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Debunking the "Dying and Rising Gods" Theory
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 RE: Debunking the "Dying and Rising Gods" Theory
September 21, 2015 at 4:44 pm
(This post was last modified: September 21, 2015 at 4:44 pm by Homeless Nutter.)
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
  (September 21, 2015 at 4:41 pm)rexbeccarox Wrote:(September 21, 2015 at 4:26 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: Oh, look! Another thread in which rexbeccarox fails to deal with the argument preferring to attack the man instead. Color me... Yet another ad hominem. Color me... ...confirmed in what I said about your empty posts.  (September 21, 2015 at 5:01 pm)Randy Carson Wrote:(September 21, 2015 at 4:41 pm)rexbeccarox Wrote: Which man? You? Or the guy actually making the argument? Curious definition of an ad hominem. Questioning you copy pasting one author quoting another author from a collection of essays he wrote in 1988 and selling it as an absolute is an ad hominem now? Curious indeed, but whatever rocks your boat. ![[Image: Bumper+Sticker+-+Asheville+-+Praise+Dog3.JPG]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=1.bp.blogspot.com%2F-d-3rfdI7nG0%2FTerwtFyFXoI%2FAAAAAAAACak%2F7kFSmHeVrng%2Fs320%2FBumper%2BSticker%2B-%2BAsheville%2B-%2BPraise%2BDog3.JPG)
RE: Debunking the "Dying and Rising Gods" Theory
September 21, 2015 at 5:13 pm
(This post was last modified: September 21, 2015 at 5:14 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(September 21, 2015 at 4:44 pm)Homeless Nutter Wrote: Oh, well - whatever keeps you occupied... ...rather than bombing abortion clinics, the "protestant" bar down the street...... or impoverishing african nations at random while cultivating horrible diseases like they were turnips in a field of misery. I couldn't help it..lol.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
 (September 21, 2015 at 5:03 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: In the end, the only position still standing is the one the Church has been holding for 2,000 years. "The belief that a cosmic Jewish zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree..." That position? 
I'm not surprised that the Lord would prepare the pagan world for His Advent by foreshadowing His arrival.
RE: Debunking the "Dying and Rising Gods" Theory
September 21, 2015 at 5:18 pm
(This post was last modified: September 21, 2015 at 5:21 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Are you similarly un-surprised that the effect of this "foreshadowing" would be ruinous for centuries after the fact - that even after having eradicated pagan competition...that absent the usual targets, the pious host of christ would turn on themselves and cannibalize the remainder? That the kind of practical jokes god gets up to when he's bored? That a show of his competence or intentions?
What -would- surprise you..I wonder........given your apparently high tolerance for the unexpected.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
(September 21, 2015 at 5:09 pm)abaris Wrote:(September 21, 2015 at 5:01 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: Yet another ad hominem. Color me... The ad hominem was implicit. Rather than deal with the argument itself, rex chose to take another shot at me (that's the ad hominem) by suggesting that my quoting someone else is a problem. It isn't. It's expert testimony that supports my position. |
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