I get what you are saying, but the idea is far from outlandish. Religious folk love to get the freak on. Rick mate....it's as realistic as fuck.
I think I was comparing...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 28 minutes ago
A bit longer ago than that.
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 7 hours ago
Realistically, if we were in a realistic world here, how likely is it for an ancient tribe to even allow a little boy to talk to people assembled in a temple court in the first place....
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 7 hours ago
That's why God has Wm. Lane Craig on retainer.
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 13 hours ago
Ehrman writes that Jesus was this "special" messenger that came down and took on the form of a human. This is not much different to what Carrier asserts.
Wow....
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 13 hours ago
After three days they found him in the temple courts, sitting among the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. 47 Everyone who heard him was amazed at his understanding...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 13 hours ago
The "cousins" and "stepsiblings" fudgery, is an ad hoc invention to fix a hole in the plot that didn't exist when gMark's author wrote his tale. There is no...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 16 hours ago
Jesus' own fellow villagers surely would not use the Aramaic equivalent of ἀδελφοί for "cousins" when talking to each other.
In fact, if the story were true,...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 17 hours ago
"Explanations, explanations"... Just about every sentence, maybe every word, in the "holy" books has to be justified, explained, "clarified", "interpreted"...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 17 hours ago
In the NT, the people knew (supposedly) the names of Jesus's siblings, and that would exclude the possibility they were using "brother" and "sister" as members...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 18 hours ago
Just this morning I thought of the gospel "brothers" vs. "cousins" thing!
I know something about that in my own old Kabyle culture. Today things have...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 19 hours ago
Good stuff, David. A few typos:
that the gospels tell to [the] true story
laying his hands of [on] them
Just this morning I thought of...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 21 hours ago
David, I am very flattered.
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 6 · 1 day ago
The JWST is turning the world of cosmology upside down, which is a welcome AFAIC. I've always viewed the Big Bang Theory (BBT) as a fairy tale, especially that it was started by...
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 2 days ago
Sad.
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 2 days ago
My poor father was diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenic. He was functional in many ways, but it got worse over time.
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 2 days ago
The majority of drivers don't end up in ditches. The number that does, is miniscule to the number of drivers out there. As you point out, the reasons are wide and varied, but it isn't...
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 2 days ago
My father claimed that he received visions that revealed things from God.
FUck waht?!?! MY Dad claimed (ya know bible god) voices arresting him in his car asking what would...
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 2 days ago
invoking divine inspiration as proof assumes the very thing in question — that a god exists and communicates — which is a textbook example of circular reasoning.
Fuck thanks...
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 2 days ago
Or in the case of the Buybull, the Lukan comma. 1. “Verily I say unto you, today you will be with me in paradise” 2. “Verily I say unto you today, you will be with me in paradise" Which makes...
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 2 days ago
And they all lived happily ever after ... oh wait (goes back to reread Revelation...)
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 3 days ago
We won't get fooled again. https://uploads.disquscdn.c...
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 3 days ago
Of course, but ya know what a mean.
Side observation: many if not most Christians picture God saying exactly that, every time we encounter a bible verse that makes no sense...
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 3 days ago
It's worth following the link and reading the whole thing. I like the way, when the various resurrection verses refer to the same thing N times, you get as many as N discrepant versions of it...
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 3 days ago
One way to process the shock is with sarcasm - oh I see you're already there.
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 3 days ago