Our server costs ~$56 per month to run. Please consider donating or becoming a Patron to help keep the site running. Help us gain new members by following us on Twitter and liking our page on Facebook!
Current time: February 3, 2025, 12:15 am

Thread Rating:
  • 0 Vote(s) - 0 Average
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
David Koresh, God?
#1
David Koresh, God?
18 years after Waco, Davidians believe Koresh was God

(So the ATF killed God?)

http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/04/14/waco.ko...rs/?hpt=tv

Excerpt:

Quote:For more than a decade on every Saturday, the Branch Davidian Sabbath, Sheila Martin and Clive Doyle have gotten together to pray and discuss the Bible. They affirm to each other that David Koresh was God in the flesh. Then, they usually go to lunch or run errands.
'The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and seal. It could not be expressed better.'
-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens

"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".

- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)

"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "

- Dr. Donald Prothero
Reply
#2
RE: David Koresh, God?
He was no less god then Jesus.
Reply
#3
RE: David Koresh, God?
Man's near limitless ability to swallow BS hook, line and sinker.
Our Daily Train blog at jeremystyron.com

---
We have lingered in the chambers of the sea | By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown | Till human voices wake us, and we drown. — T.S. Eliot

"... man always has to decide for himself in the darkness, that he must want beyond what he knows. ..." — Simone de Beauvoir

"As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself—so like a brother, really—I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again." — Albert Camus, "The Stranger"
---
Reply
#4
RE: David Koresh, God?
Christians often use the folklore of early Christian history as "proof" of the claims about Jesus' divinity. Let's put aside the obvious objection that they're using folklore to prove mythology and take the claim at face value. "Would the early disciples of Jesus have been so transformed? Would they have died for a lie? Wouldn't detractors have cried 'false' if the claims weren't true?"

Yes, yes and not necessarily.

The Davidians, who exist and cling to their beliefs in a less superstitious time with better communication and fact-checking capabilities at their disposal, prove it quite reasonable to imagine a scenario where cultists come to believe all kinds of crazy things and would even be willing to die for them.
Atheist Forums Hall of Shame:
"The trinity can be equated to having your cake and eating it too."
...      -Lucent, trying to defend the Trinity concept
"(Yahweh's) actions are good because (Yahweh) is the ultimate standard of goodness. That’s not begging the question"
...       -Statler Waldorf, Christian apologist
Reply



Possibly Related Threads...
Thread Author Replies Views Last Post
  A Good Article on David Fitzgerald's New Book Minimalist 1 1421 April 20, 2017 at 11:21 pm
Last Post: Minimalist
  God is god, and we are not god StoryBook 43 14154 January 6, 2014 at 5:47 pm
Last Post: StoryBook
  David Cross on the subject of The Bible CleanShavenJesus 1 2045 March 26, 2013 at 3:04 pm
Last Post: Baalzebutt
  Did Bethlehem in Judea exist at the time of Jesus and at the time of David Ziploc Surprise 0 2141 January 1, 2013 at 2:24 pm
Last Post: Ziploc Surprise
  God get's angry, Moses changes God's plans of wrath, God regrets "evil" he planned Mystic 9 7311 February 16, 2012 at 8:17 am
Last Post: Strongbad
  If David Lynch was a fundamentalist christian Justtristo 10 3496 September 15, 2011 at 5:49 pm
Last Post: leo-rcc



Users browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)