Quote of the Day, by Mike D
God is nothing more than the biggest argument from ignorance ever devised – an attempt to hastily dismiss mysteries by appealing to a bigger, by-definition-unsolvable mystery.
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God is nothing more than the biggest argument from ignorance ever devised – an attempt to hastily dismiss mysteries by appealing to a bigger, by-definition-unsolvable mystery.
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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! · 5 minutes 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! · 10 minutes 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! · 13 minutes 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! · 17 minutes 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! · 20 minutes 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! · 24 minutes 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! · 41 minutes 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! · 1 hour 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...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 1 hour ago
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! · 1 hour 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! · 3 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! · 3 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! · 4 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! · 4 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! · 5 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...
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 5 hours ago
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! · 6 hours ago
"Joseph of Arimathea asked Pilate for the body of Jesus. Now Joseph was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly because he feared the Jewish leaders. With Pilate’s permission, he came and took the...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 6 hours ago
"It’s okay to engage in healthy discussions, but you will learn (as I did) that arguing with Christians either face-to-face or virtually wastes a lot of time and serves mostly to...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 6 hours ago
One: evidence means next to nothing to them. Most of can't even define it.
Oh, they're happy to accept evidence when it tells them what they want. For example, if...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 6 hours ago
I've come across another strategy to debunk Christianity's claims: Expose Christians to Jewish critiques of Christianity's claims. Most Christians have never heard the Jewish side of...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 7 hours ago
"Jesus will kick their ass."
Liberal Protestant: Well, that's a metaphor for ...
Fundagelical: Yeah, and I'll be kicking it too, and laughing.
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 7 hours ago
This goes back to the picture of God as like a middle school boy playing with an ant farm.
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 8 hours ago
My alternate theology holds that the kingdom of heaven awaits those who reject magic books and think for themselves. Heaven being where all the great minds gather and mingle until such time they...
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 8 hours ago
I do not believe the genuine word of God would ever be subject to never ending debate.
Unless God wanted to cause a never-ending debate. If God is omnipotent and...
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 8 hours ago