That makes sense. I think I was - again - extrapolating too much out of my own old society, under French colonialism and never having given up hope for its independence. I had lost sight of the...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 14 hours ago
I read your link, and it is very interesting, but not because of the meaning of the word "hate" in the original. I never disputed that it means just that in the original,...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 14 hours ago
And why does it get misattributed?
Who knows? Folk love to make shite up. Others take some stuff on face value. Especially if it really isn't that important. Like Mark...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 18 hours ago
I live close t the Amish county of PA, and my wife and I go there quite often. Watching Amish people pass by in a buggy, I can’t help reflecting on the contradiction at the heart of their way of...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 1 day ago
That often gets misattributed to Albert Einstein. It makes no difference to the content of the quote that he likely didn't say it. There is no evidence that he did.
And...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 1 day ago
By analogy, try to imagine that today there would be a movement of "liberal Nazis" who continue to print and distribute and cherry-pick from complete copies of Hitler's Mein...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 1 day ago
You're thinking like a logical (if not entirely honest) businessperson thinks, when they re-brand to cover up whatever sordid behavior they did that damaged their existing brand. For example,...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 1 day ago
The Sufis of the past have been known to call themselves idiots, crazy, etc. The word "dervish" (as in the Whirling Dervishes of Turkey) means crazy, and Bahlool (or Bahlul) means someone...
Precisely what a Christian might say when you point out a difficulty in their bible.
How is that even relevant? If a Christer can rationally address a difficulty pointed out...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 1 day ago
I read your link, and it is very interesting, but not because of the meaning of the word "hate" in the original. I never disputed that it means just that in the original, hate. My...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 1 day ago
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 · 2 days 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 · 2 days 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 · 2 days 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 · 2 days 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 · 2 days 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 · 2 days 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 · 2 days 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 · 2 days 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 · 2 days 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 · 2 days 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 · 2 days 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 · 2 days 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 · 2 days 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 · 2 days 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 · 2 days ago