Pious Fraud or Lying for Jesus. Someone might argue, "If my falsehood enhances God's truthfulness and so increases his glory, why am I still condemned as a sinner?"...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 7 · 7 minutes ago
Then again, I'm just an old crank with a bad attitude.
I'm Spartacus!
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 7 · 1 hour ago
Even "legally" there is such a thing as "fraud by omission" in the US and probably every other Western country. If this had happened in my old village of a few decades ago, the...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 7 · 10 hours ago
Modern humans have known about the germ theory of disease for some time now, so that's one of the omissions in the bible that stands out. Today of course we have newer risks, some of them...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 7 · 10 hours ago
Was it illegal to keep mum about the treasure and then buy the field? I am reminded of a former friend, a very right-wing Catholic, who said, "Sometimes legalism works in your favor."
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 7 · 10 hours ago
Germs weren't as big a problem before agriculture permitted humans to begin living in large numbers and high densities in settled communities. For most of human (pre)history, life for most...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 7 · 10 hours ago
It may be because I didn’t grow up Christian and had already been an atheist for almost twenty years when I read the Bible for the first time, but many things were immediately crystal clear to me:...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 7 · 12 hours ago
My reply to Turek would be to first prove what it was that he believes Jesus taught, since he wrote nothing himself and his very existence is in question. Second, what evidence of the resurrection?...
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 13 hours ago
And I still go through the motions of trying to do my bit. I watched a documentary last night and found out another disturbing fact. Around 20% of worldwide human calorie foodstuff intake, is rice....
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 21 hours ago
Evolutionary speaking, the child that has had the most resources investment put in, i.e. the eldest. Would be the pragmatic decision. The more likely vehicle for passing on genes. But of course...
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 22 hours ago
Turek would counter that Christianity should be judged based on what Jesus actually taught and what the evidence for his resurrection shows, not how Christians actually are. How they actually are...
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 1 day ago
Is this supposed to be some sort of defense of Christianity? I must say it's pretty pathetic. It is a known fact that in order for one to be a "true" Christian he/she must possess...
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 1 day ago
A more painful example of moral conundrum is the mother of two small children hiking in the woods. Two bears come up. One attacks her son (4), the other attacks her daughter (5). The bears are 50...
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 1 day ago
You can get lost down in the weeds of trying to debate what actually went down, but my primitive brain asks, "What kind of God would leave the most important message imaginable to...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 7 · 1 day ago
And Frank Turek would say, with great dramatic flair: "You can't judge a religion by its abuse".
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 1 day ago
It seems so hopeless, as if all we can do is extend life as we know it. But then, that seems to be our fate either way.
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 1 day ago
The parable of the Greatest teacher One day Jesus called his disciples to him. He asked they bring with them all those who could read and write, all those who could faithfully record history. When...
Debunking Christianity: Honest Sermons on the Gospel of Mark: Chapter 7 · 1 day ago
One of the biggest "mass murderers" on the planet at the moment, on a number of different levels, including climate change, is that useless orange fucker sitting at the...
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 1 day ago
4. If suffering is necessary for building our souls, what then of technology that reduces suffering? Do modern surgical patients remain stunted in terms of soul development since...
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 1 day ago
Good stuff!
Debunking Christianity: BIBLICAL MIRACLES UNDER THE TEST OF REASON · 1 day ago
As Richard Feynman said, "There is no one easier to fool than yourself." Truth rarely means much in religion. People want to be told what they want to hear, and they tend to shop around for...
Debunking Christianity: Is There Such a Thing as “Theological Humility”? · 2 days ago
I think people perform a subconscious operation of self-gaslighting in order to accept the belief pushed on them by their society. Once they do that, they become ready to reject the most basic...
Debunking Christianity: Is There Such a Thing as “Theological Humility”? · 2 days ago
When you weigh the enormous range of things in which it is possible to have faith against objective evidence with is all but non-existent, then what ever a person has faith in is almost certainly...
Debunking Christianity: Is There Such a Thing as “Theological Humility”? · 2 days ago
The point here, is when you reduce folk to the equivalent of a murderer for not recycling plastic, when doing so is a complete waste of their time, you are hardly likely to win anyone over....
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 2 days ago
But climate change presents anyone who has money with an opportunity to commit a perfect crime.
It's not a "perfect crime" until it first becomes a crime....
Debunking Christianity: New Chapter: The Emotional Problem of Evil · 2 days ago