Observers who suggested the Northern Ireland scenario for the US also noted that it's not just the head count that determines the who wins, it's the level of commitment. If I believe my...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 13 minutes ago
"It makes sense that rational people who argue from evidence believe such argumentation works because it worked for them and they can point to successful outcomes," <--- 100% agree....
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 59 minutes ago
2. the women thought that after a day and a half (it wasn't literally 72 hours) spices might still mask some of the odor
But what odor? Didn't those women believe...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 1 hour ago
They''re calling it BDE these days.
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 1 hour ago
Exactly. If recent history in the US has taught anything it's this: It's not about reality, it's about belief. It won't happen to me; the leopard won't eat my face,...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 1 hour ago
Way back in 2023 when I wrote The Death of Christian Belief, I thought demographics would surely hammer the last nail into the coffin of American Christianity. Now it appears that assumption...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 1 hour ago
Mark was making his own tales about the Jesus character, no doubt. The later gospels then redacted, or in some cases, rewrote gMark. The Gospel according to Mark, was not popular in the early...
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 1 hour ago
All very good points and I agree. The reason I wrote that is because many of the deconverting Christians I've met (myself included) are seekers. They are curious and they DO read the bible,...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 2 hours ago
1. The Book of Acts states that the disciples were still worshiping in the Temple and offering sacrifices for purification 25 years after Jesus' death. 2. Only a moron would apply spices to a...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 2 hours ago
"what traditional Christian values isn't he accepting?"
The definition of traditional Christian values changes about every decade. :)
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 2 hours ago
"There's no question counter-apologetics works at the margins" I don't see my target audience as the margins. Christianity has lost 1% of the American population every year for...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 2 hours ago
Trump is a greedy, lying, hateful, misogynistic racist - what traditional Christian values isn't he accepting?
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 3 hours ago
The whole point of allegory is a hidden message. And used in gMark to cover an idea that would be classed as seditious in plain speak that all could interpret.
When seen...
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 3 hours ago
I pretty much agree, cept that Trump can ignore a huge number of traditional Christian values and still get votes of Christians who hate the libs even more than they hate traditional sinners. (And...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 5 hours ago
Steelmaker, steelmaker, think up a dodge ... Jesus had already told his followers that he came to fulfill the law. So the women knew that the halakhic prohibition didn't apply anymore. Or: the...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 5 hours ago
Stupid people get an amplifier with a knob that you can dial all the way up to ELEVEN!
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 5 hours ago
Joseph Campbell pointed out that that the gods people believe in, almost always resemble the culture it came from.
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon about the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 5 · 6 hours ago
After each four or eight years of Democratic prosperity, people forget that Republicans wreck economies, and vote them back in to do it again.
True to some extent. However,...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 7 hours ago
I've looked pretty hard at why churches and seminaries are closing or merging. The hundreds of counter-apologetic books out there clearly have had something to do with it although...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 13 hours 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...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 13 hours ago
Yes, thank you. James Aames put out a book that can help convince some believers, and that's a good thing, a worthy thing, something we should congratulate him for doing.
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 13 hours ago
Yes indeed!
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 13 hours ago
Once you’ve deconverted, you can’t just reduce your intake of sermons and worship music and feel a lot better. No, you’re much more like a cocaine addict. Do cocaine addicts slowly...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 13 hours ago
How would you steelman the issue Rabbi Tovia raises that Jewish women would never touch/apply spices to a male corpse? What the hell were these Jewish women thinking???
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 14 hours ago
Some internet sources say putrefaction becomes prominent 4 to 10 days after death.
To some species of fly it apparently takes as little as 30 seconds. But then, the...
Debunking Christianity: "How to Become a non-Christian" by James Aames is a Brilliantly Conceived Book! · 14 hours ago