Debate with Jerry McDonald: Fourth Round
The fourth round of my debate with preacher Jerry McDonald is now complete—there is one final round left (consisting of one affirmative and one rebuttal statement), plus Jerry’s concluding summary.
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I've looked pretty hard at why churches and seminaries are closing or merging. The hundreds of counter-apologetic books out there clearly have had something to do with it although...
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Weird and probably stupid thought: what if the Democrats were as jingoistic as Republicans but better at rigging the system to give more financial help to workers? Then we'd get...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 3 hours ago
Yes, thank you. James Aames put out a book that can help convince some believers, and that's a good thing, a worthy thing, something we should congratulate him for doing.
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 3 hours ago
Yes indeed!
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 3 hours ago
Once you’ve deconverted, you can’t just reduce your intake of sermons and worship music and feel a lot better. No, you’re much more like a cocaine addict. Do cocaine addicts slowly...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 3 hours ago
How would you steelman the issue Rabbi Tovia raises that Jewish women would never touch/apply spices to a male corpse? What the hell were these Jewish women thinking???
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 3 hours ago
Some internet sources say putrefaction becomes prominent 4 to 10 days after death.
To some species of fly it apparently takes as little as 30 seconds. But then, the...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 4 hours ago
"Stupid people press elevator buttons that have already been pressed."
What, you're telling me that doesn't speed the elevator up?!?!?!?! Yelling...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 4 hours ago
Years ago on SNL it may have been Tim Kazurinsky playing guru Havnagootiim Vishnuuerheer did a riff on Stupid People. One of the lines was, "Stupid people press elevator buttons that have...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 4 hours ago
This is, I think, most of the explanation for anti-semitism. The earliest Christians were all Jews, when Christianity was just a tiny cult. But they could not persuade many of their fellow Jews to...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 4 hours ago
Weird and probably stupid thought: what if the Democrats were as jingoistic as Republicans but better at rigging the system to give more financial help to workers? Then we'd get long-lasting...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 4 hours ago
A voter who flips a coin over a bumper sticker to 'decide' who to vote for doesn't deserve the right to vote.
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 4 hours ago
Much of what you write is persuasive. What could a fundagelical reply? Let's see... First, from mid-afternoon Friday to dawn on Sunday is just under 40 hours or so. Putrefaction wouldn't...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 4 hours ago
Generally speaking, humans have a pretty flat learning curve. In WWI a guesstimated 10 million soldiers died along with 10 million civilians. Convinced they could do it better, the...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 4 hours ago
Robert, I don't doubt what you say is broadly true. But why do you do it all of the time?
I can't speak for anyone in particular, but broadly speaking, one way...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 5 hours ago
It also appears that both Jewish and Roman law prohibited the burial of convicted criminals. According to Mark, the Jewish condemnation of Jesus was unanimous (14:64) and the Roman court also...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 5 hours ago
Back in the Covid plague years we had an acronym for that: TFSTL. Too Fucking Stupid To Live.
But they weren't actually TFSTL in some absolute sense. They were too...
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Trump radiates sleaze; anyone who doesn't pick up on it has zero social radar and is a natural born mark.
Yes, but millions of the same people (or the same kind of...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 6 hours ago
Well, that's the beauty of fiction, innit? It can always be spun in another direction which is exactly what we see the gospel writers doing again and again. Maybe the empty tomb was on the...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 7 hours ago
Generally speaking, humans have a pretty flat learning curve. In WWI a guesstimated 10 million soldiers died along with 10 million civilians. Convinced they could do it better, the combatants took...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 7 hours ago
In Rabbi Singer's youtube video above, he explains that the purpose of spices in Judaism was for the funeral service. It was to mask any smell from the dead body. Once the body was buried,...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 8 hours ago
Robert, I don't doubt what you say is broadly true. But why do you do it all of the time? James Aames is a guy who's trying to reach believers with a healthy discussion. What on your...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 9 hours ago
I would briefly respond by noting that nothing about Fat Donny's ever been a big secret. Not his frauds, or his bankruptcies, or his decades of skeezy associates. Trump radiates sleaze; anyone...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 10 hours ago
[...] I've long been puzzled by the idea an all powerful God could want anything.
Right, the human experience of want cannot be divorced from our incapacity. If I am...
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Trying to steelman: what if a fundagelical replies 1. the women didn't know that J + N had spiced the body 2. the women thought that after a day and a half (it wasn't literally 72 hours)...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 10 hours ago