If you were to encounter a street preacher standing on a corner saying things similar to what Paul supposedly said, very few people would believe what they heard. So, that raises the question of...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 1 hour ago
To add to my post, just as love in religious texts is usually reserved for the in-group, so is the anger at, even hatred of, the "sinner", concern for repentance and moral correction. The...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 1 hour ago
As Daniel Dennett used to say: "Religion is a crutch that people don't need."
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 2 hours ago
Preachers love to quote the occasional feel-good texts that we find in his letters, e.g. “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 3 hours ago
I can excuse newer Christians for their biblical ignorance, since I too used to be an ignorant Christian. But that was back in my 20's. I never cease to be amazed at the fact that the vast...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 3 hours ago
There is no hint here whatever that god was displeased or angry.
I've had this discussion with holy rollers numerous times, over the years. The incestuous rape of Lot...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 4 hours ago
I just read this and thought it would be of interest.
Debunking Christianity: Why Do Christians Keep on Being Christian? · 5 hours ago
Thank you for this, David. Yes, so much whacked out.
Leviticus must also prove to a tough slog. So many ancient laws that make so sense.
I remember an old Pentecostal lady...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 6 hours ago
I guess one way to understand asking people to "offer privacy and prayers" is, "Just pray for me and otherwise mind your own damn business."
Debunking Christianity: Why Do Christians Keep on Being Christian? · 20 hours ago
How does one offer prayers and privacy...trying to understand here...
Trance words are for virtue signaling, not for understanding.
Debunking Christianity: Why Do Christians Keep on Being Christian? · 20 hours ago
Not sure this is off-topic or not: Title in Politico.com today, "Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and wife announce divorce on ‘biblical grounds’".
Debunking Christianity: Why Do Christians Keep on Being Christian? · 22 hours ago
I think of galaxies as more of a collection of celestial objects. Perhaps at some point in the distant future, all those bodies making up a galaxy may be absorbed into super-massive black holes.
Debunking Christianity: Why Do Christians Keep on Being Christian? · 2 days ago
The evangelicals that support Trump hate each other to death.
Exactly! Hence my point on who will be the last man standing in the Trumpian dystopia of Christian Nationalist...
Debunking Christianity: Why Do Christians Keep on Being Christian? · 3 days ago
It's denominations all the way down. Even official denominations (think Anglican, Catholic etc) have strong factions, and factions within factions. The evangelicals that support Trump hate...
Debunking Christianity: Why Do Christians Keep on Being Christian? · 3 days ago
I fed ChatGPT some ideas and asked it to word it all for me. I took a joke I have posted here a few times before, but I find it very revealing. It never personally made me laugh at all, in fact. It...
Debunking Christianity: Why Do Christians Keep on Being Christian? · 3 days ago
The irony is, that they have tried that already, using wars.
I wonder which denomination will win when the US becomes Gilead and the Christian Nationalists take charge?
Debunking Christianity: Why Do Christians Keep on Being Christian? · 3 days ago
Maybe what they need is a denomination to end all denominations. As a military man I'm sure you'll appreciate the joke!
Debunking Christianity: Why Do Christians Keep on Being Christian? · 3 days ago
Religion and Racism. Name a more iconic duo!
Debunking Christianity: Why Do Christians Keep on Being Christian? · 3 days ago
What kind of a God would transmit the most important message imaginable in a form subject to never-ending debate?
The kind of God who also gives us Galatians 3:28,...
Debunking Christianity: Why Do Christians Keep on Being Christian? · 3 days ago
I asked Gemini (link) about their doctrinal differences and the result is illuminating. Although Gemini did not know specifics about these two...
Debunking Christianity: Why Do Christians Keep on Being Christian? · 3 days ago
Ah yes, hydrostatic equilibrium, one of the necessary conditions for a smallish celestial object to qualify as a planet. But a planet has to get over a higher hurdle, that of clearing its orbit of...
Debunking Christianity: Why Do Christians Keep on Being Christian? · 3 days ago
There is another reality that is not as offensive as lying for Jesus, but which also causes damage. There are clergy who decline to enlighten the folks in their congregations about the...
Debunking Christianity: Why Do Christians Keep on Being Christian? · 3 days ago
I don't know about stupider, but lazier for sure. The net effect is about the same either way.
Debunking Christianity: Why Do Christians Keep on Being Christian? · 4 days ago
LOL !!
Debunking Christianity: Why Do Christians Keep on Being Christian? · 4 days ago
The Peoples Front of Judea, or the Judean Peoples Front?
The Popular Front...splitter!
Debunking Christianity: Why Do Christians Keep on Being Christian? · 4 days ago