FFRF's "Fool Me Once" Campaign Looks Excellent!
Link.
OT: is anyone planning to watch Bart Ehrman's presentation against mythicism?
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 8 · 9 hours ago
My ten year old grandson sent me a photograph yesterday. He is on a family holiday in Florida. In the pic, he is wearing a red MAGAt baseball cap. Of course he is doing it to wind me up. He said he...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 8 · 11 hours ago
Writing about the miracle was clearly more effective than the miracle itself. And the writing is just as effective if the miracle never occurred at all. Of course there is no reason to suspect that...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 8 · 11 hours ago
Seemingly every human is genetically programmed to believe, on a deep and fundamental level, that they are the most important individual to have lived - and ditto for their group. So of...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 12 hours ago
Yes, some people actually care about getting the attributions right.
I never said I didn't care. I said that it's the sentiment, i.e. the point being made in the...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 8 · 12 hours ago
Hal Lindsey died? At the age of 95? Too bad he will never know he was wrong. He did make lots of money though.
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 13 hours ago
The Guadalupe River rose in a few hours at night, in keeping with the its local nickname "Flash Flood Alley" because of its history.
I am sure everyone who goes...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 13 hours ago
So you might think that only a severely mentally retarded person could be unaware that Trump lies as easily as he breathes. But you would be wrong. Tens of millions of die-hard Trump...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 8 · 15 hours ago
Peter declares that Jesus is the long-predicted messiah, but Jesus urges that the disciples don’t disclose this information to anyone. This is another example of insider...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 8 · 23 hours ago
The entirety of the human experience does not constitute so much as an eye-blink on the time scale of the universe. The Christian era constitutes no more than 2-3% of that eye-blink. In spite of...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 8 · 1 day ago
"The signs are everywhere that we are living in last days of humanity on earth."
The confirmation bias and self-serving bias are everywhere too. Incidentally Hal...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 1 day ago
Yes, some people actually care about getting the attributions right. Speaking of which, here's a great quotation by Mark Twain which he might...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 8 · 1 day ago
Quoting Richard Carrier:
No real human beings would ever be that dense or take so long to understand what Jesus was saying and doing…
I'm not saying I disagree, but...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 8 · 1 day ago
I guess this is often commented on, but I think it's weird that Jesus takes the blind man outside the village before spitting on his eyes etc. Then, after the second application brings the...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 8 · 1 day ago
Who cares?
Scholars.
Like Dennis R. MacDonald for example.
And those interested in their work.
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 8 · 1 day ago
Ancient Egypt goes back 5000 BCE. Their civilization was awash with gods, supernatural powers and miracles. Add to that the Greek and Roman civilizations which were also up to their neck in those...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 8 · 1 day ago
During a visit to Alexandria around 69-70 CE, Vespasian was approached by a blind man and a lame man who sought his healing touch. The story of Vespasian's healing is often compared to the...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 8 · 1 day ago
Something gamblers are keen to do, is boast about their wins, while keeping shtum about all the times they lose. Which usually turns out to be a lot more than the wins.
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 1 day ago
An excellent lay introduction thereto is the book (recommended on this site numerous times), The Improbability Principle: Why Coincidences, Miracles, and Rare Events Happen Every Day by...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 1 day ago
Thank you again Dr. Madison, for recommending my chapter on Jesus. At best, if we ignore a lot and try making some sense of what we find in the gospels, Jesus was a failed apocalyptic prophet. But...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 8 · 1 day ago
Does anyone know whether Don Camp is still pleasuring the planet with his pious presence?
Yip! His most recent article posted on his shite blog, was yesterday. Apparently,...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 1 day ago
I wonder whether stupid people can actually know they are stupid, relative to someone smarter.
Not according to John Cleese:-
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 1 day ago
It's a problem already, without the assisstance of the Ukrainians. Drinking in the military has been a common practice dating back to pre-modern times, as alcohol was believed to provide...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 1 day ago
So it was all about war, nothing to do with "practical" reasons other than winning battles.
As it is in modern times. In some theatres of operation, we had a two...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 1 day ago
The headline writer seemingly has never read a sociobiology book, because the headline indicates ignorance about what a 'default setting' in biology is.
Yeah,...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 1 day ago