus Deus. Of course, since Vatican 2,...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 1 minute ago
If Hopeful Theism converted to the RCs, then HT can run with pretty much any definition of inerrancy that can be construed as consistent with the RCs' "for the sake of our salvation"...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 29 minutes ago
Frank Turek has an interesting way of defining inerrancy: when the Bible gets something right, then it “affirms” this thing that it got right. Whenever the Bible gets something wrong,...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 36 minutes ago
Peasants all over the world thought that way until very recent times. Maybe, who knows, even today in some parts. I remember your story about the Jewish woman with goat's feet. Quite...
Debunking Christianity: New Testament Authors Get Low Marks for Common Sense and Sanity · 17 hours ago
As I said before, people in Morocco told me stories like this.
Debunking Christianity: New Testament Authors Get Low Marks for Common Sense and Sanity · 17 hours ago
I just went back and found the reference. It is in the discussion with the first caller named Ulrich, at timestamp 31:25.
Debunking Christianity: New Testament Authors Get Low Marks for Common Sense and Sanity · 22 hours ago
The illiterate peasants I grew up with would have had no trouble believing there was such a mountain, even if you brought up the fact that if it existed, then you would see it from everywhere, too....
Debunking Christianity: New Testament Authors Get Low Marks for Common Sense and Sanity · 23 hours ago
If such a mountain existed, we should be able to step outside and see it. How could the devil show an all-knowing being anything?
Debunking Christianity: New Testament Authors Get Low Marks for Common Sense and Sanity · 23 hours ago
Thanks for letting me know!
Debunking Christianity: New Testament Authors Get Low Marks for Common Sense and Sanity · 23 hours ago
O/T I was watching Can You Make Us BELIEVERS? Call Seth Andrews & Austin Archer | Sunday Show AFTER DARK 05.25.25 last night , and Seth Andrews cited @johnwloftus:disqus...
Debunking Christianity: New Testament Authors Get Low Marks for Common Sense and Sanity · 1 day ago
Superman has super telescopic vision. Why not the Devil? That's the beauty of fictional character - you can give them any superpower, They are limited only by your...
Debunking Christianity: New Testament Authors Get Low Marks for Common Sense and Sanity · 2 days ago
So not very likely?
Debunking Christianity: New Testament Authors Get Low Marks for Common Sense and Sanity · 2 days ago
"Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor." (Matthew 4:8) The view from the top of Everest, 29,000 feet, is a bit...
Debunking Christianity: New Testament Authors Get Low Marks for Common Sense and Sanity · 2 days ago
Countless Christians believe what Paul had to say, but would very unlikely believe the same things coming from someone in this day and age. There is something about being far removed in time that...
Debunking Christianity: New Testament Authors Get Low Marks for Common Sense and Sanity · 2 days ago
And his letters are also full of examples where he sounds like a self deprecating, miserable wretch. The lowest of the low. Full of humility.
To me it all sounds terribly...
Debunking Christianity: New Testament Authors Get Low Marks for Common Sense and Sanity · 2 days ago
Of course. And I take your point. I was using that answer as an example of the light in which apologists will paint the claim, that Paul was up his own hole. AI says:- While the term...
Debunking Christianity: New Testament Authors Get Low Marks for Common Sense and Sanity · 2 days ago
His ego moved out of the way?? That's a good one ! Paul comes across as so full of himself he even boasts about not boasting. That depends on how you interpret it though....
Debunking Christianity: New Testament Authors Get Low Marks for Common Sense and Sanity · 2 days ago
He made me laugh when he says:
Pedantic moment. I would imagine the correct pronoun should be "her".
Debunking Christianity: New Testament Authors Get Low Marks for Common Sense and Sanity · 2 days ago
I read the link in your other comment, "Psychedelics, the Bible and the Divine", and it took me a while to be sure the author talked from the viewpoint of a Christian believer. He made me...
Debunking Christianity: New Testament Authors Get Low Marks for Common Sense and Sanity · 3 days ago
I do not think this is an exception in the world until recent times. Maybe the opposite. I am not sure how things would have been in the Ancient Roman world, but if Paul indulged in...
Debunking Christianity: New Testament Authors Get Low Marks for Common Sense and Sanity · 3 days ago
They say residue of various drugs is often considerable in Egyptian mummies.
Debunking Christianity: New Testament Authors Get Low Marks for Common Sense and Sanity · 3 days ago
In my old country, the use of hashish and kif was not considered a problem at all until the French conquered the country and imposed their law. Up to the early 20th century, only people of a...
Debunking Christianity: New Testament Authors Get Low Marks for Common Sense and Sanity · 3 days ago
If Paul lived among us today and said and did the things reported in the NT, then yes, he would be crazy. But he lived in a different context. Within his cultural context, I think he was perfectly...
Debunking Christianity: New Testament Authors Get Low Marks for Common Sense and Sanity · 4 days ago
The claims Jesus spoke to Paul have the same truth as Allah sent Gabriel to speak to Mohammed or Angel Moroni spoke to Joseph Smith.
How DAFUQ they know feels or reals? Seen...
Debunking Christianity: New Testament Authors Get Low Marks for Common Sense and Sanity · 4 days ago
he was off his head on hallucinogen's.
Fuck I like this thanks Amoz, reading now
Debunking Christianity: New Testament Authors Get Low Marks for Common Sense and Sanity · 4 days ago