Jesus did not rise from the dead -- My debate opening statement.

[Pat Mustard]

I seriously hope you didn't post that link for my benefit. Lol.

For that matter, I hope you didn't post it for Drich's sake -- unless you are prepared to go down the exegetical rabbit hole with him for the next 40 pages.

I gave at the fucking office.

Christian Biblical literalism has been falsified; it is time for that portion of the human race that had embraced that fantasy, either through birth, the result of marriage or intellectual laziness and other shortcomings to move on.

Pratchett, Stewart and Cohen gave a very good explanation of why biblical literalists are still around, basically stating that once one accepts the scientific worldview and everything it has discovered you have to remove so much from the bible that the whole thing falls apart. They gave fundies credit on that aspect of their religion (alone) the realisation that more modernist versions of christianity (such as catholicism or anglicanism) fail to grasp; that accepting reality to any extent makes being christian a joke.