RE: Plagiarism in the NT
July 31, 2017 at 5:40 pm
(This post was last modified: July 31, 2017 at 5:41 pm by SteelCurtain.)
(July 31, 2017 at 5:37 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: Maybe I am being a little over sensitive ever since an AF member wished someone would kill people like me.
If someone said that, I would have voted to action against that person. Wishing someone would kill you is a bit different than saying someone is acting dumb and should be slapped.
(July 31, 2017 at 5:37 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: I think if you look at his prior two posts you'll understand why I took it seriously.
Hmm...
(July 30, 2017 at 12:07 pm)Astonished Wrote: I mean, literally, you don't even need to go to one of the really popular, very well-spoken atheist youtube channels to hear them refute the Aquinas' asinine arguments. How fucking lazy and addled can one be?
(July 30, 2017 at 7:46 pm)Astonished Wrote: So, not sure if I'm missing a contextual clue, but this 'die for a lie' thing, does it imply that these people KNOW it's a lie and just keep on going anyway? Because I doubt anyone who died in a crusade or suicide bombing lacked at least a partial faith-based motivation, if not some other fear-motivated irrational decision-making that led them to that, or if they had some kind of incentive (having their destitute family be provided for in exchange, for example). But if a person's convictions are such that they believe something no matter how implausible, then for fuck's sake, OF COURSE they can be motivated to martyr themselves for it. If a better life beyond this one is what they genuinely believe awaits, and the price is giving this life to serve the needs of its creator, well, that sure as hell seems adequate. The only truly amazing part of it is that no matter what level of social status or education, someone can still fall prey to this lunacy.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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