Christians: Can you see why atheists don't buy this stuff?

[CapnAwesome]

I love M*A*S*H. Best series ever. It's even better than Trek.

Incorrect

[Cyberman]

Heretic!

[vulcanlogician]

I had every episode M*A*S*H, TNG, and DS9 memorized at one point in my life. So they are all pretty special to me.

[Cyberman]

We started collecting the M*A*S*H season releases on DVD as they came out, or as soon as finances allowed
We got to season 7 before, well you know, and I lost the heart to get any more. Later I got myself the 'Martinis and Medicine' boxset, the whole series plus original movie and extras. I've watched them all probably more often than is strictly healthy.

[Silver]

The only M.A.S.H. I ever got into.

[vulcanlogician]

We started collecting the M*A*S*H season releases on DVD as they came out, or as soon as finances allowed
We got to season 7 before, well you know, and I lost the heart to get any more. Later I got myself the 'Martinis and Medicine' boxset, the whole series plus original movie and extras. I've watched them all probably more often than is strictly healthy.

Was it like in this green canvas book thingie? My roomate had that.

Any particular favorite part in the series?

I mean like: Trapper/Blake/Burns -OR- Potter/Hunnicutt/Burns -OR- Potter/Hunnicutt/Winchester

I liked the Trapper episodes and the Winchester ones (basically the very start and very end of the series). If I had to pick one, I think I'd actually go with the Trapper episodes. I didn't quite like Radar's development. He just became too childlike. Burns started to get annoying as the series went on; I thought Winchester was a breath of fresh air. Houlihan's development was awesome though.

[Cyberman]

Yes, green box. One of the prides of my collection.

I don't know if I can pick a favourite, to be honest. I prefer when the series found its feet, after the first few episodes, generally and deservedly held to be the one entitled "Sometimes you hear the bullet". And after season 7-8 there was a reputation for being a bit preachy. But it still holds up amazingly either way. That final episode has me crying like a baby every time.

I love the Henry Blake / Radar dynamic, with the overlapping dialogue and constantly finishing the Colonel's thoughts for him. And yeah, Hotlips' evolution is probably the definitive example of how to write a character - Steven Moffat (actually Chris Chibnall now), please take note. Even what could have been a one note character like Father Mulcahy is a real person, that you can believe exists outside the frame of the series. Basically I love them all.

Oh, and for best effect, never watch with the laugh track on, for it is an abomination.

Not long ago I started watching the pilot for one of the sequel series, AfterM*A*S*H. Yeah.

[LadyForCamus]

Case of mistaken identity, lol.  Mea Culpa.

(did I mention that I'm slamming the whiskey tonight....?)

I was loling over here. 😂

[Jehanne]

RR,

Yours is a dying breed:

Gallup -- Record Few Americans Believe Bible Is Literal Word of God

I would probably answer that the Bible is the inspired word of God, but could see where I could answer literal word as well.   Probably depends on what I feel is their intentions in the question.   And it doesn't surprise me, if this is in decline in the US.   Cultural Christians are falling off and it's becoming less popular in that way.

There are a number of reports that the faithful Christians are growing stronger.  New Harvard Research Says U.S. Christianity Is Not Shrinking, But Growing Stronger Not that my choice is based on popularity.

It is the rise of secularist views on the Bible (the "myths & legends" group) that impresses me.

[vulcanlogician]

I do believe in Biblical inerrancy, however; I am not without error.   Which is where I think that some go wrong. Your video makes me think of the quote from Augustine that “you should never judge a philosophy by it’s abuse”. As well as the academic principle of charity. That is that you should contend with the best possible version of an argument, and not judge an idea by some crazy or extreme adherent.

Yeah, the girl in the video was atypical to be sure. I didn't mean to imply that she epitomizes Christians. Rather, my point was that quite a few Christians I've met in RL have had her level knowledge concerning authorship of the Bible. Hence my use of the word "malinformed." 

Obviously, Christianity (as a personal moral commitment/religious practice) ought not be "judged by its abuse," but at the same time, Christianity is more than that. It is also a cultural phenomenon.

It is this cultural phenomenon called Christianity with which I take issue. And part of this phenomenon is a huge slice of the population being spoon-fed a doctrine... a doctrine which they are encouraged to accept without critical examination. If some girl thinks God wrote the Bible, the people in her church are like "Good. That just lends the Bible more credibility. No need to set her straight." Those people are ultimately responsible for any embarrassment the girl faced on her YouTube channel. And they are also partly responsible if someone whom they misinform becomes disillusioned with Christianity upon discovering the Bible's true authorship (although facts most likely play a part there too  ). Lies are lies, and they work the same way with Christians as they do atheists: short term they help you convince someone of your position; long term they come back and bite you in the ass.