(December 28, 2015 at 11:49 am)Drich Wrote: at the end of this you feel that 'mainstream egyptologists' have been out right ignorant or lying to you. Makes you wonder how many other fields of 'advanced study/learning' is also flat out lying.
So in the space of two sentences we go from "ignorant or lying" to "flat out lying. That's cute. I doubt you spend much time wondering which other fields of advanced study/learning are also conspiracies of lies to gull the faithless and mislead God's warriors, so let's have it. Please inform me which other fields of academic human endeavor you see fit to pronounce upon without a minute's training in the relevant disciplines.
Sometimes I have trouble deciding which is more breath-taking: your arrogance or the degree of your anti-intellectualism.
Serious question: if the case made in this film is so compelling, why is it buried in a documentary that was shown in a relative handful of church basements rather than hashed out in the appropriate peer-reviewed journals? And don't give me any of the standard-issue fundie crap about how believers' ideas are shut out of the academy. If there is a real case to be made within the relevant academic disciplines, there is a way to go about it, and pandering to groups of people who are desperate to have their approach to Biblical historicity confirmed is not that way.
Quote:It kinda makes you guys look like the Germans who bought Hitler's propaganda hook line and sinker. Kinda gives some incite as to how easy it was for basically a 'good' person to get swallowed up into a propaganda machine.
Leaving aside from your demonstrated love of Godwin, even when it is entirely irrelevant (as here), I can only shake my head in amazement that someone could hoist so much unintended irony into two sentences without a crane.