RE: Stupid Arguments
July 25, 2025 at 7:55 am
(This post was last modified: July 25, 2025 at 7:56 am by Fake Messiah.)
Just another comment on the stupid arguments. There is this guy, Wes Huff, who is hailed as the new hope of Christian apologetics; he was even in the Joe Rogan podcast. Recently, he and some other guy were commenting on some atheist who said that Jesus' sacrifice was insignificant because, being immortal, he only sacrificed his weekend.
To which this Wes said how this is like saying that allied soldiers only sacrificed their weekend when they were participating in the D-Day invasion.
Now, to me this was not only stupid but also so disingenuous that, if I were a Christian, I would have left Christianity right that moment. However, Christians are trained not to think about what preachers and apologists are saying but to simply cheer whenever they hear any argument in defense of Christianity.
You cannot compare soldiers who are mortal and Jesus, who is immortal. You can't even compare soldiers sacrifice to, let's say, Wolverine from Marvel comics, who is not immortal but has super healing abilities that his chances of surviving D-Day would be so high that he wouldn't even miss a heartbeat going to that battle, let alone Jesus, who is much more powerful.
To which this Wes said how this is like saying that allied soldiers only sacrificed their weekend when they were participating in the D-Day invasion.
Now, to me this was not only stupid but also so disingenuous that, if I were a Christian, I would have left Christianity right that moment. However, Christians are trained not to think about what preachers and apologists are saying but to simply cheer whenever they hear any argument in defense of Christianity.
You cannot compare soldiers who are mortal and Jesus, who is immortal. You can't even compare soldiers sacrifice to, let's say, Wolverine from Marvel comics, who is not immortal but has super healing abilities that his chances of surviving D-Day would be so high that he wouldn't even miss a heartbeat going to that battle, let alone Jesus, who is much more powerful.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
