(February 16, 2014 at 7:00 am)Justtristo Wrote:(February 15, 2014 at 10:33 pm)Chad32 Wrote: The point was likely because this is one of the few ways you can reach out to an audience that may not be as fundie as people like Ken. People like me who just needed to hear things from outside my bubble to get me going towards a more truthful path.
Forgive me I am not from the bible belt of the USA, indeed where I live (Australia) is the total opposite of that part of the world.
Yeah, I was quite sheltered when it came to other beliefs. Sometimes we asked what christmas trees had to do with Jesus' birth, and what rabbits and eggs had to do with his resurrection, but you better believe no one told us it was a holdover from pagan beliefs due to christians trying to convert by integration. Definitely not that there were older stories of people who were born of virgins and rose from the dead three days after being killed.
Over here we have little churches on a dozen corners around town. It's a big part of the community.
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."
10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/
Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50
A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html
10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/
Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50
A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html