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 · 8 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 · 12 hours 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 · 12 hours 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 · 12 hours 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 · 13 hours 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 · 13 hours 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 · 16 hours 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 · 16 hours 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 · 18 hours 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 · 18 hours 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 · 18 hours 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 · 18 hours 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 · 18 hours 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 · 19 hours 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 · 19 hours 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 · 19 hours 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 · 19 hours ago
Yeah, I thought it would be a great strategy for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, whenever they are forced to retreat, to leave easily discoverable stockpiles of vodka for the Russian soldiers to find....
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 1 day ago
Perhaps he finally realized the futility of trying to spread his apologetics in a community much smarter than he is.
I wonder whether stupid people can actually know they...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 1 day ago
Whatever practical reasons there were for banning alcohol...
The reasons Islam banned alcohol had nothing to do with health or social problems at all. It had nothing...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 1 day ago
It's like the way that wildlife near me (deer, coyotes, etc.) use the local bike (multi-use) path as their wildlife corridor. The path goes through some wooded areas, where the animals live,...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 1 day ago
The last two years have demonstrated that AI could be something like Galileo's telescope: a game-changer. Galileo's telescope had a magnifying power of about 30X, revolutionizing...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 1 day ago
We never stayed in touch, so I can't help you there. I will be completing my 77th trip around the sun come September.
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 1 day ago
There are so many problems with 1 Kings 18:20-40, such as how did Elijah know that just this one time, God was going to come through with the needed miracle? Presumably there have been countless...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 1 day ago
[Sam] Harris also criticized existing empirical studies for limiting themselves to prayers for relatively unmiraculous events, such as recovery from heart surgery. He suggested a simple...
Debunking Christianity: The Best Cure for Christianity Is Reading the Bible, Essay No. 1 · 1 day ago