Antony Flew's Parable of the Invisible Gardener
This is a classic parable. What do you think? Much ink has been spilled over it, I know.
Yep!
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 20 minutes 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 · 25 minutes 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 · 25 minutes 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 · 1 hour 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 · 3 hours ago
OMG, "chariots of iron" were Panzers! Proof of something. ?? aliens!!
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 5 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 · 5 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 · 8 hours ago
Perhaps if the writers had had any idea of how seriously their work would be taken, they would have been more careful with it.
It would be a safe assumption that they were...
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 10 hours ago
Ah but they haven't met AI cats yet have they?
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 15 hours ago
The more anal the logic the better.
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 15 hours ago
Oh yes they are!
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 15 hours ago
The demons are from Canada?
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 15 hours ago
All the problems are made to go away by the doctrine of analogical predication.
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 16 hours ago
At least Switzerland had a real army, and mountains for defense. The Vatican only had its imaginary God, and maybe the potential discontent of all the Catholics serving in Nazi and...
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 16 hours ago
Religion and morality are not mutually exclusive, but they are far from the same thing.
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 19 hours ago
That's just it. I do not believe the genuine word of God would ever be subject to never ending debate.
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 19 hours ago
I'm cautiously optimistic that at my age I can stay ahead of the AI curve far enough it won't affect me much. Probably wishful thinking as technology is advancing at a frightening pace.
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 19 hours ago
One also wonders whether the Gospel writers met occasionally over drinks and had a running contest to see who could write the most ridiculous thing that grown men two thousand years later would...
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 21 hours ago
It all makes sense now. The whole scene seems unnecessarily dramatic, but perhaps demons are like Will Shatner and prone to hamming it up.
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 21 hours ago
I wonder, did Jesus have a Bacon Number of 2000? And speaking of the food, and not the prolific actor, perhaps Paul's Christianity wiped out the original Jewish Christianity partly on the...
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 21 hours ago
There's also the rather awkward issue that Jesus answers demon prayers! It's a wonder that Christians haven't taken the obvious lesson when Jesus refuses to grant their requests....
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 21 hours ago
And isn't there also the Thomist notion that God exists outside of time, whatever that means? So if demons had a beginning, then God experiences demons as existing and not existing at the same...
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 21 hours ago
Christian scholars are divided on the ultimate origin of "evil spirits"
As well they should be, given the absence of any objective data about evil spirits. To...
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 21 hours ago
I'm not opposed to every religion . . . only those involving people.
Looking to the future, I might be opposed to AI religion, should AI prove defective enough to have...
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 21 hours ago