What I find interesting, as a complete outsider, is why no major denominations have ended up taking out traditional books from the Bible. I know some protestants did that with apocrypha, but I mean...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 8 hours ago
Do you actually get into it with door to door preachers? I find it easier to just say, sorry not interested.
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 8 hours ago
This is all interesting. I haven't used Gemini and am not sure when I shall. Thanks, though.
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 9 hours ago
If someone is giving up 30 or more IQ points to you, they are probably suckers for the first powerful person who comes along and gives them an atta-boy, in contrast to the sneering they usually...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 11 hours ago
Yes, some people value having their beliefs confirmed endorsed more than they value their own survival. During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic we saw this playing out in real time, as...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 11 hours ago
Gospel Jesus himself said a prophet is not without honor save in his own country. The farther away a miracle claim (or a god) is in space and/or time, the more believable it becomes. Ancient people...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 12 hours ago
As I've pointed out repeatedly, among the tens of thousands of Christian brands, the Amish stand out particularly in their attempt to be somewhat consistent about rejecting modernity. But even...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 12 hours ago
What's funny is when Catholics (and Orthodox Christians) tout the ancient pedigree of their religion, as if that makes their current claims more likely to be true. But then you mention...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 12 hours ago
The named fallacies here are "appeal to tradition" and its contradictory twin, "appeal to novelty."
An appeal to tradition is a logical fallacy where something is...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 12 hours ago
As Ficino points out, it varies widely with the Christian brand. For the first thousand years of Christianity as a major religion (after its first few centuries as a tiny cult), most Christians...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 12 hours ago
Let them. I've found that Gemini will sometimes express an "in universe" viewpoint that it doesn't "really" "believe." If for example I point out that the...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 12 hours ago
Anyway, it's the sentiment that matters.
Precisely what a Christian might say when you point out a difficulty in their bible. I would say the habit of fact-checking...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 13 hours ago
But I can say quickly that if we look at Jesus as a "cult leader" in a cult revolving around himself, then, yes I would agree with what you are saying.
Things...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 15 hours ago
That goal, of course, may be the reinforcement of the cult and its leader, but still, he is not necessarily asking his followers to actually, literally, "hate" their families...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 16 hours ago
I was reading an article about this today. The writer (I already forget who) supposed that maybe Trump gives them back enough "stolen pride" that they feel compensated while they wait for...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 16 hours ago
That flood showed God's love. First, He scored a bunch of new angels. Second, He gave us the opportunity to direct thoughts and prayers. Third, those little girls who had sinned, or whose...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 16 hours ago
I have to leave for a few hours, and I will read your link when I come back. But I can say quickly that if we look at Jesus as a "cult leader" in a cult revolving around himself, then,...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 17 hours ago
That is what I actually meant. I did not mean that he was talking to specific individuals in the crowd, just that he was telling any potential candidates among them what he expected of...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 17 hours ago
In the case of the word "hate", I am certainly not defending Jesus or the gospel writer, but I do not have a problem with seeing it as hyperbole. I can easily accept that it is an...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 17 hours ago
Just the other day, my granddaughter asked her daddy if grandpa was a Christian. Her da redirected and I told her no.
Reminds me of 35 years ago in Texas. One day, my...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 18 hours ago
No, it is an instruction telling anyone who wants to be admitted to the in-group, what they must do to past muster.
That is what I actually meant. I did not mean that he was...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 18 hours ago
I think you are correct, although I doubt few people would trade modern medicine for that practiced in antiquity. ;)
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 18 hours ago
The notion had occurred to me to invite him in for a cup of tea. I live in the smallest of bungalows and the wall in the living room is my library. Just the other day, my granddaughter asked her...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 18 hours ago
...and did zip to protect those folks in Texas this week.
Many of whom were at Christian girls summer camp. Praising the Lord I'd imagine. Still, most escaped drowning,...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 18 hours ago
Luke 14:26, where Jesus declares that anyone who wants to follow him must “hate” their father, mother, spouse, children, even their own life, sounds like a message to the general...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 18 hours ago