RE: Christians. Could you be wrong?
August 5, 2014 at 8:38 pm
(This post was last modified: August 5, 2014 at 8:42 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(August 5, 2014 at 8:18 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: Hows this for critical thought. If I were to see a video for instance of a police officer robbing a bank, you're saying I am to conclude that all police officers are criminals?
This is an inapt comparison. Bank robberies are mundane things that do not require miracles. Faith healings, however, require miracles that are divorced from physical causes. Because of that, I am comfortable pointing out that faith healers have continually been dubunked (not just Christian faith-healers) and suggesting that a skeptical mindset would serve the thinking person better.
I can underestand your discomfort at my point, but your objection, being irrelevant, will be disregarded.
(August 5, 2014 at 8:18 pm)Huggy74 Wrote:(August 5, 2014 at 7:42 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: So what you're telling me is that a guy who is coversant in the Bible, and has probably read Luke, reports the same symptoms as Jesus and you take that as evidence?No, but eyewitness testimony is accepted as evidence, would you like to see some?
As anyone who has taken Psychology 101 knows, eyewitness testimony is some of the least-reliable evidence around. Rather than that, I'd prefer to see medical records of the "healed", both before and after the alleged healing.
What you got for that?
(August 5, 2014 at 8:37 pm)Minimalist Wrote: They can call it the asshole of christ for all I care.
They may rin into an intellectual-property suit from this guy; he's the One True Asshole of Christ:
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