Atheist Agenda "Smut for Smut" Campaign
What a Hoot!!! HT: Atheist Media Blog
Yeah, I thought it would be a great strategy for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, whenever they are forced to retreat, to leave easily discoverable stockpiles of vodka for the Russian soldiers to find....
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 11 hours ago
Perhaps he finally realized the futility of trying to spread his apologetics in a community much smarter than he is.
I wonder whether stupid people can actually know they...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 11 hours ago
Whatever practical reasons there were for banning alcohol...
The reasons Islam banned alcohol had nothing to do with health or social problems at all. It had nothing...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 12 hours ago
It's like the way that wildlife near me (deer, coyotes, etc.) use the local bike (multi-use) path as their wildlife corridor. The path goes through some wooded areas, where the animals live,...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 12 hours ago
The last two years have demonstrated that AI could be something like Galileo's telescope: a game-changer. Galileo's telescope had a magnifying power of about 30X, revolutionizing...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 13 hours ago
We never stayed in touch, so I can't help you there. I will be completing my 77th trip around the sun come September.
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 15 hours ago
There are so many problems with 1 Kings 18:20-40, such as how did Elijah know that just this one time, God was going to come through with the needed miracle? Presumably there have been countless...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 15 hours ago
[Sam] Harris also criticized existing empirical studies for limiting themselves to prayers for relatively unmiraculous events, such as recovery from heart surgery. He suggested a simple...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 15 hours ago
Incidentally you can ask an AI such as Google Gemini to explain the probability of getting those ten consecutive heads, and Gemini is smart enough to tell you about the binomial distribution and...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 15 hours ago
By analogy, there was a guy who videorecorded himself flipping a coin. After some long number of hours of coin-flipping, he managed to record a sequence of ten consecutive heads. So, he had video...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 15 hours ago
And a bit of general advice: while the ultimate goal may be deconverting your friend from religion, a possibly more attainable proximate goal would be to get your friend to read some books....
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 15 hours ago
Perhaps he finally realized the futility [...]
People also happen to be mortal. And old people, especially so. (Many of us are closer to the end than to the beginning.) Does...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 16 hours ago
People in the ancient world did not always believe in the gods, a new study suggests – casting doubt on the idea that religious belief is a 'default setting' for...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 16 hours ago
I didn't realize it had been that long. Perhaps he finally realized the futility of trying to spread his apologetics in a community much smarter than he is.
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 17 hours ago
The last time he was on Disqus, was also the last time he was here. Back in May 2023.
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 22 hours ago
I think he shows up now and then when his martyr complex is in need of feeding.
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 22 hours ago
Don Camp?
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 22 hours ago
I read somewhere about research that there was a number of largely isolated groups dotted around the Pacific islands iirc, that were similar to the Pirahã. I just can't remember where I read...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 23 hours ago
Yeah, I meant they were attending the camp in praise of the Lord. Not praising 24/7. Though maybe some were praising in their dreams. Though I doubt it.
Evidently when you really need a...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 1 day ago
Which is great for the casino hucksters, it's like a license to print money, unless your name is Trump and somehow you manage to bankrupt your casino.
Four of them ffs....
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 1 day ago
Although Woody Allen joked in one of his movies that he did not want to be a member of any group willing to have him...
Woody Allen made a reference to a Groucho Marx joke....
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 1 day ago
When I was in IVCF, our campus staff worker joked about how he'd ask one of the Christian students, "How are you doing?" The answer would be, "Great!" sometimes with the...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 1 day ago
Many of whom were at Christian girls summer camp. Praising the Lord I'd imagine.
I believe they were sleeping. The Guadalupe River rose in a few hours at night, in...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 1 day ago
Another relevant quote from The Triumph of Sociobiology:
The other pattern that emerges from any examination of genocide is the role of certain proximate psychological mechanisms...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 1 day ago
Daniel, I think Dennett's idea was that religion is not necessary for what believers claim it is necessary for. We can get over the fear of death without needing to posit faeries....
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 1 day ago