Countless Christians believe what Paul had to say, but would very unlikely believe the same things coming from someone in this day and age. There is something about being far removed in time that...
Debunking Christianity: New Testament Authors Get Low Marks for Common Sense and Sanity · 2 hours ago
And his letters are also full of examples where he sounds like a self deprecating, miserable wretch. The lowest of the low. Full of humility.
To me it all sounds like...
Debunking Christianity: New Testament Authors Get Low Marks for Common Sense and Sanity · 6 hours ago
Of course. And I take your point. I was using that answer as an example of the light in which apologists will paint the claim, that Paul was up his own hole. AI says:- While the term...
Debunking Christianity: New Testament Authors Get Low Marks for Common Sense and Sanity · 7 hours ago
His ego moved out of the way?? That's a good one ! Paul comes across as so full of himself he even boasts about not boasting. That depends on how you interpret it though....
Debunking Christianity: New Testament Authors Get Low Marks for Common Sense and Sanity · 8 hours ago
He made me laugh when he says:
Pedantic moment. I would imagine the correct pronoun should be "her".
Debunking Christianity: New Testament Authors Get Low Marks for Common Sense and Sanity · 8 hours ago
I read the link in your other comment, "Psychedelics, the Bible and the Divine", and it took me a while to be sure the author talked from the viewpoint of a Christian believer. He made me...
Debunking Christianity: New Testament Authors Get Low Marks for Common Sense and Sanity · 10 hours ago
I do not think this is an exception in the world until recent times. Maybe the opposite. I am not sure how things would have been in the Ancient Roman world, but if Paul indulged in...
Debunking Christianity: New Testament Authors Get Low Marks for Common Sense and Sanity · 11 hours ago
They say residue of various drugs is often considerable in Egyptian mummies.
Debunking Christianity: New Testament Authors Get Low Marks for Common Sense and Sanity · 22 hours ago
In my old country, the use of hashish and kif was not considered a problem at all until the French conquered the country and imposed their law. Up to the early 20th century, only people of a...
Debunking Christianity: New Testament Authors Get Low Marks for Common Sense and Sanity · 1 day ago
If Paul lived among us today and said and did the things reported in the NT, then yes, he would be crazy. But he lived in a different context. Within his cultural context, I think he was perfectly...
Debunking Christianity: New Testament Authors Get Low Marks for Common Sense and Sanity · 1 day ago
The claims Jesus spoke to Paul have the same truth as Allah sent Gabriel to speak to Mohammed or Angel Moroni spoke to Joseph Smith.
How DAFUQ they know feels or reals? Seen...
Debunking Christianity: New Testament Authors Get Low Marks for Common Sense and Sanity · 1 day ago
he was off his head on hallucinogen's.
Fuck I like this thanks Amoz, reading now
Debunking Christianity: New Testament Authors Get Low Marks for Common Sense and Sanity · 1 day ago
But was Paul actually insane?
So my Christian friends want me reading the new testament and lo and behold I’m reading shit from Paul like caught up to other heavens and...
Debunking Christianity: New Testament Authors Get Low Marks for Common Sense and Sanity · 1 day ago
Right, because nothing says 'universal truth' like a series of unverifiable conversations between invisible sky beings and guys who then conveniently founded religions.
Debunking Christianity: New Testament Authors Get Low Marks for Common Sense and Sanity · 1 day ago
But for the trend to continue, there must not be any countervailing factors that increase in intensity as the inequality gets worse. Such as, for example, the Christian moron marks...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 1 day ago
I would appreciate it if everyone sticks to the issues posted.
So do I...but unfortunately...gone are the good old days...these are the times we live in. A couple of days...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 1 day ago
Every time? Really? Hmmmm! You have an invisible leash? Color me skeptic. And you do everything you are told Daniel? Waoh...the US is well and truly fucked. Capitulation of the rational. Nah, you...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 1 day ago
Is China a "communist" country? Hardly. I would call it "state-controlled capitalism" or simply state capitalism. North Korea is a crazy dictatorship, no economic system at all....
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 2 days ago
The Conner-quotation from p. 531 of The Case Against Miracles is absolute gold.
Debunking Christianity: New Testament Authors Get Low Marks for Common Sense and Sanity · 2 days ago
In the USSR, we (my friends and I) got the distinct feeling that there was no system at all in the USSR. Even the people in charge of it did not truly believe in it. And that is why I...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 2 days ago
It has taken me 30 minutes to respond, then I lost my longer comment. You were "asked" not to respond. I would appreciate it if everyone sticks to the issues posted.
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 2 days ago
"Wet markets" are basically DYI biological weapons labs.
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 2 days ago
When I've gone to great lengths to support my argument on this topic, Daniel selects not to respond or to rebut, let alone concede.
Actually I've been told not to...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 2 days ago
And people still treat him as this wise sage despite what he wrote comes off the rantings/ravings of a mad man. That and ascribing his crap to the supposed Jesus Christ/God.
Debunking Christianity: New Testament Authors Get Low Marks for Common Sense and Sanity · 2 days ago
Yeah...I knew what ya meant.
I was just sharing the lies we were being told in the UK back in the 80's. Before the truth was known, never mind out.
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 2 days ago