I remember back when the paper was published, I had a different approach to the situation than I have today. I thought it was highly dishonest for a disbelieving preacher to lie to the gullible...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 10 minutes ago
Yup! Had Jesus taught people the value of sanitation and hygiene, he would have contributed far more actual good to the world than he did.
Debunking Christianity: Careful Bible Study Shows It’s Not a Divinely Inspired Book · 20 minutes ago
It wasn't too long ago that audiences would gather at public executions or lynchings and laugh at the painful struggles of the victims. Robert Sapolsky describes this behavior from...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 30 minutes ago
Had god included "wash your hands after taking a shit"...
Debunking Christianity: Careful Bible Study Shows It’s Not a Divinely Inspired Book · 2 hours ago
That's why you should never inspire illiterate goat herders to write.
Debunking Christianity: Careful Bible Study Shows It’s Not a Divinely Inspired Book · 2 hours ago
‘Indeed, if you say something while knowing that someone else will form an incorrect belief as a result of what you said, then you have told a lie. At a bare minimum, you did not act in...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 2 hours ago
I'd advise anyone in TACO's inner circle to be blitzed on something.
Debunking Christianity: Careful Bible Study Shows It’s Not a Divinely Inspired Book · 4 hours ago
they can’t be bothered to engage in serious, critical study of the gospels
When the gospels have loaves multiplied, god-beings walking on water, demons in pigs, insta...
Debunking Christianity: Careful Bible Study Shows It’s Not a Divinely Inspired Book · 4 hours ago
The context of Sagan’s quote from chapter 2 might give more meaning to your thoughts on the quote:
There is much that science doesn't understand, many mysteries still to be...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 4 hours ago
Had God included in the bible a little of quantum physics - you know, such things as the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, the Schrödinger equation, quantum entanglement - even though the people...
Debunking Christianity: Careful Bible Study Shows It’s Not a Divinely Inspired Book · 6 hours ago
I'd advise anyone in TACO's inner circle to be blitzed on something.
Debunking Christianity: Careful Bible Study Shows It’s Not a Divinely Inspired Book · 14 hours ago
Their stories sound like a collaboration between RFK, Jr and Donny Trump.
While high on Elon's supply.
Debunking Christianity: Careful Bible Study Shows It’s Not a Divinely Inspired Book · 15 hours ago
The gospels were in fact, divinely inspired. What is not generally known however is that God had consumed several barrels of communion wine and was feeling puckish. Being fairly well pickled, he...
Debunking Christianity: Careful Bible Study Shows It’s Not a Divinely Inspired Book · 18 hours ago
I'm redoing a multi-part examination of the resurrection accounts. We're up to Part 3 with at least a couple more installments to go:
Debunking Christianity: Careful Bible Study Shows It’s Not a Divinely Inspired Book · 18 hours ago
Now, now everyone we all know our beloved Liberal/Progressive Christians are the ones can tell you with certainly what is or isn't true in The Holy Bible. What's a metaphor, what's a...
Debunking Christianity: Careful Bible Study Shows It’s Not a Divinely Inspired Book · 19 hours ago
Caravaggio’s 1602 painting reminds me of:
Debunking Christianity: Careful Bible Study Shows It’s Not a Divinely Inspired Book · 20 hours ago
So for starters Licona doesn't even try to defend his limited inerrancy. Instead he just pulls a Tu quoque fallacy (Wikipedia link)...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 21 hours ago
I have added another video of Licona’s attempting to rethink inerrancy in a post-hoc fashion. Would love to hear your thoughts on this.
Transcribing the video to text form...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 21 hours ago
Indeed, the seminal paper and the book* for the Clergy Project each present multiple case studies of clergy-folk who realized their faith was bunk, but stayed on in their jobs to fake it, since the...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 21 hours ago
We cannot rule out, for example, that Gospel Jesus "predicts" his own death and resurrection by having those elements written into the story later by someone else. For example, suppose...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 22 hours ago
From 2:16 in the video: "I'm sorry it seems harsh, and I used to be much more generous about it but right now I would take homeopaths and I'd put them in a big sack with psychics,...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 22 hours ago
And on second thought, I'm going to question Carl Sagan's characterization of science as "far from" a perfect instrument of knowledge. Perhaps there's a bit of equivocating...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 22 hours ago
But weren't the Nazis established by God?
The Nazis had at least the next-best thing, the Pope's endorsement!
Also Revelation 21:8 says...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 23 hours ago
Yes, Turek is skipping a few (dozen, hundred, thousands) of intermediate steps between "whatever the guy says" and what eventually trickles down to Turek. Would Turek even be able to...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 1 day ago
Also see my other comment in this thread (link) about preregistration in...
Debunking Christianity: Rethinking Inerrancy so as to Take Account of all the Errors in the Bible: · 1 day ago